To rhyme with "theme," I believe. I am fairly certain the common internet usage is a bastardization of the original definition, which has more to do with the cultural equivalent of genes—transmissable packets of information; technologies, melodies, superstitions—than with humorous questionnaires, but that's language for you.
1. Because I only now found out you have a livejournal.
2. The Devil’s Interval's "Studying Economy."
3. You have the talent of making anecdotes about your life into full-fledged performances of storytelling, even casually, which I prize.
4. You pointed to a lengthily incomprehensible acronym of a sign over the inner lintel of the restaurant's door and said, "If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a drink?"
5. Vir Cotto, from Babylon 5 (1994—1998).
6. If you left Catholicism (if one can leave Catholicism), toward what other faith, if any, would you gravitate?
7. I had actually been meaning to ask what yours is . . .
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To rhyme with "theme," I believe. I am fairly certain the common internet usage is a bastardization of the original definition, which has more to do with the cultural equivalent of genes—transmissable packets of information; technologies, melodies, superstitions—than with humorous questionnaires, but that's language for you.
1. Because I only now found out you have a livejournal.
2. The Devil’s Interval's "Studying Economy."
3. You have the talent of making anecdotes about your life into full-fledged performances of storytelling, even casually, which I prize.
4. You pointed to a lengthily incomprehensible acronym of a sign over the inner lintel of the restaurant's door and said, "If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a drink?"
5. Vir Cotto, from Babylon 5 (1994—1998).
6. If you left Catholicism (if one can leave Catholicism), toward what other faith, if any, would you gravitate?
7. I had actually been meaning to ask what yours is . . .