- Number of trackback pings: 18
- Number of links spotted by Technorati: 19
- Number of people who mutated meme by leaving fifth sentences sans instructions in comments rather than posting to their own journal: 67 (hereabouts)
- Languages spotted: English, Italian, French, German, Swedish
- Number of people who mistakenly ascribed this blog as the originator of the meme: 8
(But I lost count. I gacked it from Elkins. She plucked it with some mutation from the Happy Potterer. And so on. A zygote is just a meme’s way of making another meme.)
- Amount traffic jumped once meme was Memepooled: 488%
- Number of short fiction pieces written incorporating fifth sentences from other people’s posts: 1
- Number of maps of meme transmission: 1
- Number of mimetic autopsies performed: 1
—Filed 7730 days ago to Indulgences.
You missed me, you missed me
Nanny-nanny boo boo
You can't blame us for being inept or too lazy to post on our own sites.. Sometimes it's just easier to concentrate all of the knowledge in one spot, and I guess that happened to be you. ;)
Heck, I'm not blaming you; it's a mutation. Seems to be quite a viable one, too: a lot of these meme-posts out there have accreted their own fifth-sentence comments threads.
I've noticed a new mutation popping up on LiveJournal -- take the 5th sentence from your 23rd post...