Meme's

Since I posted about the stuff I miss from being a child that Cheryl put me up for I kept meaning to Google (oops is that an advert? I must say for balance that other search engines are available, but the fact I have to use google to find them defeats the object somewhat) the word to find out what it actually meant, but you know how it is, things, annoying things get in the way of blogging, like work, kids, sleep.
So thank goodness for Doris over @ grans on bran who has done all the work for me,this is the definition she found

Pronounced: `meem

What is a meme? A meme is an idea, or a particular way of thinking about what an idea is. A meme is a unit of mental information in the same way that a gene is a unit of biological information -- a metaphor of an idea as a transposon, a pattern of thought as a virus, a knowledge structure as a chromosome.

Memes compete to spread their information though a social population in the same ways genes compete to spread their information content through a biological population.

from http://www.meme.com/memedef/

Ok so is that all clear now? No me either but at least we tried and please dont complain to me it was Doris's definition ;o)