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sig virus
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n. A parasitic meme embedded in a sig block. There was a meme plague or fad
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for these on Usenet in late 1991. Most were equivalents of I am a . sig
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virus. Please reproduce me in your. sig block.. Of course, the. sig virus's
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memetic hook is the giggle value of going along with the gag; this, however,
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was a self-limiting phenomenon as more and more people picked up on the
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idea. There were creative variants on it; some people stuck sig virus
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antibody texts in their sigs, and there was at least one instance of a sig
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virus eater.
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