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I hesitate to explain my e-name because it is much too clever.
No one likes a smart-ass, nor do I.
No matter; I hereby purge my self-satisfied ego and hereby confess and render my sin incarnate...
Amemeba (that's me}
Ameba: A basic individual entity of biological life.
Meme: A basic unit of cultural input contributing towards the whole.
See? I recognize that the two are one in the same...aren't I clever? :)
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Love it. That's awfully clever, really. I'd worked out the ameba part but hadn't come to your glorious conclusion, since I was mentally pronouncing it with four syllables. Now let's go outside and discuss your expression one in the same. It works; it's very southern and to the point, but for the moment it ain't right.
welcome back
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So right you really are, AnnaStrophic. I can't explain it; I just know what it means. Maybe it's Edgar Poe's fault... Like a circle that ever returneth to the self-same spot,
And more of madness, and horror, the soul of the plot.But wait! We have here a classic example of a meme in action. First comes nuance then comes meaning. Be kind to idioms. Idioms are people too. 
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I always thought it was "one and the same" - usually elided to "one an' the same"
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"one and the same" - usually elidedYup. We Southerners do a lotta elidin.
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I always, here in Florida where only a few of us are really southerners, had heard "one and the same"--a friend some years ago said she read "one in the same" in a british novel, and after consideration, thought it made sense and might show a slight philosophic divergence between US and English english. I just thought it didn't make as much sense.
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...makes sense philosophically in the same fashion that the what's the difference between a duck riddle makes sense philosophically.
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In two me's or not into me?
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What in Samemeba you talkin' about?
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Samemeba is right next to Tarnation.
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