A musical work composed by American experimental composer John Cage in 1952. Made up of 3 movements, it is comprised solely of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence. However in performance, the work is supposed to capture unintentional sounds such as audience whispers, coughs etc. It challenges the very definition of music.
Pretentious people claim to like it.
Art student: John Cage's 4'33'' is so compelling and thought provoking. It makes those students at the conservatorium look like a bunch of show-offs. They just don't appreciate the sound of silence.
Sane man: You're a twat.
by HumphreyB May 08, 2006
Train conductor: Passengers for the Ipswich, Beenleigh and Gold Coast lines, please detrain at Central. Make sure you collect all of your belongings before detraining. Thank you.
Passenger: WTF!?!?
by HumphreyB April 19, 2006
Train conductor: Passengers for the Ipswich, Beenleigh and Gold Coast lines, please detrain at Central. Make sure you collect all of your belongings before detraining. Thank you.
Passenger: WTF!?!?
by HumphreyB May 02, 2006
A trippy 70's computer programming language that uses recursion like a motherfucker. It is a logical programming language designed for expressing human logic instead of specific machine instructions. Unlike procedural languages such as C, it has very little practical use outside of a university environment.
Uni student #1: Holy shit. Recursively manipulating lists in Prolog is totally screwing with my head! Btw, why the fuck is my program stuck in a loop?
Uni student #2: You've got to create a base case for your predicate. Otherwise it just backtracks up the list and down again.
Uni student #1: Thanks. Fuck. I don't know if I'm gonna pass this course.
Uni student #2: Don't worry. It's not as if this shit is useful anyway.
by HumphreyB May 03, 2006
by HumphreyB May 03, 2006
by HumphreyB May 03, 2006
by HumphreyB May 03, 2006