A type of prank or social psychology experiment. The prankster or experimenter acts out a false authority to induce nearby unsuspecting subjects to go along with one or more pointless activities.
In The Illuminatus Trilogy (novels by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea), character Simon Moon carries out a Bavarian fire-drill.
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Scholars in the 23rd century examining the follies of the 21st century will have a whole sub-discipline called Palintology.
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Get the webcam dance video mug.Tetragrammaton -- The formula by which a vicious demonic desert blood-god of the ancient semites identified itself to Moses. It must truly have been terrifying to be a people 'Chosen' for special attention by such a monstrous entity, as the woeful narrative of the Old Testament makes clear.
The ancient provenance of YHVH is either a storm-god or a god of destruction and fire, with a taste for blood and sacrifice.
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As practiced in modern times, poetry is a discredited means of (supposedly) communicating aesthetic thoughts or feelings in verbal form. Thousands, perhaps millions of person-hours, disc/server space, and trees are wasted to develop and store this tripe.
"Award winning" poetry is usually the worst kind, representing the vilest outcome of combining incestuous art-cronyism with self-indulgent self-promotion.
2. A complete waste of time.
As practiced in modern times, poetry is a discredited means of (supposedly) communicating aesthetic thoughts or feelings in verbal form. Thousands, perhaps millions of person-hours, disc/server space, and trees are wasted to develop and store this tripe.
"Award winning" poetry is usually the worst kind, representing the vilest outcome of combining incestuous art-cronyism with self-indulgent self-promotion.
2. A complete waste of time.
1. Bob is nearly finished with his english degree, but he still needs a credit in poetry of the twentieth century.
2.
Small trees that shine
out of watery depths
With broken limbs, like
Becky are
Not why I write.
2.
Small trees that shine
out of watery depths
With broken limbs, like
Becky are
Not why I write.
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