The art of removing words from a sentence (or a sentence from a paragraph) to change its context completely. Used commonly in movie posters when a film critic in their review has said something uncomplimentary. Also known as "false attribution" and is related closely to "quotation mining".
A movie or theatre critic may have reviewed the piece saying "The whole thing was a terrific bore, I laughed out loud at the ineptitude of the actors..."
The contextomy on the poster would then read: "Terrific! I laughed out loud!"
The contextomy on the poster would then read: "Terrific! I laughed out loud!"
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2.performing acts of randomness that is difficult to notice as it is performed very quickly, and is undetectable as the person(s), contain there laughter, no matter how extreme the humour
2.performing acts of randomness that is difficult to notice as it is performed very quickly, and is undetectable as the person(s), contain there laughter, no matter how extreme the humour
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