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kipple
Kipple is a word coined by the remarkable science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It refers to the sinister type of rubbish which simply builds up without any human intervention. Eventually, one day, the entire world will have moved to a state of kipplization.
From Phil Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
JR - Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.
Pris- I see.
JR - There's the First Law of Kipple, "Kipple drives out nonkipple." Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple.
Pris - So it has taken over completely. Now I understand.
JR - Your place, here, this apartment you've picked - it's too kipple-ized to live in. We can roll the kipple-factor back; we can do like I said, raid the other apartments. But -
Pris - But what?
JR - We can't win.
Pris - Why not?
JR - No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.
JR - Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.
Pris- I see.
JR - There's the First Law of Kipple, "Kipple drives out nonkipple." Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple.
Pris - So it has taken over completely. Now I understand.
JR - Your place, here, this apartment you've picked - it's too kipple-ized to live in. We can roll the kipple-factor back; we can do like I said, raid the other apartments. But -
Pris - But what?
JR - We can't win.
Pris - Why not?
JR - No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.
Related Words
kipple factor
The chaos in a closed environment (eg bedroom) as defined by the size of objects that tend to disappear spontaneously.
Dude 1: I can't find my keys, I swear I left them somwhere here.
Dude 2: I guess the kipple factor in this room is 3 inches.
Dude 2: I guess the kipple factor in this room is 3 inches.
kipple factor by Vipul Ved Prakash November 17, 2003
kypples
Excessively hard nipples, to the point of possibly poking a whole through one's shirt. Can be possessed by males or females. Usually brought on by the cold and often during very inappropriate times. Can be spotted from distances of up to 20 ft, even through a ribbed sweater tee
Guy#1: Wow, it is extremely cold out here.
OH WISE ONE: You're not kidding...I can see your kypples. Very impressive.
Guy#1: Thank you.
OH WISE ONE: You're not kidding...I can see your kypples. Very impressive.
Guy#1: Thank you.
kypples by The Daring Definer May 12, 2009
puttens and kippies
puttens and kippies by redhood December 6, 2009
Kippes
Kippes is all mine
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