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[Icingsugar]

THis is the 88887 th post on the Hangout.

Who will have the honor?

Oh, my, gawd, what a pointless thread....

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I think it was perdita

 

[Guest]

? ?

 

[Icingsugar]

Indeed. Diploma is on the way. Now, let's close and forget this disgrace of a thread.

Or at lest have it hijacked for something useful.

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Dita, your latest post in the "political" thread was number 88888 ever in the AH. Pointless knowledge, but I'm in a pretty pointless mood at the moment. Too much Old English cider.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'd be overjoyed to partake in the hijack, but I need to think about exquisite corpses now.

 

[Icingsugar]

I'd be overjoyed to partake in the hijack, but I need to think about exquisite corpses now.

Oh, and if ppl were'nr confued already, they will be after that post.

 

[Guest]

Cakesven, how did you know the no. of the post? Also, I am often grateful for silly or pointless threads.

You're the best

Perdita

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I presume he has this forum subscribed, so the details show in his Control Panel. They do on mine.

 

[Guest]

Oh, I see. I don't subscribe to anything, just wander aimlessly here.

Perdita

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Oh, and if ppl were'nr confued already, they will be after that post.

Clarity is overrated anyway. Life is caos.

 

[Icingsugar]

I presume he has this forum subscribed, so the details show in his Control Panel. They do on mine.

Nope. it says so in the Big List O' All Them Forums

 

[Lauren Hynde]

And thus is demonstrated how presumpsions aren't the path to enlightened either.

You're distracting me. I need to think of the mystique of accidental poetry now. Shush.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Shush.

That was a joke, by the way.

 

[shereads]

This thread has gone completely off topic, maybe.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The mind shan't be compartmentalised! The topic is what you make of it. This is a You-topic thread.

 

[A7inchPhildo]

I'd be overjoyed to partake in the hijack, but I need to think about exquisite corpses now.

Just listening to Tom Petty & Heartbreakers

'Mary Jane's last dance' all about an exquisite corpse! Of course Kim Basinger is not really dead --- yet.

she grow up in a indiana town
had a good looking mama who never was around
she grew up tall and she grew up right
with themm indiana boys on a indiana night

well she move down here at the age of 18
she blew the boys away,was more than theyve seen
i was introduced and we both started groovin
i sad i dig you baby but i got to keep movin'
on (keep movin'on)

refrain: Last dance with mary jane
One more tome to kill the pain
I feel something creepin'in
i'm tired of this town again

well i don't know what i've been told
you never slow down, you never grow old
tired of screwin'up, tired of going down
tired of my self, tired of this town
oh my my, oh hell yes
honey put on that partydress
buy me a drink sing me a song
take as i come, 'cause i can't stay long

refrain:

there are pigious down on the market square
she's standing in her underwear
looking down from a hotelroom
nightfall will be coming soon
oh my my, oh hell yesyou got to put on that party dress
it was to cold to try when i woke up alone
i hit last number and i walk to road

Refrain:

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . I need to think of the mystique of accidental poetry now. . .

I'm into the "found art" school of urban surveillance photography.

 

[Boxlicker101]

This thread has gone completely off topic, maybe.

I certainly hope so. It was one of the stupidest topics I have ever seen, and that is going some. Now, quit trying to get it back on topic.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Exquisite Corpse

If I may interject in this intellectually exciting post , I would like to point out that in an Art 187 class I took this past semester, we learned about and even drew some "exquisite corpses". A Surrealist named Max Ernst came up with the idea of the "exquisite corpse" as a sort of parlor game, in which people at a party would take turns drawing a body part on a folded piece of paper. After he/she drew the part, they would then fold the paper again and pass it to the next person, who would draw another body part at random. After the paper was passed to everyone at the party, someone would stand and unfold the paper, showing an odd combination of body parts, or an "exquisite corpse". The game was based on the Surrealists' belief in chance and the unconscious helping to create art.

I'm a noob, but I thought I would share some interesting info about the topic. By the way, this is a fun thread!

 

[Guest]

Hey, Raoul, I'm impressed. Welcome,

Perdita

Exquisite Corpse

 

[shereads]

Re: Exquisite Corpse

A Surrealist named Max Ernst came up with the idea of the "exquisite corpse" as a sort of parlor game, in which people at a party would take turns drawing a body part on a folded piece of paper. After he/she drew the part, they would then fold the paper again and pass it to the next person, who would draw another body part at random. After the paper was passed to everyone at the party, someone would stand and unfold the paper, showing an odd combination of body parts, or an "exquisite corpse".

I wonder why Parker Brothers never marketed this one?


Welcome, Raoul or "Uncle" Duke. (Doonesbury? Baby Doc College of Physicians?)

Here's the ritual newbie welcome, a tradition from the islands: the banana dance.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Thanks Perdita and Shereads-
Not sure why Parker Bros didn't pick up on that one. Our art professor didn't say whether or not the party-goers were drunk when they played the game, but I can imagine that it would be a lot funnier when intoxicated. Heck, everything except driving and sex are more fun when drunk.

p.s.- I took my screen name from Johnny Depp's hilarious, drug-addled character in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

 

[shereads]

p.s.- I took my screen name from Johnny Depp's hilarious, drug-addled character in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

JOHNNY DEPP's character? Die, heretic! Kill, scorn the heretic!

Raoul Duke is also the name of a character in Doonesbury (the oft-banned comic strip) who looks like and is named after Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." That's one of my favorite books of all time, if ony for the first chapter which has some of the funniest passages about the drug culture ever to make someone cough chocolate milk through her nose.

Fear/Loathing may be the funniest book ever written by a former drug user who once ran for sheriff of Aspen. It's definitely the funniest bit of nostalgia for anybody who once did drugs.

Back in pioneer days, that is. When it was, um...legal. Yes, legal and harmless.

Johnny Depp indeed. Hunter Thompson would landmine your living room if he heard that you credited an upstar actor with the creation of the godlike Raoul Duke.



No more bananas for you until you read Fear & Loathing.

 

[Gary Chambers]

Evening all. Topic police here, just thought you ought to know this is post 89009. Assume you've pointed a designated driver BTW. Now if you'll excuse me we've had a complaint about a gang of necrophiliac architects conducting panty raids at the local mortuary. Must be off.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Sorry Shereads

I apologize,
I misspoke. I didn't mean that Johnny Depp created the character of Raoul Duke. I knew that Hunter S. Thompson created Raoul Duke, but I wasn't aware of the Doonesbury character. I have tried on two different occasions to read excerpts from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", but I couldn't follow Mr. Thompson's writing. Call me a heretic if you must, but I meant no disrespect to either you or Hunter. Judging by photos of Hunter S. Thompson compared to Johnny Depp's portrayal of Raoul Duke, they look very similar. Can we just agree that Hunter S. Thompson is a genius, and Johnny Depp brought Raoul Duke to life as Mr. Thompson would have liked?