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Operation Mindfuck: Name the Parts Please for Intermittens 7

Started by Sheered Völva, February 09, 2009, 04:54:09 AM

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Sheered Völva

I didn't know where to post this thread on this site.  I want as much input as possible, so am posting this on several Discordian sites and on a public board here.

One thing I want for Intermittens 7 Operation Mindfuck ( see http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=19605.0 for more including my contact info) is a list of all the commonly known OMs (don't want to give away any secret ones that are still in progress--remember, this is a public board).  I put the name of the OM, a very brief and very crappy description just so you have some idea what I'm talking about, and who I think began it and when I think it began.

Please put your additions and corrections in this thread. Thanks.

Anti-Protests (absurd protests, such as picketing a movie theatre because they don't show porno): begun by ????? and began when?
Book Om or Bookgasm (sneaking Discordian books into jails, prisons, libraries): Eccentric Discordians in 2007
Colbertgasm (getting Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to publicly say something about Discordia/Illuminati): who began it in 2008?
Culture Jamming (anti-commercialism movement): Negativeland (based on JAMs or The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, which became a real band name) (don't remember when it began, but can probably look it up)
Erister Egg Hunt or EggGASM: Pinky McFatFat (simultaneously named Erister Egg Hunt by Mythics of Harmonia and EggGASM by Professor Cramulus) began in March 2008
Flash Mobbing (group appears from nowhere for some odd purpose, then suddenly disappears): Bill Wasik in 2003
Gasm Gasm (what exactly is this?): ?????
Guerilla Communication (shifting focus in public place by odd or extreme actions such as city council meeting, public bus, etc.): who began it and when?
H2O Jake/Dihydrogen Monoxide Hoax (convincing people water is dangerous by calling it something else): Al Franken (Saturday Night Live), Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman, et al. (I can get the dates on this, but does anybody know when the SNL bit aired?)
Honorary Membership (in non-existent groups, then having people talk about the group in the hearing of the recipient): Malaclypse the Younger began when?
The Jake That Changed A World (got Planet X named Eris): Professor Mu-Chao (I can get the date on this)
Mileygasm (naming Disney Princesses who blow their innocent image as Discordian American Princesses): Pope Hilde and ????? (Discordian American Princess created by ?????) began in 2008
Omgasm (Operation Mindfuck: Golden Apple Seed Mission): Professor Cramulus? Began when?
Om Parades (weird parades like Discordians for Jesus, Unregistered Sex Offenders, something by St. Mae--Cacophony?): ????? and began when?
Operation Mindfuck (if you're here and don't know what this is, I won't tell you): Ho Chi Zen (Kerry Thornley) and ?????, named by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea?  Began when?
Postergasm (this was called something else by the original Discordians--anybody know what?): Professor Cramulus (modern) revived it when? And who did original and when?
Project Jake (send a bureaucrat lots of weird letters on a topic): Harold Lord Randomfactor
Project Pan-Pontification (handing out Pope cards): (Original Discordians, but which ones?)
Rubber Stamp (stamping official mail "See Mental Health Records" and returning it): Dr. Mordecai Malignatus began this when?

Golden Applesauce

Gasm-Gasm is the acquisition of new people to participate in OMgasm.
Q: How regularly do you hire 8th graders?
A: We have hired a number of FORMER 8th graders.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

I managed to find a site at one point with scans of early jake documents. Perhaps that may be illuminating.


... Assuming I can find it again. But I'll take a look.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Triple Zero

Quote from: Two Frame Animation on February 09, 2009, 06:11:15 AM
Gasm-Gasm is the acquisition of new people to participate in OMgasm.

and GASMGASMGASM is a GASM to promote the GASMGASM. (Spread the word)

also, and this is off-topic in this thread, but if there's a short answer fot his, you have a nice short piece of text to put in IM#7, someone (I think Cram) mentioned "always busy" numbers, which can be highly practical for publicity jakes, that you don't really want to answer press questions about, but still appear legit, or at least hold up the pretense for a while. QUESTION: does anyone know of an easy (or mildly hard) way to find numbers like this for a certain area code? you can easily get three paragraphs of short info blurb out of that and it's useful knowledge and short bits like that nicely fill up a page layuout.
Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

INFORMATION SO POWERFUL, YOU ACTUALLY NEED LESS.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

The easiest way would be to buy an extra phone line and plug in a phone that's perpetually off the hook (I dunno if not having a phone connected at all would give you a busy or an arbitrary number of rings). Maybe the modern update to that is to get a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone and keep it off perpetually.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Triple Zero

Quote from: Enki-][ on February 11, 2009, 05:17:48 PM
The easiest way would be to buy an extra phone line and plug in a phone that's perpetually off the hook (I dunno if not having a phone connected at all would give you a busy or an arbitrary number of rings). Maybe the modern update to that is to get a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone and keep it off perpetually.

yes but i thought the point of using some random always-busy number in a certain area code that you can suggest presence in that area without it actually being traceable to you.

Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

INFORMATION SO POWERFUL, YOU ACTUALLY NEED LESS.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

I was entirely unaware of the concept until you brought it up in the other thread. Or whoever brought it up.

Make it an unlisted number and nobody outside of the phone company will be able to backtrace it.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Cramulus

Yeah, "always busy" numbers are an oldskool phreak resource. Unfortunately there's no known central list of all these numbers, so it's hard to suggest how to find one. I found a bunch by searching for "always busy" numbers, but if there's a better term for that type of line, I'm sure it would reveal more.

Quote from: Enki-][ on February 11, 2009, 05:17:48 PM
The easiest way would be to buy an extra phone line and plug in a phone that's perpetually off the hook (I dunno if not having a phone connected at all would give you a busy or an arbitrary number of rings). Maybe the modern update to that is to get a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone and keep it off perpetually.

that actually sounds kind of costly and effort-intensive. And after about ten minutes of leaving a phone off the hook, it'll disconnect.

Sheered Völva

Always busy numbers would be great for a bit of filler, if someone knows how to find them.  I'll do an Internet search.

I know you can get a second phone line and simply never hook it up to a phone.  I learned that back in the day when lots of people had dial internet connections--a friend had one line for the phone, another for the Internet.  But that gives you a perpectual ring on the Internet line, I think, unless you're online, in which case I believe it gives you a busy signal.  You could do that now and leave that line on the Internet at all times, but it would mean paying for a second line.

the last yatto

a jake roster would be nice

more so if you have it ready by fools day
Look, asshole:  Your 'incomprehensible' act, your word-salad, your pinealism...It BORES ME.  I've been incomprehensible for so long, I TEACH IT TO MBA CANDIDATES.  So if you simply MUST talk about your pineal gland or happy children dancing in the wildflowers, go talk to Roger, because he digs that kind of shit

Rococo Modem Basilisk

Why don't we give out that always-busy number that we found in association with Shine Your Light (who apparently 'owns' intermittens) :P.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

LMNO

Surprisingly, Enki has come up with an Amazingly Good Idea.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

Quote from: LMNO on February 12, 2009, 06:34:37 PM
Surprisingly, Enki has come up with an Amazingly Good Idea.

It happens on occasion. I blame society.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Sheered Völva

Quote from: Enki-][ on February 12, 2009, 06:28:38 PM
Why don't we give out that always-busy number that we found in association with Shine Your Light (who apparently 'owns' intermittens) :P.

Done.