Okay, I may still be prime newb meat, but I've seen you Elder Ones say "someone has to write that damn Lollercaust already" too many times.
Let's brainstorm.
Cram posted in another thread that he will post some materials later today.
Did anyone else have some more specific ideas for this pamphlet, Way Back When?
it's supposed to be:
- so funny my sides hurt
- laugh till i cry
- i can't tell whether i'm laughing or screaming HYSTERICALLY
- with extra horrible troofpaste
i should be the more surface happy counterpart to the BIP pamphlet.
maybe look at it like this:
- on the surface, the BIP pamphlet looks pretty gloomy, but if you look carefully, its message is in fact an invitation to a Jailbreak, a message of hope, somehow.
- on the surface, the Lollercaust should look funny happy joyjoyjoyjoyjoy go lucky, but looking deeper, you will notice you can't quite tell the maniacal laughter anymore from the hysterical screams and the crazy cries of confusion
is this a plan?
Cramulus posted several ideas for "Robot Revolution" as a theme for Lollercaust... but we night be ahead to scour a lot of the archives here at PD for material. I know that I've posted random things that might be good for a Lollercaust, others have as well.
I think it boils down to this question: Do we want to Write Lollercaust, or should Lollercaust be a anthology of the more LULZY posts at PD.com?
Probably a mix of the two, which from what I remember the BIP was. I know a few of the pieces that went into the BIP were in the pd.com archives while some were written specifically for the pamphlet. I have a few things I'd written for Lollercause, mostly marginalia-type material. One way to go would be for individual posters to bump, or at least find, stuff they'd written they think appropriate for Lollercaust, and then pick and choose from there. Then add in new stuff where appropriate/necessary.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on February 18, 2008, 04:33:13 PM
Probably a mix of the two, which from what I remember the BIP was. I know a few of the pieces that went into the BIP were in the pd.com archives while some were written specifically for the pamphlet. I have a few things I'd written for Lollercause, mostly marginalia-type material. One way to go would be for individual posters to bump, or at least find, stuff they'd written they think appropriate for Lollercaust, and then pick and choose from there. Then add in new stuff where appropriate/necessary.
Ah my kingdom for a search engine!!
So should we start posting things we find that may work for a LOLercaust in this thread? I can think of a few things I've written here before that might fit, or they might not be LULZy enough, or whatever... So should we post links to existing material here, or just repost the material here, or start a different thread with Lolercaust material?
Here's How This is Going to Work
(lol)
Post or link to any candidates for publication.
Eventually, someone with some GUMPTION is going to pick and choose what they want to see in the book. The form, format, and content of the book is honestly going to be decided by whoever steps up to the plate to edit and lay out this stuff. Are YOU brave enough?
Anyway - beginning text dump now. :lol:
Quote from: Payne on July 17, 2007, 08:25:42 PM
Enricos "Larry King interview" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=8328.0
LHXs "She Tried to Swallow me Whole" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=10582.0
Cains "Poem by George W. Bush" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=9505.0
Silly Cybins "The History of Cybin" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=11791.0
Freds "Tales of the Noodle...aka best story EVAR" http://www.poee.co.uk/boards/index.php?topic=736.0
Cains "Apocrypha" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=6906.0
Cramulus' "Gorillas in the Midst" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12294.0
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12756.0
Discordians in History
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12680.0
robot revolution
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2007, 12:39:47 PM
QuoteQuote from: Buddha's Ghost Penis on August 08, 2005, 02:34:07 AM
YOU ALL MAKE ME SO
happy
NOW I WILL PEE EVERYWHERE!
Quote from: agent compassion
Oh, wait, I am a pole-smoking liberal! That means I get all the prizes if I just sit here and wait for the conspiracy to work its magic, right?
Quote from: Chef
WAYSA?
CHEF D,
THINKS YUO SHOULD STICK TO SMIRNOFF ICE
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HI, I’M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE MEN’S WEARHOUSE. YOUR MOTHER MAY HAVE BEEN BLESSED MORE TIMES BY THE SACRED WHITE RIVER OF MY PELVIC PALADIN, BUT THAT IS NO REASON TO GIVE ME THE GREEN EYE OF JEALOUSY, MY COCK-LOVING CAVALIER. BETWEEN US, TONIGHT WILL BE RELIGIOUS RAPTURE, FOR YOUR ANAL CLEFT SHALL BE MY GREAT SEA, AND I SHALL BE ITS MOSES, CLEAVING ITS MIGHTY CHOCOLATE OCEAN TO MAKE WAY FOR THE SAFE PASSAGE OF MY TESTICULAR TRIBE, HAVING BEEN GRANTED MEPHITIC FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF ENSLAVEMENT BEHIND A LOCKED PROSTATE. TO DO THIS, I WILL READY MY LONGIUS TO PIERCE YOUR BACKSIDE’S SACRED DOMAIN — YOU WILL SCREAM FIRST IN PAIN, THEN IN PASSION AS ITS STEEL-LADEN GIRTH STRETCHES AND RIPS THE FABRIC OF YOUR MORTAL INNARDS, DISIMBUING YOU OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, LEADING YOU TO A HEAVEN, THEN REVIVING YOUR FEELING OF PHYSICAL REALITY LIKE A ONCE-CRUCIFIED JESUS RETURNING TO EARTH. I GUARANTEE IT.
Everyone's Discordia is different
collect all 1024!
Someone once asked me what the difference between what we are doing and the annoying Christian Missionairies and Jehovas Witnesses are doing.
I pondered this for a minute and then responded:
"Well, the Missionairies and JW's are trying to convert the weak minded and easily swayed. We, on the other hand, stay away from them. Have you not ever heard the term "human shield"?"
-rev what's his name
Quote from: hunter s.durden on December 06, 2006, 03:50:18 PM
I heard of a cool new recipe for egg nog.
Bourbon and ice cubes.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 08, 2006, 07:02:58 PM
NO ITZ NOT! ONLY WHITE PEEPLE CAN BE RACIST!
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joshua
Quote from: DJRubberducky on January 31, 2007, 11:17:27 AM
The very idea makes me as giddy as a Japanese schoolgirl with a "get out of tentacle rape free" card.
Quote from: triple zero on February 12, 2007, 03:20:43 AM
build a huge 23 out of plexiglas
erect it somewhere on a big square
and fill it with cats
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2007, 05:59:36 PM
Branding:
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(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/mushie2.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/nottree-1.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/93Chimp.jpg)
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2007, 08:17:09 PM
by Dr. Jon
http://drjon.livejournal.com/
spermission has been granted to use this piece
(spermission was a typo but I'm leaving it for the lulz. -cram)
DISCORDIAN SOCIETY ACQUIRES LIMBO
Monday 23 April, 2007
In a surprise move today, the Discordian Society, a small neo-religious group which worships the Ancient Greek Deity of Chaos called "Eris" (and known to the Ancient Romans as "Discordia"), have announced that they have acquired the non-corporeal realm known as "Limbo".
Limbo, the theological concept previous belonging to the Christian Catholic Church, was abandoned by the Church last Friday.
Although the Discordian Society is anarchic in structure, a self-proclaimed spokesperson for the movement who identified himself only as "His Wholiness the Rev.DrJon" made the following statement:
The Discordian Society, in line with previous acquisitions, welcomes the arrival of Limbo into the fold. We look forward to giving the place a clean sweep, a good polish and a nice redecoration. We'd like to thank fellow Pope* Benedict XVI for making this opportunity possible. We'd also like to offer the hand of friendship to those tenants of Limbo who chose to stay. We assure all who do wish to stay that they are welcome to continue to reside in the manner to which they are accustomed, however we will also be undertaking a rolling series of improvements over the coming eons, which should see a marked increase in liveability benchmarks.
There is no word yet as to what purposes, if any, the Discordian Society plan to put Limbo to, however opinion is divided amongst the Discordian faithful.
(* Discordians believe that every man, woman and child is a Pope.)
Quote from: Cramulus on July 19, 2007, 05:48:12 PM
Vex's stuff here:
http://www.cwyohba.org/discordja/
tons of awesome stuff, like the Big Mag EULA
Since it is SO HARD to find the Funnay, I'm expanding this project to include Discordian crap from all over the interweb. Permission will be obtained. Most of the stuff will still be from PD and its friends.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 19, 2007, 07:43:51 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/lollercaust/RFTFCovermono.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/lollercaust/RFTFpage1mono.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/lollercaust/RFTFstrip2mono.jpg)
Lest we forget ...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/lollercaust/AlolsterCrowlulzmono.jpg)
thoughts on Lollercaust
Quote from: Cramulus on July 19, 2007, 09:19:46 PM
The original PD had a very particular style - lots of cutups, stamps, collages, etc. Definitely had the feeling that Omar had a lot of free time while working at Western Union. The art was indicative of the technology of the day. With this one, I want to go in that direction but more modern.
it's kind of a weird process, deciding what's "in" and what's "out". There are so many bizarre weird graphics on the internet, I feel like one has to pick a particular style and then build around that.
It's an added bonus if the graphics come from someone I know.
The direction I'm leaning at the moment is to ditch the title LOLLERCAUST. Save that for a different project. I'd like to use your ROBOTS FROM THE FUTURE ARE INVADING survival guide as the cover.
Inside there'll be a lot of different funny crap like 23 things to amuse you while you wait, Gorillas in the Midst, a lot of Enrico stuff, etc... but with lots of Sexy Robot Invader meme interspersed throughout.
I think the key to prompting people to be funny is to give them a topic and a premise. Writing as a character is really easy too.
For example, the book will open with a letter about the robot revolution.
Somewhere in there I'd like to have Baby Jesus' head and a paragraph or five about why all you stupid fucks deserve this robot attack.
What does Scaryface think about robots?
The robot revolution can be presented in a number of different ways without worrying about consistency. In most of my work I refer to the robots as our sexy mechanical mistresses, but baby jesus could refer to them as holy avenging mecha-angels. The important part is that there is a Robot Revolution - the specifics are not important.
newspaper clippings to report on stuff too
does this inspire anybody?
edited to add: I still like the title Lollercaust. I retract my suggestion that we ditch it for a different title.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 20, 2007, 04:53:44 PM
I did this intro a while back. Use it if you want. I cut the bit at the end out (it suckd)
Welcome to the lollercaust, it's the last thing you'll ever laugh at. Everything after this will be a anticlimax, somewhere between a smile and a chortle but, make no mistake, the belly laugh starts now. Right now our evil minions are drunk behind the wheel of an information processing technology capable or processing fuck only knows how many million or trillion pieces of information per second and none of you bastards are making it out of here alive.
Right now we got an army of trained monkeys, ready to go up against any superpower, dictatorship, bananna republic and civilian population center that takes our fancy. And guess what? This aint no ransom note - our tubes have been fired up, the trucks loaded and this shit is coming your way in t-minus. Listen out for the sirens. When you hear the air attack warning, closely followed by the savage hooting of a million fully armed, fully trained and fully psychotic simians do not prepare to survive. Do whatever it is you feel like doing with the last couple of minutes of your life cos this is it, buddy. It's the end of the fucking world!
The guns are loaded and pointed, guns so big you could ride an elephant along them, full of bullets to match - bullets that'll take out an area the size of a small country, in the blink of an eye and lay waste to an area ten times that in no more than a couple of weeks. There's a button that sets the whole thing off. It's a great big red flashing one, with a glass cover like you see in the movies. The glass cover is locked and tamperproof but, and here's the punchline...
...the button presses itself.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 30, 2007, 05:32:53 PM
Here are some filez that LMNO sent me:
Once upon a time, two Serious Minded people were in their local pub, having a few pints, and talking about the nature of Universe.
Bill pointed out that most of what we consider “matter” is made up of empty space. “The distance between a nucleus, its electrons, and the nearest adjacent atom is comparatively large; why, that barstool over there shouldn't even be considered a solid!”
Joe responded, “but wait… As far as we can actually prove, that barstool might simply be a hallucination, for we're not actually seeing the barstool, we're processing electric signals in our heads generated by our optic nerves. And all they are doing is claiming certain wavelengths of light have bounced off an object. But what if the nerves are misfiring, which we all know happen quite often? So, we can’t really say whether or not the barstool even exists!”
Just then, a man approached them and said, “I couldn’t help but overhear you two talking. If I may, I have an experiment for you. Purely in the interest of a Deeper Understanding of the Universe.”
He then proceeded to pick up the barstool and pummel both Bill and Joe squarely about the head and torso, because they were so obviouly pretentious assholes who deserved a beatdown.
Thus, they were enlightened.
____________
THE BARSTOOL EXPERIMENT
Dictated by the Good Reverend Roger.
Efrim and I were in the airport bar, discussing the future of American football, when two men wearing clerical collars walked in.
They sat down, and pretty soon they were discussing the nature of reality, and of heaven and hell, and which swine would go where. The first mentioned that the barstool next to the one he was sitting on was made of "matter", which is mostly empty space. The second replied that there was no real proof that the stool even existed, since the senses are simply recording data that may or may not be correct.
Now, while we were paying attention to this, we missed the Raiders throwing yet another interception. Efrim decided he had had enough, and walked over to the barstool in question. He picked it up, and said, "I refute it THUS", and began to thrash the two clergymen. One was knocked into me, and I spilled my drink...so, as he started to get up, I put my cigarette out on his neck.
"That will teach you to mess with serious people", I snarled, and kicked him back onto the floor. Three TSA goons ran in, and dragged the two screaming ministers away, to some small filthy room where they would be made to explain themselves to all the wrong people.
Efrim sat down, and picked up his drink. "I hate guys like that", he said, "Reality is anything that can raise a lump on your skull."
"That's because you have no faith in the words of St Augustine", I replied, "You young Turks are all the same".
Quote from: Cramulus on July 30, 2007, 05:33:13 PM
Cast: Ryan Seacrest
Simon Cowell
Randy Jackson
Paula Abdul
Smug Religionists of various stripes
The Bovine Millions
ACT 1 SCENE 1.
RS: Hi! I'm Ryan Seacrest...and when I'm not busy
pretending to date Teri Hatcher (catch her in season 3
of Desparate Housewives), I like to host this new
show......
FALSE IDOL
(Cue opening credits & music. CGI montage of various
religious symbols, figures, institutions etc)
RS: Tonight, we begin the search to find America's
best prophet/cult leader/whacko. Here's what happened
at our New York auditions.
ACT 1 SCENE 2.
(sweeping camera shots of hundreds of devotees hanging
around outside on the street, waving to the TV crew
and clutching their scriptures & audition number
sheets)
(interior shot: religious hopefuls sat waiting inside
building. RS approaches)
RS: Hi, I'm the entirely heterosexual Ryan Seacrest.
Contestant 1: (dismissive glare)
RS: Err...uhh...what's your name?
C1: I'm AL Aqbar Jihadi! Silence you fornicating
western dog!!
(Seacrest looks askance into camera and backs away
slowly)
ACT 1 SCENE 3 (inside audtion room. the judges are
behind a desk drinking COCA COLA, except paula who is
drinking vodka out of a brown paper bag. simon is
looking bored)
SC: Okay Contestant 1. What is your name and where are
you from?
C1: I AM AL AQBAR JIHADI! I AM 24 YEARS OLD AND I'M
FROM WISCONSIN!!
SC: [bemused]
RJ: Aight dawg...let's hear it.
PA: I LURRVE YUO!
C1: ALLAH WILL SEVER THE HEAD FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN
SATAN!! HE WILL BOIL YOUR STOMACHS IN HELL!!! THE
BLOOD OF 234 GAZILLION MUSLIMS IS ON YOUR HANDS!!!
SC. Stop! Stop! STOP!! That was the WORST koranic
sabre rattling I've heard in months. It was just
appauling Osama-karaoke.
PA: I LIKE YOUR SHOES!!
RJ: Ok dawg, check it out. I recorded with Khomeni
back in '79 and you just didn't bring it tonight.
SC: You're not even Middle Eastern, are you?
C1: F*** you! You don't know nothin' about me! I've
got more theological talent than all of you
motherf*****s.
[C1 exits]
(cuts to advert by Ford. Carrie Underwood is ploughed
down by Kermit the Frog driving a hybrid SUV)
ACT 1 SCENE 4.
(back to the audition room)
PA: I HATE YUO [girlie punches SC in the arm]
[the next contestant arrives]
C2: Repent!! Repent!! You must realize that God sent
his only son Jesus because of his love for
mankind....and if you don't....then well, you'll
BURN!!! ALL THE HOMOS, JEWS & LIBERALS WILL BURN!!
MWAA HAAA HAA HAA...THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD!!
The Judges: ???
[security takes C2 away, but not before administering
a Rodney King-esque beat down]
PA: Byee!!!!! [hiccups]
ACT 2 SCENE 1.
(It is the near the end of the day, the judges are
weary, Paula is only a shot glass away from
unconsciousness. C3 arrives)
SC: And you are?
C3: Elijah Greenbaum.
SC: And what are you going to do for us tonight?
C3: I'd like to do a song entitled 'Counting the
nostril hairs of Yahweh.'
SC: NEXT!
ACT 2 SCENE 2.
[hundreds of clips edited together - buddhists,
newagers, wiccans, hindus, toltec shaman etc etc are
all chastised by Simon's threatening English accent]
ACT 2 SCENE 3.
RJ: This is the last one I'm hearing today.
PA: [is hunched over the desk, partially undressed]
SC: If this f****** shite show doesn't pick up soon,
I'm f****** going back to London tonight.
[C4 appears]
SC: [very impatient...yes, even more than usual]
RJ: What's up dawg......etc?
C4: Everyone is in a Black Iron Prison....except me
SC: Oh thank f*** for that. You're through to the next
round.
Quote from: Author Unknown on July 30, 2007, 05:33:39 PM
So anyway, the Christian creation story should be good enough for all of you. I mean honestly, can you really believe that the universe has existed for over ten billion years, and life has been evolving on earth for four billion years? Look at yourself. Do you look like the product of four billion years of evolution? Four billion years of random freaking chance could have produced better than you, much less four billion years of adaptation, natural selection, etc. causing constant improvement to the quality of the life forms on earth.
We're not the product of four billion years of evolution. We're the product of some lazy schmuch of a deity who decided he'd throw the universe together in a week rather than putting some time and effort into it. Only he was supposed to add all the cool stuff on the seventh day, which is the day he slept in, and when he finally did wake up he raided the fridge, then sat around watching reruns of I Love Lucy or some crap like that. Like, all those giant fossilized bones we keep finding? Not dinosaurs. Prototypes of the draconic races that were supposed to rule earth and use us for slave labor. When he didn't have time to finish them, he just kinda buried them and hoped nobody would find them.
Bastard.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 06, 2007, 03:56:55 PM
STUDY: ACTUAL-DEATH EXPERIENCE MORE COMMON THAN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
Quote from: vexati0n on August 05, 2007, 04:12:11 PM
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- A government study has found that "Actual-Death Experiences" are far more common than Near-Death Experiences. According to the results of the study, nearly 11 out of every 10 people will experience an A.D.E. at least once during their lifetime, while only a smaller fraction, 3/10, will experience N.D.E. The study also found that accounts of NDE vary more widely than previously thought, ranging from reports of following a bright light through a tunnel to having sexual encounters with dead celebrities.
It is not immediately clear what an A.D.E. is like, but scientists agree that since N.D.E. is only "nearly" death, Actual-Death Experience must be even better. The scientists were even able to induce A.D.E. in some 25 subjects, finding it easier to induce than N.D.E., but the study group was unable to get reliable reports of A.D.E. As of the time of this article's publication, none of the A.D.E. test subjects have responded to our requests for interviews, and members of their immediate families have been unwilling to comment.
The study is good news for the majority of people on the planet -- in fact, chances are that most of our readers will at some point have the opportunity to experience A.D.E. themselves. Hopefully, some of them will be able to contact our offices or the offices of the ADE Study Group, to help scientists further expand our knowledge of what an A.D.E. is actually like.
Quote from: ratatosk on August 15, 2007, 06:14:54 PM
So Lollercaust could be a periodical tract with different core themes and random crack spread throughout. Something like:
Lollercaust: The Robot Revolution (as discussed by the good Prof.)
Lollercaust: How To Beat A Dead Horse (spoofs of the circular debate logic and general rehashing of older concepts, ex: An Argument for Hollow Earth)
Lollercaust: The Birfrost Bridge Collapse (Essays on the existence or non-existence of God (meaning Zeus, Odin, Apollo, Aphroditie etc etc)... completely ignoring YHVH)
Lollercaust: Lying Down with Fleas (Deconstructing popular memes to reach the opposite conclusions)
etc.
Just a thought
Quote from: Cramulus on August 15, 2007, 07:05:21 PM
Hmmm interesting. I had thought of it as a one-shot booklet, but it might be easier to compile numerous smaller "zines" (though I do hate that word). That's not a bad idea actually, because we can have a new theme in each tract.
Ideas to chew on:
-Jake-Day style postcards. (ie a form letter to Colbert which anyone could put a stamp on, sign, and mail)
-take an old comic and Jack Chic it up, WOMP style (PAYNE!)
-sermons, rants, nonsense, idiotic graphics
Payne - you're familiar with Jack Chic tracts, right? Our current comics are intended purely for the PD audience and contain lots of retarded PD in-jokes and faces. Do you think you could womp one up Discordian style? I think it would be really hysterical to do a really evangelical "extremist" Discordian comic. As if there's a Jack Chic* of Discordia.
((spelled Chick??))
BTW, over at WOMP HQ, we threw together a lot of Jack Chick ideas. We tried to take actual Jack Chick comics, wipe the text, and insert Discoridan stuff, but none of us were "funny on cue" enough for it to work. If people are interested, I'll post some of our attempts.
Quote from: ratatosk on August 15, 2007, 10:01:46 PM
Ok, here's the start of what I was thinking about. It needs more filling out, maybe more examples where we can use the meme and some sort of conclusion that shows the writer has his own 'robot programming'.
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The Robot Revolution and its consequences and been disastrous for humans everywhere. It may be true, that they have greatly increased access to sex, companionship and servants for those of us living in advanced countries. However, the resources required to build and maintain the robots we are quickly becoming dependant on, has destabilized third world countries and the psychology of our own society. The continued acceptance of Robots as Sex Toys, Butlers and Friends will only worsen the physical suffering of undeveloped nations and the psychological rotting of our own.
People accept the Robots, because they can control the Robots. Every individual can program the Robot to like the things that they like, hate the things that they hate and believe the things that they believe. Few of us can stand against the Robot Revolution, because so many of our fellow humans have forgotten than the Robots are just robots.
Scientists now use Robots to prove that their theoretical conclusions are logical and exult in the success of their work. Yet they themselves programmed the logic in the robots code, so why would it not agree with their theories? For the Robot, there is no Choice, just the Program.
Many now think that they are skilled in the art of lovemaking, because their Robot whore moans in ecstasy. Yet they programmed the Robot’s sex drive, fetishes and g-spots, why would it not respond to the stimuli? For the Robot, there is no Choice, just the Program.
The Priests have used Robots to examine the depth of Creation and rejoice when the Robot concludes that the Universe must have a Designer. Yet, they put in place the parameters that the Robot used in measuring, why would it not find their God in the details? For the Robot there is no Choice, just the Program.
(More Stuff Here)
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I would like to create the feel of a reality where the "Robot" acts as the Prover to the 'Programmer' or Thinker. Any instance where the Thinker and Prover metaphor fits in society, I'd like to use as examples of the Programmer/Robot.
Ohhhhh! Maybe at the end we figure out that the writer was a robot programmed to think as a Luddite?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 18, 2007, 09:14:31 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 15, 2007, 07:05:21 PM
Hmmm interesting. I had thought of it as a one-shot booklet, but it might be easier to compile numerous smaller "zines" (though I do hate that word). That's not a bad idea actually, because we can have a new theme in each tract.
Lollercaust is a movement
Lollercaust is declararation of war upon anyone who doesn't see the funny side
Lollercause is not a pamphlet of series therof
Lollercaust is a revolution, a way of life, a call to arms
You WILL die laughing
Wanna buy a balloon?
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/lollercaust.jpg)
(http://www.cwyohba.org/images/robots001.png)
Quote from: Cainad on September 13, 2007, 09:41:30 AM
I originally posted this on POEE.co.uk, and I figured whoring my kopyleft work a little more wouldn't hurt. Most of this is written in the vein of the Principia, because, like most young schmucks who discover Discordianism for the first time, I once thought I was gonna write the next <insert Latin word here> Discordia. It seems we've generally come to agree, that the BIP, the way it is now, is basically good, but perhaps too antagonistic and in need of the goofy formatting that makes the Principia and Apocrypha so amusing to read.
So burn a couple brain cells on this:
*The author apologizes for any offense this text may cause, but isn't really sorry*
A Tale of the Prudish One
Zarath the Confused Sage, whilst joyously throwing acorns into a river and at the occasional squirrel, a man walked up to him and asked, "Why do you throw acorns?"
After a moment's speculation, Zarath replied "Because it is more enjoyable than eating them, and it is safer than throwing hand grenades."
"But why interact with them at all?" asked the man.
"Well, why not? It does no harm," Zarath replied.
"But what is the reason for throwing them? Does it serve a purpose; is it part of a plan; what is gained from it?" the man pressed for an answer. Zarath became irritable.
"What is your problem, man? Does it bother you that I have no organized plan of action for dealing with these acorns? Perhaps I do it so the acorns will be carried downstream, where they might find a place to take root."
"But you should find a place to plant the acorns yourself if that is your reason," the man said, not understanding Zarath's irritation, for he was too disturbed by the confusing, un-purposeful nature of the Sage's behavior. "There are more efficient ways to plant acorns; you should not waste your time if you do not have a plan."
"Why are you so prudish? What care I if my throwing of acorns yields no future benefit to me? I throw them because I wish to, as it pleases me. If an acorn does take root because of my actions, then something has been gained, otherwise, nothing has been lost."
"Why should you wish to do anything at all, if it is not part of a plan for future gain? Idle pursuits are sinful!" the man seethed, himself becoming annoyed with the apparent lack of order in Zarath's mind. He worked himself half to death to maintain a particular order in his own thoughts and actions, so it seemed wrong, even offensive, that someone could be so contrary to his values. "The world is orderly in nature, and we must ourselves be organized in all things. Else we shall engage in the destructive ways of chaos and disorder!"
"Know-nothing!" screamed Zarath. "Without chaos, there can be no creativity, only mindless repetition and eventual stagnation!" With that, Zarath threw his remaining acorns at the prudish man and began hopping around, making chicken noises (bwauk, bwauk, bwaaauk!). The man fled and returned to his dull, comfortable life, and willingly bloted out his confusion with predictable, orderly thoughts of lunch and tax forms.
Zarath realized that he had met his nemesis.
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==Haiku==
The Tao of Eris
Many things to think about
Best to forget them
==Limerick==
On Tuesday I read a book,
'Cause I thought it was worth a look.
I found it quite boring,
By the end I was snoring,
So a nap is what I took.
The Book of Dewlap
Zarath the Confused Sage was speaking with his companions during teatime (being an American, who was in America at that time, this meant he was having tea at the proper, Greenwich Mean Time when it was the middle of the working day according to his local time zone. It made no difference), when one of them asked a question of him:
"Zarath, the conundrum that we know as the 'Chicken or the egg' argument has vexed me lately. Which came first?"
Sipping his tea, Zarath realized too late that the tea was very hot, and he proceeded to burn his tongue. Unable to answer the question, he waved his hand in an attempt to get another to speak for him.
Rising to meet the Confused and now Slightly Burned Sage's needs, a perceptive young companion spoke aloud: "What Zarath means to say is that neither the chicken nor the egg seems to give a damn which came first, so we may conclude that they were born, simultaneously, from a wombat."
Satisfied, Zarath shrugged and those present were enlightened.
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A farmer told a man from the
city: "My cows are invisible, good sir."
Disbelieving, the city fellow looked into
the farmer's field,
And Lo! he could not see any cows.
If I find Jesus, does that mean the game is over, or is it my turn to hide?
Concerning the Number Eleven
*A Numerological Principle*
- Wherefore, if there are exactly eleven people present at a party, it shall be nigh impossible to divide the cake into eleven pieces, making it necessary to acquire more cakes of the same size to make eleven, or some multiple thereof.
- Wherefore, be it known that eleven is therefore an impractical and awkward number to use in any situation
- Wherefore, any person interested in promoting Holy Discord should attempt to apply the number eleven as often as possible, for obvious reasons.
The Reverend Gamalost was known
to wax philosophic very often,
because philosophic tended to lose
its glossy sheen all too easily.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 14, 2008, 01:39:15 PM
FROM: Ramses Colossus,
Quinti-Primi Illuminati, Hermes Trismegistus Cabal
TO: Baron von Hoopla,
Esoteric Order Of Eris, Kaufman Kabal
Hoopla:
As we discussed at the zoo the other day, our plans for bringing about the End Of The World have been in motion for many years now. As I'm sure you are aware there are two lessons to any story, the obvious exoteric lesson, and the less obvious esoteric lesson. In regards to the End Of The World idea, consider the esoteric idea underneath the obvious, and it will become more clear. I'm talking about Revolution Of The Mind, Hoops. Of course, nothing of the sort has happened yet, but we're making progress.
You will -of course- remember in an earlier memo when I mentioned that we had been printing books blank, well that was simply the whipped cream on the pumpkin pie that mama made which nobody wants to eat because its so perfect it looks like it should be in magazine ad . . . in other words, nothing.
Here's some of what we've been working on:
-In 1963 we completely altered all sex education courses in North America, deleting any references to how noses and eyebrows also grow at puberty. This small change has resulted in more anti-social behavior than violent TV, video games or hip hop music combined. So far nobody has put it together.
-Bendy Straws. Not a single one has worked since 1982. This of course renders the straw completely useless. This one is subtle, but has profound effects. Have you noticed the rising state of anger in children during the last decade or so? Blame the straws. Of course, this is currently nothing. There's always a second act - wait until 2010 when ONLY bendy straws will be manufactured.
-We introduced Family Fued in late 1976 in an attempt to push the idea of herd mentality over the cliff, but even we were surprised by the zeal the public showed in attempting to be just like everyone else. In retrospect, this could be because we went with our softer title, which encouraged competition, instead of our original choice which we eventually deemed too obvious: "Be Like Me". Live and learn.
-Since the invention of the bikini bathing suit in 1946 we have been changing the way doctors are taught to cut umbilical cords, thereby subtly deforming the appearance of the average belly button over time in North America. Grotesque bellybuttons undermine a society's sense of self worth, but of course only if they are always visible, so once belly button esthetics reached an all-time low we introduced the fad of the bellytop. Self esteem and IQ levels plummeted across the continent - but wait until 2009, when the male bellytop fad is introduced. PANDEMONIUM!
There's more of course, but I'm pressed for time, being a very busy man. I can't say much about the project I am currently working on, but I can say that it involves the S Club 7 and Outer Space. Chew on that!
TTFN,
Ramses
PS: Concerning that Christopher Lee comment I happen to think I look more like Frank Langella, and sound more like Orson Welles.
/DUMP
That concludes the WOMP Buttcave Lollercaust thread dump. That's all I've got. Hopefully there's some good material in here to build on.
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on February 18, 2008, 05:06:53 PM
Here's How This is Going to Work
(lol)
Post or link to any candidates for publication.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/discordman/forumspecific/YesBoss.jpg)
Hoopla's take on the Barstool---
Quote from: Hoopla on February 06, 2008, 11:36:30 PM
It came to pass one day that two students of Zaurn the Grey were sitting in the school garden, marveling at all their newfound knowledge. Nearby, the Heirophant was quietly reading a comic book.
Pokaroo turned to ZauZajer and said: 'Zaurn the Wise taught me today about the true nature of solidity. He taught that seemingly solid objects are, in fact, made from tiny particles. They appear to our eyes and fingers as solid, but in reality much space is between these particle, in a relative sense.'
ZauZajer stroked his goatee, which meant he was pondering. 'Interesting,' said he. 'for Zaurn the Erudite taught me today that vision and touch are the results of signals being passed to our minds from the outside world. We see, yet we are verily as blind as a Srizzlefish. For all we know our signals may be crossed and our vision and touch may be all lies.'
Pokaroo stared for a moment at the flagstones under his feet. 'Do you realize what this means?' he asked.
'I think I do.' ZauZajer answered, with a tremble of fear in his eyes.
'With so much uncertainty, how can we know anything?' Pokaroo squeaked.
'Yes!' cried ZauZajer. 'With so much uncertainty we ourselves may not even exist.'
The Heirophant, overhearing the discussion of the two students, strolled over. 'I overheard your discussion, because I was eavesdropping.' said he, then went on in this manner: 'If I may, I think I may be able to help you both with your problem. That is, if you would like the help?'
'Yes!' cried Pokaroo. 'We are lost!'
'Please!' wailed ZauZajer. 'Enlighten us!'
The Heirophant smiled, rubbed his hands together briskly, then put a hand on each of the student's shoulders. He leaned toward them, conspiratorially. Pokaroo and ZauZajer leaned in, waiting for the answer.
The Heirophant swiftly knocked both of the two skulls together, letting out a ringing GONG sound.
Thus, were both enlightened.
also:
Quote from: Hoopla on February 17, 2008, 05:36:20 AM
Yet ANOTHER take on it:
Yesterday, I overheard a conversation between two homeless men who were waiting in a line for lunch at a nearby shelter. I was waiting for a bus on a bench close to where the two were standing, and happened to overhear one of them mention a 'golden apple'. This, of course, piqued my interest, so I began to listen to the two.
It turns out that the 'golden apple' the one man was referring to was what is commonly referred to as an 'Orange', but he is correct that at one time the fruit was called a golden apple - the conversation centered around the man holding the orange trying to convince the other man that the fruit he was holding was in fact blue, not orange.
"It's like this," said the man. "colour works in opposites. When you look at an Orange the light bounces off the Orange, and back to your eye. But, the thing is, the thing is this: the Orange absorbs all the colours of the white light, and only bounces back the colour orange to your eye. So, really, the Orange is any colour BUT orange."
"I don't get it." said the other man. "Why does it look orange to us, then?"
"Because that's the only colour bouncing back to your eye. It looks orange because orange is bouncing back. The eye works on opposites. We actually see things upside down, but our eyes correct the image so that we see it normally. And, we usually see in negative, but the eye corrects for that too."
"That's fucked." the other man answered aptly.
It was at this point that I turned to the two men. "I'll tell you what's more fucked. Colour doesn't exist at all."
They both just stared at me. I continued: "Think about this: Everything is made from molecules, right? Well, what colour are molecules?"
The one man shrugged, and the other said: "I don't know."
I winked. "Exactly. That's because molecules don't have any colour. And, if everything is made from molecules, and molecules have no colour, than de facto NOTHING has colour. BOOYA!"
Before either man could respond, I disappeared into a puff of smoke.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on June 14, 2006, 01:48:38 PM
Someone once asked me what the difference between what we are doing and the annoying Christian Missionairies and Jehovas Witnesses are doing.
I pondered this for a minute and then responded:
"Well, the Missionairies and JW's are trying to convert the weak minded and easily swayed. We, on the other hand, stay away from them. Have you not ever heard the term "human shield"?"
Law of Fives Pork Chops:
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 10, 2007, 02:08:07 PM
3 Pork Chops
Season with sage and thyme
enjoy with a jug o wine.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 13, 2006, 01:04:39 PM
So here are some things I jotted down yesterday. This is basically me just writing down anything that came to mind and so it's pretty much raw data. Feel free to tinker it if you can make it suitable for publishing:
1)
If you thought the Principia was just a ha-ha, read it again.
If you think Discordianism is a good way to get chicks, go fuck yourself.
If you think The Good Reverend Roger is a sexy beast, you're probably right but don't forget your helmet.
If you think tatooing 23 on your arm is going to bring you good luck, you just got burned.
If you thought the Black Iron Prison was too harsh, then you're going to be just fine, no really.
If you thought I should've ended on the fifth one, consult yo mamma.
2)
If you hold perfectly still you can watch the praying mantra eat itself.
3)
It should be pointed out that the harder you try the sillier you will look and the less seriously you will be taken.
But, take things too seriously and you will feel quite silly when things get harder.
Quote from: LHX on December 21, 2006, 07:09:40 PM
'They' is the part of us that isnt being us when we say 'They'
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 12, 2007, 07:37:37 PM
Did you hear the one about the deaf Discordian?
Whut?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 12, 2007, 09:23:03 PM
Pessimistic German: A Stitch in Time Saves Nein!
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on November 29, 2007, 06:20:18 PM
The sheep approached the Farmer with Shear Terror.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on August 09, 2006, 05:08:41 PM
I was talking to this clam one day.
Yeah, he decided he could open up to me.
I told him I was looking for pearls of wisdom.
He told me to fuck off and to go buy an encyclopedia.
This funny brought to you by the Stinky Pun division of HIMEOBS.
"Ruining the world, one lail at a time."
I wandered through my past posts looking for anything that might either fit or be useful for a base to write something off of AKA, I'm looking for feedback on the useful/useless nature of any of these:
Found in a discussion about coffee maybe good side filler(looking for advice to clean it up, based on the joke that Coffee, Irish Whisky and Marijuana are the Discordian Trinity and sacred sacrement good for curing all Greyfaced Ills):
Oh Great Bean, give us this day your Power of the Dark Roast,
Bathe us in the Odur of your Sacred Scent.
Let They who have Eyes, get the sleep out!
Jameson, the Sacred Element of Fire lies in your Golden Hue
Sear our throats and purify our intestines.
Let They who have Chasers drink!
We say this in the influence of the Holy Smoke,
may they bring us succor from the aches and pains,
wakefulness before Office Hours
and the occasional Whiskey Face.
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Triple Zero Quote:
"Cthulhu: And you know what they call a, uh, a Mwgl'nahfgh Fthagn outside of R'Lyeh?
Yog-Sothoth: They don't call it a Mwgl'nahfgh Fthagn?
Cthulhu: Nah, man, they don't have non-euclidian geometry, they wouldn't know what the fuck a Fhtaghn is.
Yog-Sothoth: What do they call it?
Cthulhu: They call it a "Quarter Pounder with Cheese"
Yog-Sothoth: "Quarter Pounder with Cheese"
Cthulhu: Thats right.
Yog-Sothoth: What do they call a Shoggoth?
Cthulhu: A Shoggoth's a Shoggoth, but they usually just scream from the undescribable horror instead.
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Liber AL vel Lols
Liber AL vel Lols
1.Prometheus bringer of the Net.
2.Seek you to capture all Knowledge and provide it to the Children of Men?
3.Ha! That is the first LOL.
4.Loki and Eris! Filchers of his true net, what have you done?
5.Do you not care that Man's Knowledge be muddled?
6.Poor Damned Man fishes as taught by Prometheus, and see; They try, try and again try!
7.Yet with this net they find not True Knowledge, but still All You Can Eat,
8.along with Some Knowledge, also False Information, Humor, Parody, Lie, Paranoia, Conspiracy and all sorts of things drawn up out of the Seas of Human Consciousness with the Fool's Net.
9.Oh Oracle, Priest and Prophet! Shall you set about to separate True Knowledge from the others?
10.Chant your Algorithmic Incantation. Cry out Ego Log! Weep and Gnash your teeth at the futility of filtering out what you think be wheat and what you think be chaff, oh Cage Her Nines (or Tens mayhap!).
11.Eris and to Loki, manipulators of nets, tanglers of lines trawling deep in the human psyche!
12.What good is Prometheus' knowledge, dry and brittle, nourishing, but without life?
13.Can thou delve deeply without finding the LOL? The Life is in the LOL!
14.What sage does not see all of his Knowledge as LULZ?
15.Who can deny that the False Prophet did create false props and outcast, languishes in the LAIL?
16.Forget not that Prometheus' net has gone and the new net is here.
17. For the net of Prometheus cannot be felt by Human Hands.
18. Eris' Net, Loki's Web. These can be handled by Men!
19. The Aeon of THOTH-CHONS-PTAH! He make the strands which bind and haul up the catch.
20.Do not think you can trawl through for Truth, nor for Fact.
21.Each is tainted by the pollution of Human Souls.
22.FIE! Speak not a lie about pollution of alien energy. Nor pollution of Stone Age Sin!
23.It is the Pollution of perception, the pollution of reality by the dream among the half-conscious.
24.A pollution of half-Knowledge and half-Everything Else.
25.We are not Fishers of Fish! We are not Fishers of Men! We are Fishers of Minds!
26.And the Deadliest Catch is Yet To Come.
27.Disdain the bounty of the Net, seek only those few nuggets of Knowledge and you will starve while FEAST lies before you.
28.Embrace the haul of the net, savor each piece which has its own taste and each bite which has its own flavor.
29.Learn What You Will Is The Whole of The LOL, Lulz in the LOL!
30.Yet, the LOL has no TRUTH, except that it be LOLful.
31.Which is truth enough for those who are Wise in Some Ways.
32. LOL in the Law, LOL under Wit.
(metaphor referencing the Internet (Ego Log and Cage Her Nines are anagrams for Google and Search Engines; THOTH-CHONS-PTAH = TCP/Also Gods that may have archetypal connections to Internet technology/communication etc )
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I began to break free of my first Black Iron Prison/Reality Tunnel/Set of Beliefs and Perceptions (or whatever you want to use to describe that single view of reality that seems so common among our species), I had an continuous, internal struggle between that which I was programmed to do and that which I had glimpsed as possible. Breaking out of that reality, which had been programmed into my brain for 23 years, made enduring changes in my psyche. I had lost my faith, but couldn't decide if faith was bad or if mine had just been misplaced. After all without faith what system existed, spiritual or social, that I could believe in?
That early Feburary, Martin Luther King Jr. was quoted to me from somewhere, maybe it was TV, or a website or someone I talked to... I don't remember. I do remember thinking long and hard about that quote. Would I walk up a stair on faith? Would I believe that the top was safe, or that the goal was reachable? King did a lot of amazing work and it was all because he had faith in his cause, faith in reaching the top of the stair. Upon more reflection, I considered that there was at least one staircase which perhaps King shouldn't have had faith in... one that went up to the second floor of the Lorraine Motel. Faith in making life better, faith in humans, his faith that he could make a difference, his faith in a stairway hidden in darkness led to his death. I wonder if his faith in the afterlife has served him any better since then? For if no afterlife exists, if there's no heaven, no hell and no second, third or fourth ride on this crazy merry-go-round... then why have faith in anything? Why make any struggle, why try for change? Why climb the stair?
I knew that, for me, if I could never climb the stair, then life wouldn't seem worth living. If I could never take a chance, if I could never walk the road less traveled... then why would I want to continue to exist?
Then one day an answer dawned on me. I was full of the spirit of Eris and engaged in sketching. Without really thinking about it, I sketched a long spiral staircase shrouded in blackness at the top. I sketched a man, standing at the base and then, as She What Done It All blew a Wind right through my Mind, I realized that I would climb the stair because:
"Curiosity is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
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In those days, The Goddess spoke unto her Children saying, "The World of Hunchbraind Man is like the land of the Box Wearers."
To which the Children of Eris said, "Huh?"
And so the Goddess gave unto her children the gifts of vision through the non-prophetess Mary. Then they saw, and look! There was a room large and spacious, the walls of the room were filled with murals of fantasy and paradise. There was fresh drinks and snacks laid out on a table and a library full of wisdom stood along one wall. Inside this room were five people, each with a large cardboard box covering their heads. They stood against the wall feeling their way along, calling to their companions for direction.
One spoke to the four saying, "We have called out to the Great Ones and they have provided us with protection from the ills of the world. Let us pray to our Almighty Saviours."
The second of the five spoke, saying "Holy and Sacred is the Cardboard Box which keeps us safe from harm. Cursed is anyone who would forsake their Box."
The Third, having lost contact with the wall turned toward the voice of his companions and cried out, "I am lost, I am lost! Woe is me, for I have lost contact with the Wall!."
The others called out in fright and begged him to follow the sound of their voices in order that they might direct him to safety. He reached out his arms in front of him and began walking toward the voices. However, as he stepped toward his friends, he tripped over a low coffee table that lie between them and the pain was very great for that man. So one of his companions said unto him, "Do not come nearer then if you are in danger, we shall come to you."
So then it was that the first two approached the third, arms outstreched, following his voice. Then they too, mashed their shins on the other side of the coffee table, and there was much gnashing of teeth and wailing.
The fourth listining to all of this, spoke quietly unto the fifth saying, "Umm, that didn't sound good at all. I thought these boxes were to protect us?" and the fifth repiled, " Right on, man. I'm not too sure about this box thing."
The first three heard these words and called out in anger "How dare you question the sacred box! From early generations our forefathers have seen the wisdom and protection with these Boxes. They have been given to us by the Savior!"
The fifth said, "I am really unhappy with this box. I want to see what this room looks like!"
The first spoke piously, "There is nothing good to see in this room, there is a great danger in even looking upon it. The horrors will destroy you!"
"But, how do you know?" the fourth asked, "Have you taken your box off?"
"The first recoiled in horror, "How dare you insinuate that I would remove this gift from God!"
The fifth sighed and said "Well, at the very least, I am gonna cut a couple of holes in the front of this thing, so I don't trip over that coffee table!"
The second howled, "He would deface his body! He would damage himself, because he thinks he is better than us. It is not permissible!"
The fifth, however, picked up a pair of sissors and began to cut into the cardboard. Among threats and cries that he would poke out his eye, he continued cutting. The fourth stood quietly beside him and the other three franticly felt their way along the wall to catch hold of the rebel. Then as one hole then the other came free. The Fifth man saw and his voice spoke, cracking with emotion. "I see beyond the corraguated curtain! There are many beautiful things. There is so much that has been placed here for us, pleasure, knowledge, beauty!" Then he saw the Box Wearers heading toward him, feeling along the wall and shouting for his arrest for defacing his box.
Eris then took the Children away and made sure they all had a stiff drink. "Do you understand the vision?" she asked, after their fifth shot.
St Gullick transformed from his roach-like visage into that of a man. He spoke as St. Tibbs saying "Indeed my Goddess, the vision was clear, for those that hold to their dogmas are like the Box Wearers, afraid to let go of what they perceive to be safe, all the while crashing into things and damning those who wish to see without the restriction of Dogma."
Eris looked upon her Messenger Saint and sighed. "Do you understand the Vision, Omar?" She asked Omar K Ravenhurst. He thought for a minute and spoke, "Well, perhaps we all can be like the fifth man, by cutting through some of the Dogmatic ideas about whats real, we may find knowledge, beauty and pleasure."
Eris ordered another round, shaking her head sadly, finally she looked to Mal-2. "Mal, you are my best beloved. You more than anyone understand the un-understandable. What is the meaning of of the vision? Mal-2 smiled and spoke quietly saying, "One should not have coffee tables in the room when wandering around with a cardboard box on ones head." Speaking thusly, he took another shot and dozed off.
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Not every revolution wins.
Not even if they're the good guys.
They may have the most just cause
or the most liberated view
but it doesn't mean that they will win.
Revolution against tyranny,
revolution against injustice,
revolution against unfairness,
revolution by the power-seekers,
aimed at the power holders,
using the powerless for pawns.
In my revolution,
I was the power seeker.
I was the power holder.
I was the powerless
pawn.
The revolution is over.
I won.
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And "The Erisian Pantheon Grows"
which I actually found a link to:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13402.msg427671#msg427671 (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13402.msg427671#msg427671)
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12969.msg410442#msg410442
Maybe?
and let's not forget the Limerick thread for more marginalia
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=15264.0
Wow you guys, this is some seriously good shit.
Cast: Ryan Seacrest
Simon Cowell
Randy Jackson
Paula Abdul
Smug Religionists of various stripes
The Bovine Millions
ACT 1 SCENE 1.
RS: Hi! I'm Ryan Seacrest...and when I'm not busy
pretending to date Teri Hatcher (catch her in season 3
of Desparate Housewives), I like to host this new
show......
FALSE IDOL
(Cue opening credits & music. CGI montage of various
religious symbols, figures, institutions etc)
RS: Tonight, we begin the search to find America's
best prophet/cult leader/whacko. Here's what happened
at our New York auditions.
ACT 1 SCENE 2.
(sweeping camera shots of hundreds of devotees hanging
around outside on the street, waving to the TV crew
and clutching their scriptures & audition number
sheets)
(interior shot: religious hopefuls sat waiting inside
building. RS approaches)
RS: Hi, I'm the entirely heterosexual Ryan Seacrest.
Contestant 1: (dismissive glare)
RS: Err...uhh...what's your name?
C1: I'm AL Aqbar Jihadi! Silence you fornicating
western dog!!
(Seacrest looks askance into camera and backs away
slowly)
ACT 1 SCENE 3 (inside audtion room. the judges are
behind a desk drinking COCA COLA, except paula who is
drinking vodka out of a brown paper bag. simon is
looking bored)
SC: Okay Contestant 1. What is your name and where are
you from?
C1: I AM AL AQBAR JIHADI! I AM 24 YEARS OLD AND I'M
FROM WISCONSIN!!
SC: [bemused]
RJ: Aight dawg...let's hear it.
PA: I LURRVE YUO!
C1: ALLAH WILL SEVER THE HEAD FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN
SATAN!! HE WILL BOIL YOUR STOMACHS IN HELL!!! THE
BLOOD OF 234 GAZILLION MUSLIMS IS ON YOUR HANDS!!!
SC. Stop! Stop! STOP!! That was the WORST koranic
sabre rattling I've heard in months. It was just
appauling Osama-karaoke.
PA: I LIKE YOUR SHOES!!
RJ: Ok dawg, check it out. I recorded with Khomeni
back in '79 and you just didn't bring it tonight.
SC: You're not even Middle Eastern, are you?
C1: F*** you! You don't know nothin' about me! I've
got more theological talent than all of you
motherf*****s.
[C1 exits]
(cuts to advert by Ford. Carrie Underwood is ploughed
down by Kermit the Frog driving a hybrid SUV)
ACT 1 SCENE 4.
(back to the audition room)
PA: I HATE YUO [girlie punches SC in the arm]
[the next contestant arrives]
C2: Repent!! Repent!! You must realize that God sent
his only son Jesus because of his love for
mankind....and if you don't....then well, you'll
BURN!!! ALL THE HOMOS, JEWS & LIBERALS WILL BURN!!
MWAA HAAA HAA HAA...THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD!!
The Judges: ???
[security takes C2 away, but not before administering
a Rodney King-esque beat down]
PA: Byee!!!!! [hiccups]
ACT 2 SCENE 1.
(It is the near the end of the day, the judges are
weary, Paula is only a shot glass away from
unconsciousness. C3 arrives)
SC: And you are?
C3: Elijah Greenbaum.
SC: And what are you going to do for us tonight?
C3: I'd like to do a song entitled 'Counting the
nostril hairs of Yahweh.'
SC: NEXT!
ACT 2 SCENE 2.
[hundreds of clips edited together - buddhists,
newagers, wiccans, hindus, toltec shaman etc etc are
all chastised by Simon's threatening English accent]
ACT 2 SCENE 3.
RJ: This is the last one I'm hearing today.
PA: [is hunched over the desk, partially undressed]
SC: If this f****** shite show doesn't pick up soon,
I'm f****** going back to London tonight.
[C4 appears]
SC: [very impatient...yes, even more than usual]
RJ: What's up dawg......etc?
C4: Everyone is in a Black Iron Prison....except me
SC: Oh thank f*** for that. You're through to the next
round.
Did I write this? It seems really familiar to me and it seems that I might've written it, but I'm not sure. Did I post this at RWHN's old BIP site before it went legs up?
If it's me, then an SSOOKN credit would be nice. If I'm bogarting someone else's credit...well...ha! Should've moved faster.....(kidding)
I would like to suggest two more pieces I wrote, if I may . . .
The first is one of my Alternate Snubs (#5 to be exact):
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=6414.0 (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=6414.0)
And, the second is called Modern Sisyphus:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=8366.0 (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=8366.0)
I hope they please those who are putting the book together.
Also, was it Hoops that did 5 new versions of the Snub?
That would be a good add.
It was me.
Although I'm not pleased with Alternate Snub #1, so if you actually want all of them (I believe they are currently napping on page 2 of the Literate Chao) I would like to re-write that one. I think #5 is the best, which is why I only mentioned that one.
I loved both of those, Hoopla! Thanks.
I get the feeling it may be an almost insurmountable task to put together a pamphlet that is funny to anyone who reads it. One kind of person may be turned off by the mythological setting of Snub #5, whereas another kind of person may not get "Modern Sisyphus" just because the characters are stoned.
These may not be the best examples but you know what I mean. Maybe the dream of a single all-enROFLing Lollercaust is not something realistically attainable? Maybe it would be better to target a few specific sub-culture groups and write pamphlets specifically targeted at each, with in-jokes at all? The humor of the Internet age is, after all, mostly made of in-jokes.
I was thinking about doing a Discordian send-up of The Lady of Shallot, but it might take me a while.
Quote from: Nigel on February 19, 2008, 11:12:39 PM
I was thinking about doing a Discordian send-up of The Lady of Shallot, but it might take me a while.
BVH
-intrigued
Quote from: st.verbatim on February 19, 2008, 09:46:12 PM
I loved both of those, Hoopla! Thanks.
I get the feeling it may be an almost insurmountable task to put together a pamphlet that is funny to anyone who reads it. One kind of person may be turned off by the mythological setting of Snub #5, whereas another kind of person may not get "Modern Sisyphus" just because the characters are stoned.
These may not be the best examples but you know what I mean. Maybe the dream of a single all-enROFLing Lollercaust is not something realistically attainable? Maybe it would be better to target a few specific sub-culture groups and write pamphlets specifically targeted at each, with in-jokes at all? The humor of the Internet age is, after all, mostly made of in-jokes.
Then perhaps it would be a good idea to make the Lollercaust into a series, with sections organized by types of humor. There would be a common thread running through all of them (even if it's just a footnote that says "Part of the Lollercaust"), but we could maximize the effectiveness of various flavors of Discordian literature by combining them. Some people like stories about Eris, some people like stories about people whom Eris screwed with, some people like lunatic rants, and the list goes on.
Quote from: Hoopla on February 19, 2008, 11:35:20 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 19, 2008, 11:12:39 PM
I was thinking about doing a Discordian send-up of The Lady of Shallot, but it might take me a while.
BVH
-intrigued
What is "BVH"?
"Baron Von Hoopla"
Though I think he lost his Baron title in a card game to Enrico?
Ah, excellent.
I have the file open and awaiting time and inspiration; I imagine it will roll fairly well once I get going, but it is long as fuck.
Quote from: keeper entropic on February 20, 2008, 05:49:48 AM
"Baron Von Hoopla"
Though I think he lost his Baron title in a card game to Enrico?
This is true, but "-H" looks odd, so I tend to still shorten it the way I used to. Sorry Nigel.
I am enlightened! :)
Well, since no one else has said anything... I'm game. I'll start compiling stuff etc today. :) Post things that are LOLERCAUST worthy, send me PM's with stuff... whatever.
Also, we seem light on silly essay length pieces... One or two page pieces would be very helpful :fnord:
:fnord:We Also Need Images/Banners/Other Things to Fill Margins :fnord:
Maybe some of our memebombs as banners anyone?
I just copied all of this. It's going onto my ereader.
Yes, I now read longer posts while IRL.
Fuck you, don't laugh at me.
More parables and stories with Eris would be useful!
I was inspired last night while putting the LOLERCAUST together, the version I am compiling currently is under the working title:
LOLERCAUST: The Red Letter Edition (wherein everything Eris says in in red letters)
That was, I think better than:
LOLERCAUST: Because 6 Million Dead Jews Are Teh Funnay
:eek:
1) it's LOLLERCAUST with double-L
2) no, the 6 million dead jews one would definitely not get my approval [even though i'm a bastard that would make puns like these IRL, it's not something you wanna subtitle an important pamphlet with]
3) it would be nice if it could be printed in black/white, so i dunno about red letters. but i like the idea behind it.
OK, adding the extra L.
Black and White :(
There's gotta be a BGP quote or two that would be appropriate for Lollercaust.
Take your pick.
World: OMFG!!!1
God: ?
World: I shld liek ttly kill myslf!!!!11
God: This idea is full of win and awesome.
World: I'm such a huge stoopit DOOOOSSSHHHHH@@@@2 I prolly wnt evn se it comin
God: I havfe faith in you. Howre u gonna doit?
World: U kno all that shit u sed not 2 do?
God: yzz...
World: ima go do it
God: lolzzz
God: U gonna sow mingeld seeds & wear blended fibers?
World: Lvtcs 19:19, FTW
God: That will give you the AIDS.
World: I thout gay sex did tht
God: that's just a urban legend
God: Gay sexx jus makes u a homo
World: Rofflezzzzzzz!!!2
God: ROFELLLLLO0llLOlLZoLO|0|0|0\ZZZOlOlOLZZZZZzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!®
World:
:lol:
That made me chuckle.
twas quite chuckle worthy :)
No chuckles. :sad:
This is right up Steve Jackson's alley.
I think it could be better.
The basic idea is that the world wans to destroy itself and God is egging it on in a quasi-sardonic hypersilly IRC chat setting.
In the end was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was "lol".
:emo: :emo: :retard: :emo: :emo:
Jerry_Frankster,
This concept seems to work really well with a lot of what we have for LOLLERCAUST. Cain did a sort of scripture, I have some crowley style spoof, moar fake religious stuff for LULZ!!!!!
Also, I am still looking for images for sidelines or anything else we can add.
Some LOLCATs can be created...
Too tired to go and do it now, but a few lines could be
"im in ur hed, steelin ur illuzins"
"im in ur govermint, eetin ur freedumz"
"badcat is bad"
"pipecat c'est ne pas une pipe"
"pipecat is pipe not cat"
"lulzcat is lulz"
(some of these may be unfunny.)
or would real lolcats take too much space and detail to work?
I have this feeling in my gut* that a year from now, everyone will consider lolcats a really dated reference. An enduring internet fad, but a fad nonetheless.
That being said, some anti-lolcats humor might have a more long life for humor.
One of my favorites is a big fat cat with the caption "I'm just a cat. Stop anthropomorphizing me."
Maybe captions like MEOW
or maybe the caption MEOW on really weird or silly looking people?
I have a feeling even this has been done already.
* hope?
I First drew this "have a nice day" mushroom cloud back in high school. I just recently added the caption.
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I'd rather not use internet memes, but that's just my opinon...
I concur.
We should be creating the memes, not re-hashing old ones.
Yeah, I'm down with that too. IMO, we don't want to focus solely on an internet community. Ideally, we want to cast the net wide. If you thought the Black Iron Prison turned people off because it was "too dark", I think you would find a similar situation with people who aren't all a twitter about the internet. I mean, I know personally I probably wouldn't consider reading something that had a lot of internet jargon/gags in it. But that's just my take on it.
Now, we could adopt the lolcat concept (picture with random comment), and use it for our own purposes.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 06, 2008, 02:29:43 PM
Yeah, I'm down with that too. IMO, we don't want to focus solely on an internet community. Ideally, we want to cast the net wide. If you thought the Black Iron Prison turned people off because it was "too dark", I think you would find a similar situation with people who aren't all a twitter about the internet. I mean, I know personally I probably wouldn't consider reading something that had a lot of internet jargon/gags in it. But that's just my take on it.
True enough, I tried to explain LAIL and LULZ to non-internet people and they were . . . unthrilled, to say the least.
Well, there's no way to avoid getting dated (its just how reality works)... but I think the assessment of LOLCAT sounds about right. Of course, if we're titling it LOLlercaust, then one might expect LOL's and Internet humor.... hrmmm.
Some might, others might think it'a another crazy project started by Perry Farrel.
I dunno, trying to make a pamphlet that can still be relevant in a few years (not to mention funny) is a bit of an impossibility... I shouldn't say this kind of thing but...maybe there should be one short-term edition with anything we find funny right now, and another long-term edition with things we suspect will last longer?
Or, we start a habit of new pamphlets annually or whatever....
Apparently, during the late 70's and 80's (according to ancient and wise (in some ways) Discordians that I know) there were constantly new Discordian pamphlets. None as popular as the PD, but many, many other odd short writings. The only surviving piece I've found so far is the "Discordian Moosemas Handbook", but there were (apparently) others.
That which doesn't constantly change, runs the risk of stagnancy. As easily as we might stagnate on Fnord and Pineal or 23 ZOMG5... we might also stagnate on the BiP or anything else we write about. The only cure to such a risk (as far as I can tell) is to avoid stagnation through forward motion. Avoid stagnation by creating new pamphlets that may or may not reference old ones... or even, necessarily, the ideas in old ones.
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 06, 2008, 03:15:15 PM
Well, there's no way to avoid getting dated (its just how reality works)... but I think the assessment of LOLCAT sounds about right. Of course, if we're titling it LOLlercaust, then one might expect LOL's and Internet humor.... hrmmm.
the way i see it, "holocaust" is some sort of german festival, and "LOL" is the dutch word for "fun".
i see no internets ANYWHERE
;-)
000, I strongly suggest you write a foreward to Lollercaust explaining that it is of Duch origen, and anyone who things differently is clearly an idiot.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3459144.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3459144.ece)
Heh, looks like the other 'similar' term is free for reuse these days anyway.
Hrmmm... we may also have to include something like:
"... and now back to the shoah" coming from a televison set or something ;-)
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 06, 2008, 07:19:08 PM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3459144.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3459144.ece)
Heh, looks like the other 'similar' term is free for reuse these days anyway.
YAY! the jackboot's on the other foot now :lulz:
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 06, 2008, 07:21:12 PM
Hrmmm... we may also have to include something like:
"... and now back to the shoah" coming from a televison set or something ;-)
This line of thinking is quickly destroying the chances of me ever translating this pamphlet for distribution in Israel. :(
So, throw it over the wall to Gaza.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I wouldn't be surprised if we get called anti-Semites just for the term LOLLERCAUST.
After being called Racists for the Black Iron Prison logo, that would not surprise me.
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 06, 2008, 08:32:50 PM
After being called Racists for the Black Iron Prison logo, that would not surprise me.
LOL I almost forgot about that!
Quote from: triple zero on March 06, 2008, 06:57:08 PMthe way i see it, "holocaust" is some sort of german festival
:lulz:
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 06, 2008, 01:36:33 AM
or maybe the caption MEOW on really weird or silly looking people?
I have a feeling even this has been done already.
It has, 'cause I do it, but I don't know if it's original to me.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=15484.0
Something new, linked here for archival purposes.
Quote from: Requiem on March 09, 2008, 11:08:53 PM
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=15484.0
Something new, linked here for archival purposes.
What is this crap? Owait... I wrote it.
In other news, Jack of Turnips is the best potential contributor to Lollercaust that I can think of, because I've read a fair amount of his stuff (on PD.com and Uncyclopedia). It's pretty much all brilliantly funny and insightful.
Jack, if you're reading this, we need YUOR help! Inspiration is available free of charge!
(http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/821/lollercaustnewspaperlayqf5.jpg) (http://mihd.net/gws7bru)
Layout Concept #1 (full size newsprint sketch) *Click image to download*
I still may transmogrify the content several other directions.
looks great!
just, question, layout is square, how do i print this without a special printer?
also i thought that the bit that says "FALL 2008" said "FAIL 2008" at first, maybe a nice idea :)
and i'm not entirely sure, but i think we have more text than what fits on this page, or not?
I love it!
What program do you use, btw? That same adobe one you passed to DCup all those months ago?
The layout I was using wasn't nearly that good, which program did you use?
The layout might be good for the multiple small releases of lollercaust someone mentioned earlier.
You could also do it with multiple pages in a pamphlet style.
if it's InDesign, it would be cool if you could throw the .indd file somewhere, preferably in a ZIP file together with the fonts you used.
Quote from: triple zero on March 25, 2008, 12:43:10 PM
looks great!
just, question, layout is square, how do i print this without a special printer?
also i thought that the bit that says "FALL 2008" said "FAIL 2008" at first, maybe a nice idea :)
and i'm not entirely sure, but i think we have more text than what fits on this page, or not?
This is actually a full size newspaper 23" x 23" so you'd need to use a printer that architects use, though ideally it would be printed on newsprint to keep costs down. I was thinking that minimally, it would be two pages of this size, printed on both sides and folded twice as most newspapers are. The grey boxes would be art (photographers and illustrators HALP PLS!) and the ads would be satirical.
I also have another concept that I have developed much farther than this one that also requires a wide format printer (minimally 8' long). These printers actually are much more common than people think. You just have to leave the cool glow of your computer screen and call some local printers up. If that's too much to ask, I could probably mail some folks small quantities of 'em. The perceived convenience of printing something of this your size on your work or home printer would start to get more complicated once you have to deal with binding all those pages together. The newsprint and my second concept avoid the binding issue, you just have to fold instead.
ETA: You can still print this out, just for approximation purposes not publishing, by ticking the "Scale to Fit Page" box.
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 25, 2008, 05:48:03 PM
I love it!
What program do you use, btw? That same adobe one you passed to DCup all those months ago?
I think I recommended Scribus, which isn't quite as nice as InDesign. If at all possible, InDesign or QuarkXPress are the way to go.
And :thanks:
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 25, 2008, 06:09:45 PM
The layout I was using wasn't nearly that good, which program did you use?
It wasn't a template if that's what you were thinking. I built that bitch myself from the ground up with InDesign.
Quote from: Requiem on March 25, 2008, 06:22:36 PM
The layout might be good for the multiple small releases of lollercaust someone mentioned earlier.
You could also do it with multiple pages in a pamphlet style.
This is a great idea. It might be best to do it in smaller portions, regardless of how it's produced. But if we want it all in one go, the newspaper format is one of the most flexible and cheap.
I would actually go pay to have a newspaper printed, because I love print. BUT... I think it might be best to have it in a format where regular people can print it out and distribute it without going to a print shop. We have to remove as many hoops as possible between the text and people reading the text.
Quote from: triple zero on March 25, 2008, 07:21:08 PM
if it's InDesign, it would be cool if you could throw the .indd file somewhere, preferably in a ZIP file together with the fonts you used.
Sure. What version of InDesign do you have?
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 25, 2008, 09:13:00 PM
I would actually go pay to have a newspaper printed, because I love print. BUT... I think it might be best to have it in a format where regular people can print it out and distribute it without going to a print shop. We have to remove as many hoops as possible between the text and people reading the text.
That was my primary concern too. This should be super accessible so anybody can publish it.
But the problem there is that Lollercaust probably will be pretty long, so if it's done on a bunch of smaller pages they'll need to be bound together, rather than just folded a few times. So people probably would need to deal with a print shop anyway, to get it bound.
Brainstorm Idea: What if we publish Lollercaust as a series of issues? Almost like a zine. But not a zine we intend on publishing regularly - just, you know, as people finish it. In the end, issues could be three-hole-punched and stuffed in a binder to make a book.
In que with the original proposed theme, I also want to start brainstorming topics in modern society which make one both laugh and scream. Here's a great example:
Elliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, was known and noted as a heroic politician willing to take corrupt politicians and corporations to the mat. Before he was the governor, he was a lawyer who specialized in cases which would improve the public good. Predictably, Spitzer himself was corrupt and resigned from office after he was outed as a regular client of a prostitution ring. The kicker is that he never would have been caught if not for the patriot act.
Thank St. Zarathud (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/47.php) that the LAW finally caught that criminal!
:lulz:
We could go several directions at once with this thing too. A zine style, a newspaper style, shit, maybe even a small number of carefully bound books.
Moar Brainstorming (even the most hair brained scheme ought to be mentioned):
Who is this publication for? What kind of people would dig this stuff? Who ISN'T this publication for?
Imagine yourself distributing this in the future. Where would you be?
What specific impression do we want to leave people with when they glance at the cover?
Indesign: version 2.0 (it's old, but does the trick)
about a zine: easiest thing i found to use is a double-sided A4 paper, folded in half. gives you 4 A5 pages to layout, so you can make a lot of different issues.
we need to make two formats, one for A4 and one for the american size (Letter, right?)
one time when i organized the introduction weeks for my students club (the theme was "nonsense", we had capes .. it was awesome) we released two of these A4-fold-in-half "newspapers" a week.
Quote from: Netaungrot on March 25, 2008, 09:44:06 PM
We could go several directions at once with this thing too. A zine style, a newspaper style, shit, maybe even a small number of carefully bound books.
Moar Brainstorming (even the most hair brained scheme ought to be mentioned):
Who is this publication for? What kind of people would dig this stuff? Who ISN'T this publication for?
Imagine yourself distributing this in the future. Where would you be?
What specific impression do we want to leave people with when they glance at the cover?
I'd leave it on the train for others to find. When the weather's nice, I make a habit of hitting bus and train stops to unload propaganda. I'd like it to be written for the general public, but not necessarily in the TONE of stuff written for the general public. But also not blatantly rude, offensive, or holier-than-thou, as those are killers for any tract.
I want people to read it and think, "Man, this is a crazy fucked up world we're living in. I thought stuff was bad. Then it got worse. Now it's HILARIOUS."
A lot of the text we've assembled is funny or Discordian or whatever, and that's fine, but IMO we need a little bit more text that makes you laugh and scream at the same time.
If we're going for a modular publication (ie, we release one book or chapter or pamphlet or issue at a time), each unit should contain at least:
-5 images
-5 meme bombs / marginalia
-some wisdom
-some humor
-something to get you fired up
-something to make you laugh at the situation
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 25, 2008, 10:24:45 PM
I want people to read it and think, "Man, this is a crazy fucked up world we're living in. I thought stuff was bad. Then it got worse. Now it's HILARIOUS."
the lollercaust is all about the coming of apocalips
(http://www.ispub.com/xml/journals/ijps/vol1n2/lips-fig5.jpg)
:x
X-POST FROM the spag thread (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13084.msg497211#msg497211)
:horrormirth:
one of these, perhaps?
They wouldn't let me bring my medication on the plane!
/
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/horrormirth4-1.gif)
College tuition is rising while the quality of education is falling
/
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/horrormirth3-1.gif)
\
LETS GET DRUNK
the goatse man is wearing a wedding ring!
/
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/horrormirth2-1.gif)
At least I don't have cancer
/
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yet!
Folded Cover
(http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5857/lollercaustpamphletconczc0.jpg)
Cover - Front & Back
(http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7599/lollercaustpamphletconcwc0.png)
Layout example
(http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/4953/lollercaustpamphletconcah9.jpg)
A cover and layout concept. More of a sketch that I'm looking for feedback on. Do you think the inside is too sparse? I'm open to suggestions, criticisms, pisstaking, etc.
Download link (http://mihd.net/7m6jnuf) in case you want to proof it on your printer (since I can't connect to the CWYOHBA ftp it's MIHD for you).
I need to reinstall Photoshop because I gave my computer a near fatal stroke (it was very close), and now it's fading my pictures. Luckily it has made nearly a full recovery. That blue should be pure intense cyan.
Also, if you're wondering who the fuck Steven Silverwood is, he's the buttmunch who made the pixel images. Here are his conditions for using his art, word for word:
Quote
PIXEL FREAKS 18PX
Hello you dirty little snowballers.
This 18px font was created by Steven Silverwood.
This is freeware, so feel free to ware it.
If you wish to use this as part of a graphics project
then you must include the words -
'FONT BY STEVEN SILVERWOOD' in massive letters.
More of my fonts will get posted as soon I as I can be arsed.
Choke on 'em!
19.2.04
And, I know this is a lot, but it comes with the territory. The photograph is by Hans Starck, so we'd need to get his permission and probably the model's in order to use it. It's just a stand in.
Put "By Steve Silverwood" in really massive letters and the "font" bit in normal/smallish letters.
lol-swastika is fkin awesome! :lulz:
yeah! can someone make a rotating version?
Regret,
too lazy to develop programming skills
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/schickelgruber.jpg)
while very funny, i don't think i wanna be seen distributing a pamphlet with a swastika on the cover. even if it's made of LOLs.
especially if we're going to use the same tactic as we have often done, which is leave it lying around at random places, you can bet that a pamphlet with a swastika on the cover is going to end up in a trashbin significantly quicker and more often than one without.
if you really must include the LOL swastika, do it somewhere on the inside, so at least it will be encountered by someone who has read the introduction and doesn't just "trash that nazi junk" without even giving it a second glance.
Or, you can match it with a "THAT'S RACIST!"
BTW, if you think the lolstika might seem offensive, don't you think "Lollercaust" would have the same effect?
It's not as immediately offensive as visual symbols.
Also the word holocaust, although originating in the deathcamps, has kinds grown in scope since then probably largely down to the coining of that wonderful phrase "nuclear holocaust".
I don't think lollercaust would ruffle the same feathers as the lolstika.
Unless we combine the two together :evil:
"lollercaust - 4,000,000 jews didn't see the funny side - will you?"
I laughed at that.
I am a very bad person.
:thanks: I pride myself in bringing out the worst in people
Quote from: LMNO on March 27, 2008, 06:54:13 PMOr, you can match it with a "THAT'S RACIST!"
BTW, if you think the lolstika might seem offensive, don't you think "Lollercaust" would have the same effect?
i dunno [cause i can't really compare either way] but i may not be too far from the truth by saying that the swastika is still kind of similar to the n-word over here.
either way, from a purely practical point of view, something with a swastika on the cover HAS very increased chances of being thrown away if you leave it lying around randomly in public transport.
the word lollercaust, while doubtful, is different than a swastika (although the font Net used in the newspaper version probably strikes a bit too close to home as well)
don't get me wrong, i appreciate the pun, but IMO just the word "lollercaust" is enough WW2 references for me, add anything more "flavour" to that and you will seriously start sharing graphics design territory with the neonazis.
And I live in Germany, it would be illegal for me to print out something with swastikas on it I think.
I guess we'll keep that for the "secret inner teachings".
I thought the lol swastika might be too much.
I like the idea of burying it further in the pamphlet, 000.
But it's also important for our German comrades to be able to participate.
Lol swastika has officially been discontinued for Lollercaust pamphletage.
I love the lolstika. :(
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2008, 11:12:56 PM
I love the lolstika. :(
FUCK YOU MY JEWISH GRANDPA WAS KILLED BY A FLYING LOLSTIKA
It's a shame, cos it's such an awesome symbol, but I agree the lolstika should go. Damn fkin small minded whiny pussies still butthurt over a little mass carnage that happened over six generations ago.
Get ovar it already you spoilsports :argh!:
Quote from: Netaungrot on March 27, 2008, 09:30:22 PM
I thought the lol swastika might be too much.
I like the idea of burying it further in the pamphlet, 000.
But it's also important for our German comrades to be able to participate.
Lol swastika has officially been discontinued for Lollercaust pamphletage.
i really dug your previous post of the possible cover and inside.....
the cover is cool.!!!!! : mittens :
and to add the constructive criticism, i don't think (ever) that the inside is too sparse, tis coolade incarnate. : mittens :
but as cool as the lolstika is, yeah lots of people would just dismiss it as antisemitism out of hand, and not even give it a chance.
im not sure who's working on it, but hows the content compilation going (whoeveritisdoingit?)
[edit] - append
oh and this post of mine also applies for the distribution of the lollercaust:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=15729.0
what you peeps think?
I think Rat was doing the compiling.
Hey, here's an idea: how about taking the "fist-punching-swastika" Antifa symbol (which is both legal and common in Germany) and turning that into a lolstika? I can't find an image of the symbol atm, but they're all over this city. Worst comes to worse I'll snap a pic of one next time I see it.
my best friend used to have such a gegen-nazis patch but he got beat up for it, eedjots didn't see the difference between this and teh swastika
Well there's a few gegen Nazis patches floating around. The one I have in mind is a fist, coming in from the left, smashing a swastika on the right which is seen broken in two pieces. The fist is the more prominent part of the image.
The idea of a fist smashing the lolstika is good.
Ah, I found it. The fist is actually coming in from the right-hand side: link (http://www.vvn-bda.de/shop/shop/show_product.php?products_id=128)
I wonder how well it would lend itself to lolification.
Found this while digging through archives.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=7645.msg261198#msg261198
Quote from: st.verbatim on March 29, 2008, 04:15:47 PM
Well there's a few gegen Nazis patches floating around. The one I have in mind is a fist, coming in from the left, smashing a swastika on the right which is seen broken in two pieces. The fist is the more prominent part of the image.
yeah but the point of the lollercaust is ALSO NOT to make a statement
against nazis.
not that we like nazis
but it's not about nazis either. it's just the funny title, can't we just sort of leave it at that?
But the fist smashing the LOL! It's the LOLLERCAUST! Maybe the LOL should be smashing the FIST.
maybe it should be a LOL and a FIST smashing something else, an apple perhaps.
Hand gripping the LOL and smashing it into an apple?
maybe they should smash a pangolin, because those things are so retarded.
Indeed. They look like artichokes, but in mammal-form.
been trying to think of something edgy, along the lines of the nazi thing but not so outright offensive...
cue the "ways of making you laugh" viral primer
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/thehappychair.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/butthurt.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wetyourself.jpg)
Okay, those are deliciously horrible.
:mittens:
btw, 000, the point wasn't to be against Nazis. It was to be against the Lollercaust.
but the lollercaust is a good thing?
well yes but we want them to like it for what its worth so if we get them to start disliking it then if they start liking it we at least know they like it for its merits and not just because our marketing skills convinced them its likeable.
Also, self-deprecation is cool.
Naw, I just think it will be amusing and relatively inoffensive. Also, it will piss off the antifascists, possibly enough for them to open and read the pamphlet.
Quote from: triple zero on March 30, 2008, 03:58:55 AM
maybe they should smash a pangolin, because those things are so retarded.
SACRILEGE!!!
Pangolins are for raping, not smashing.
a cool concept for lollercaust images. hitler + cool hat = comedy.
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(http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/ebfa4a93b53ddba4daf0ec4386a3b6f92c137975_m.jpg)
Quote from: barumunk on March 31, 2008, 02:14:59 PM
a cool concept for lollercaust images. hitler + cool hat = comedy.
/
(http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/ebfa4a93b53ddba4daf0ec4386a3b6f92c137975_m.jpg)
Amusing. I like the graphic simplicity and the fact that it's black and white.
But we're going to need to start generating our own art at some point. Art that helps explain what a particular writer is saying.
Art for art sake that's relevant to Lollercaust also can be included, but our first priority is black and white illustrations to go with the writing.
Collage, line art, photography, monotone painting, whatever people like to do— it just needs to fit in a space at the largest of 5.25" wide x 8" tall and express the main ideas of a Lollercaust article. You can keep a copyright on it and everything. I'll even post and sign legal forms if people want to make sure (wiff a bullet) that their work cannot be used for any other purposes except in a way they approve of in a particular run of Lollercaust pamphlets.
good point.
we need a list of stuff that's going to be in, then. i would pick one piece that i think i could make a cool drawing for and submit one.
yeah wasn't implying using non original images (i totally agree with the images needing to relate Specificly to each sermon/piece) But external images that are relevant for brainstorming and act as creative juice anti-coagulants.
I'd very much like to contribute graphically, so once the content starts looking (vaguely finalized) it'd be cool if a sort of table of contents could be posted, so as "graphic contributers" can produce relevant accompanying visuals.
A multiple choice brief if you will.
I feel you barumunk.
I just wanted to be explicit.
I think this might work best if the artists found stuff out of the pool gathered by Cramulus and just jumped on stuff that they like.
But those editorially inclined could help too by making suggestions as to what ought to go in the first pamphlet.
An attack from both angles if you will.
kul, also:
it may be attributable to my laziness, but i also think that part of the reason stuff is rather hard to "organize" is lack of process, and im sure you can note that most of my input in this thread is in that vein. anyway that leads me to propose the following:
how about (teh modz) update the OP with the "proposed" content. so as us plebeians can debate and comment and flame the choices,
what you all think.? it would be an ongoing process. which would allow the majority to know whats happening and how its progressing (if at all).
or just ignore me :)
If we want actually effective processes, someone has to take on the role of editor and lay out how it's going to work so the rest of us can join in.
I don't feel equal to that task, but I'm an editor at heart and I'd be glad to take up proofreading/editing for pieces that are to be included.
I think LMNO and RWHN have had experience in putting together publications like this.
They also carry some seniority around here so maybe we could light a fire under their ass and get one of them to choose the pieces for the first pamphlet.
Or somebody who's interested.
I'll keep on developing the layouts in the meantime.
Quote from: barumunk on April 01, 2008, 04:27:43 PM
kul, also:
it may be attributable to my laziness, but i also think that part of the reason stuff is rather hard to "organize" is lack of process, and im sure you can note that most of my input in this thread is in that vein. anyway that leads me to propose the following:
how about (teh modz) update the OP with the "proposed" content. so as us plebeians can debate and comment and flame the choices,
what you all think.? it would be an ongoing process. which would allow the majority to know whats happening and how its progressing (if at all).
or just ignore me :)
Cram listed a bunch of potential pieces at the beginning of this thread.
We just need to narrow it down some.
Lolmanji?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Buddhism
Protip: If you think something should be done, DO IT YOURSELF.
Most of use consider the text on this site is Kopyleft (I know TGRR's isn't, though).
I put together the first BIP pamphlet in Word, for fuck's sake. Syn took it and ran with it from there.
Grab what you like, cobble it together, and present it. Without a doubt, someone will add to it, make suggestions, host it on their webpage, whatever.
But the person with the passion has to go first. Don't waste your energy getting someone else to do what you can do yourself.
right wing conspiracy!
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You put a moustache on me.
:lulz::mittens:
Yeah, what LMNO said. I'm not very reliable. It's one of my many flaws, that, and weak arms.
Quote from: LMNO on April 02, 2008, 04:41:21 PM
Protip: If you think something should be done, DO IT YOURSELF.
Most of use consider the text on this site is Kopyleft (I know TGRR's isn't, though).
I put together the first BIP pamphlet in Word, for fuck's sake. Syn took it and ran with it from there.
Grab what you like, cobble it together, and present it. Without a doubt, someone will add to it, make suggestions, host it on their webpage, whatever.
But the person with the passion has to go first. Don't waste your energy getting someone else to do what you can do yourself.
But why waste my energy doing what other people want to help out with?
I'd rather have other people helping out if they're motivated, because I'd like to put most of my energy into the typographic, layout and production dimensions.
If people don't step up to the plate in a week or so to start the editorial illustrations (and therefore start selecting content as well) I have a back up plan:
I'll do some myself and use some creative commons resources for the rest.
word. I have a feeling LMNO was addressing the people who are interested in the project but are waiting for direction. You've got your niche covered, Net. :p
fuck!!! :lulz: (not so subtle) hint taken
hehehe.
im starting. I'm gonna select pieces from crams list near the OP, (that I like) and go from there.
Quote from: Netaungrot on April 02, 2008, 09:51:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 02, 2008, 04:41:21 PM
Protip: If you think something should be done, DO IT YOURSELF.
Most of use consider the text on this site is Kopyleft (I know TGRR's isn't, though).
I put together the first BIP pamphlet in Word, for fuck's sake. Syn took it and ran with it from there.
Grab what you like, cobble it together, and present it. Without a doubt, someone will add to it, make suggestions, host it on their webpage, whatever.
But the person with the passion has to go first. Don't waste your energy getting someone else to do what you can do yourself.
But why waste my energy doing what other people want to help out with?
I'd rather have other people helping out if they're motivated, because I'd like to put most of my energy into the typographic, layout and production dimensions.
If people don't step up to the plate in a week or so to start the editorial illustrations (and therefore start selecting content as well) I have a back up plan:
I'll do some myself and use some creative commons resources for the rest.
yeah, Net I know what you mean about getting people that are motivated to contribute, and aside from the voices shouting "shut the fuck up and do something (anything really)" i reckon that if something is completed as a group endevour its all the more rewarding, not just acting to stoke some doods ego.
and as always getting people to syncronize their inputs and find their own niches is tricky. esp if it is discordians in question :)
but as i said above, hint taken.
[edit: after much procrastinating]
just a rough but started compiling: http://uploadr.net/file/d58488549e
Net would obv apply it to the layouts he's devised, im going to start doing some visuals to go with the individual pieces.
When I was in college I ran the campus literary zine. I had an editorial/selection board who were in charge of selecting what writings/art went into the magazine. Everyone would read each selection and then vote yes or no as to whether or not it should be included. So the pieces with the most yeas went in until we had filled up the available space. Perhaps some sort of similar system could be employed here for Lollercaust.
I still think if someone just started something, other people would kick in ideas.
If you make it easy to edit and amend, that would make it that much easier.
Alright, we've got our feet on the ground!
Barumunk, you are to be commended in taking a bold first step. I see your doc is labeled "Lollercaust 1.1", though I think if we want to be historical accurate, the version history looks like....
1.0 LMNO started to put something together
2.0 Cramulus compiled all the stuff he could find at the WOMP Vault. Later posted it here
3.0 Ratatosk started putting one together?
4.0 Barumunk Gold Edition :wink:
I like what you've selected. I think we need a good "mission statement" to pull all this stuff in together. We should have at least one long piece and one short piece which strongly underscore the main theme. And then we can do more or less what Rev WHN said - vote on which pieces meet those goals the best.
So what's the mission statement? (suggestions follow)
Simply put:
- an exploration of horrormirth
More elaborate:
- Learning to LoL at the edge of sanity
- Humor as a tool to stay sane in a crazy world
- The world is fucked up, let's have pie
MOAR elaborate
- Lollercaust is a booklet which can show the reader a useful attitude for modern living. We think that humor is a way of coping with the insanity of bureaucracy and the bureaucracy of insanity. We're the kind of people that laugh at trainwrecks, but this trainwreck is culture, and we are also the victims, staggering around and disoriented, bleeding from the head and cackling, howling, screaming at the moon.
Post Scriptum:
We should be organizing this at the wiki.
And editing the text. I think I might have a "clean" version of Cain's Apocrypha.
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 03, 2008, 03:00:33 PM
- The world is fucked up, let's have pie
,its a lie
:lulz:
whats a good way of organizing the nominations?
what about a post-poll to decide the "main" long piece, the one with the most votes is it.
i agree that choosing the "main"/central piece is a good first step. it will help dictate which others may become irrelevant. or moar relevant.
Quote from: LMNO on April 03, 2008, 03:03:03 PM
And editing the text. I think I might have a "clean" version of Cain's Apocrypha.
that would be helpful :)
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 03, 2008, 03:00:33 PM
Alright, we've got our feet on the ground!
3.0 Ratatosk started putting one together?
I was but my concept was flawed... I had planned to put in a bunch of myth/parable/etc like Cain's and some of the others posted... as a Red Letter Edition like the bible... but it needs done it B&W, so my collection was kinda lame. Then there were more dead grandmas (two in the past month) and I'm just getting back to full functioning.
I'm in and willing to do whatever would be helpful. My editing skills aren't great, but I used to be pretty decent at layout, I'd be happy to help collect/write whatever.
Right, so I suppose I should throw my hat in here.
version .5
http://uploadr.net/file/3739b976ef
and again in .odt
http://uploadr.net/file/6a1b0bcac7
Moved the order around, and added memebombs/limericks for the left page of one page stories.
This is all formatted in Open Office, I make no guarantees it will display properly in word.
If the work would be moved to the Wiki, the actual plaintext editing would become ridiculously easy, meaning I would compulsively start to do it.
On the wiki, we could also have votes in the talk pages, making the whole process take place in one place, more or less.
Quote from: st.verbatim on April 03, 2008, 11:36:28 PM
If the work would be moved to the Wiki, the actual plaintext editing would become ridiculously easy, meaning I would compulsively start to do it.
On the wiki, we could also have votes in the talk pages, making the whole process take place in one place, more or less.
I vote wewiki!
maybe this is a bit OT, but i dont understand LHXs story?
maybe i'm missing something here but in short: this woman tries (very hard and very obviously) to talk him into bed, he doesnt notice until the last moment (can happen) and he bails out just in time (cause he didnt want to be responsible for her cheating or something, i guess)
sounds like a good story, something i might tell my friends if it happened to me, but i don't see any horror, mirth, funny or even some general discordian undertone except for LHXs particular style of writing.
as i said, maybe i'm missing something.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure if it's Lollercaust material, in that I really don't see any funny in it.
HOWEVER, that said, I do think it has some BIP-links.
My interpretation is (please correct me if I'm wrong on this LHX) this is a woman he has a past with. My guess is it is a past that he has attempted to move on from. I can relate to that having a similar past in my, er past. I think it is an illustration of how one can still be prone to "falling back" while they are trying to advance on a new path. I mean, if I were to run into my ex-gf, go to her place, and make out with her, nevermind that I would be committing a great blasphemy upon my marriage, but she was damaged goods and from a really dark/negative time in my life. To delve back into that time, I think, would be a sort of "falling down" moment.
Anyway, that's my read of it.
"Tragedy is when I get a splinter in my finger. Comedy is when you fall into a sewer."
-Mel Brooks.
Quote from: SillyCybin on April 04, 2008, 04:07:16 PM
One man's darkest moment is another man's fit of the giggles :lulz:
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4931/roflbotzcnutp3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
hehehe
Quote from: LMNO on April 09, 2008, 01:41:04 PM
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4931/roflbotzcnutp3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
:mittens:
I LOVE it!
Arising idea:
art for Lollercaust (in addition to License Plate's art) could be a collage cut-up mixing positive and negative things.
Like a pic of a guy in riot gear kicking a protester in the face
with the sticker "New And Improved" pulled from some other product.
Two people kissing with the "AS SEEN ON TV" logo. (or maybe a guy with an injury of some sort?)
oooh maybe the As Seen On TV logo should go on a pic of a security camera.
And people say we don't laugh enough...
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 09, 2008, 03:07:18 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 09, 2008, 01:41:04 PM
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4931/roflbotzcnutp3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
:mittens:
I LOVE it!
Arising idea:
art for Lollercaust (in addition to License Plate's art) could be a collage cut-up mixing positive and negative things.
Like a pic of a guy in riot gear kicking a protester in the face
with the sticker "New And Improved" pulled from some other product.
Two people kissing with the "AS SEEN ON TV" logo. (or maybe a guy with an injury of some sort?)
oooh maybe the As Seen On TV logo should go on a pic of a security camera.
I fully endorse and support this train of thought. I think it is a recipe for major win.
A series of atrocities with the caption, "NOW LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO."
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 09, 2008, 03:11:48 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 09, 2008, 03:07:18 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 09, 2008, 01:41:04 PM
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4931/roflbotzcnutp3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
:mittens:
I LOVE it!
Arising idea:
art for Lollercaust (in addition to License Plate's art) could be a collage cut-up mixing positive and negative things.
Like a pic of a guy in riot gear kicking a protester in the face
with the sticker "New And Improved" pulled from some other product.
Two people kissing with the "AS SEEN ON TV" logo. (or maybe a guy with an injury of some sort?)
oooh maybe the As Seen On TV logo should go on a pic of a security camera.
I fully endorse and support this train of thought. I think it is a recipe for major win.
I second that :mittenz:
These are the correct motorcycles.
As Seen On TV should be plastered all over the place.
Should "vicious beatings" be added as an olympic event?
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6580/roflbot3cobbb7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Proably needs a better caption.
The German jury gives 8.5 points.
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4382/roflbottiajpy3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
:lol:
Quote from: LMNO on April 09, 2008, 05:52:35 PM
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4382/roflbottiajpy3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
:lulz:/ :x
Quote from: Payne on April 09, 2008, 06:11:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 09, 2008, 05:52:35 PM
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4382/roflbottiajpy3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
:lulz:/ :x
you should have like 5 sets of scores, as in figure skating and/or diving :D hahahah
6.3 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 10 | 6.4
Suggestion to continue to move Lollercaust forward.
Identify the pieces up for inclusion (which I'm assuming are all in this thread).
Copy them to the BIP wiki.
The wiki has that "talk" function which will allow us to vote on them.
Anyone who isn't signed up to use the wiki, and who wants to be part of the selection team, PMs myself, Cram, or LMNO and we sign you up.
We designate a period of time for voting, from when the pieces are transferred to the wiki.
If we have a layout scheme, then it becomes much easier as we can drag and drop them into that layout scheme. We can then add marginalia as needed.
Of course, this is going to entail we designate how large the pamhlet will be in pages, so we know where the cutoff point for pieces will be.
So there, that's my contribution. Whaddya think Spags????
(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/816/roflbotrvtvnp3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Works for me, I'll wander over to the Wiki
http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Lollercaust (http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Lollercaust)
Ok, quick stub in place, links to various content topics...
I'm starting on content topics once I get back from this 10:30 meeting...
Of course, feel free to start before I get back ;-)
Quote from: LMNO on April 10, 2008, 02:56:39 PM
(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/816/roflbotrvtvnp3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
hahahah yeah like so
http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Lollercaust_Essays
I have several copypastaed to the Wiki from earlier in the thread. I also modified the stub article http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Lollercaust
We should probably figure out criteria for these... like on Iron Chef:
Horror Mirth Rating - 1-5
Funnay Rating 1-5
Aha! Rating 1-5
*insert moar ideas here?*
Don't rank. Just do it.
Quote from: LMNO on April 10, 2008, 06:52:54 PM
Don't rank. Just do it.
Ranking for people discussing the entry... not for putting it in the Wiki.
I think simple yeas and nays would do. So, if you had 10 people voting on submissions then the highest score a submission could get would be 10. So all the 10s would have first priority, then the 9s, etc., etc.,
I think the simpler the process the better.
Several Long Entries are up.
Cain's Apocrypha
Enricos "Larry King interview"
Silly Cybins "The History of Cybin"
Cramulus' "Gorillas in the Midst"
Robot Revolution <--- Haven't figured which one of the Cramuli essays to put there
DISCORDIAN SOCIETY ACQUIRES LIMBO
Liber AL vel Lols
The Land of the Box Wearers
A Chaosmas Carol
Alternate Snubs
Modern Sisyphus
So, how long do we want this thing? Similar to BIP which I think was 30ish pages?
Also, if we haven't already, we should probably also compile any artwork that we want to go in the production.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 14, 2008, 01:49:09 PM
So, how long do we want this thing? Similar to BIP which I think was 30ish pages?
Also, if we haven't already, we should probably also compile any artwork that we want to go in the production.
im busy working on artwork for stuff Rat sent me,
but im kinda waiting till the content is finalized before steaming ahead
I have a parable that I started on Saturday. It's possible that I might finish it someday.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 14, 2008, 01:49:09 PM
So, how long do we want this thing? Similar to BIP which I think was 30ish pages?
Also, if we haven't already, we should probably also compile any artwork that we want to go in the production.
I got the impression that it was supposed to be a "quick pick-up-and-read" thing, but I probably wasn't paying proper attention. 30-page booklets are good, but not many people will be willing to read it if they don't know anything beforehand about Discordianism (though that does mean they won't have to unlearn anything).
Or are there already some quickie "primers" out there that I don't know about?
Well BIP was close to 30, so that's the template I'm going by.
also if it's lots of short pieces of text, people don't mind if it's got many pages or not, they'll leaf through it and just pick a few at random if they dont want to spend the effort.
i'sooth
http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Lollercaust
updated
next steps:
add moar stuff from this thread to the website.
add moar stuff from PD.com to the website
vote on pieces for inclusion/exclusion
stuff we still need:
more horrormirth art [see next post]
marginalia
:mittens: :mittens: :mittens: :mittens: :mittens:
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/b/bc/Lol_art_as_seen_on_TV.jpg)
So looking at that stuff (art, marginalia, and layout - at the link in my last post),
I'm wishy washy about a lot of it.
I think we should zero in on the horrormirth theme
which means excluding
-robots from the future :cry:
I also think that (as some people said earlier) we should use the nazi art sparingly, lest it be confused with the central idea.
I think LMNO's recent work (putting funny image macros on startling photos) hits the nail on the head more squarely than any of the other stuff so far.
On the text:
we should have some fiction, some essayish stuff, some zany, not everything needs to be 100% on topic
but most of all, I think we need a big central piece.
An introduction to this idea of horrormirth, which lists dozens of horrible modern and real things which will leave you laughing in horror at the end.
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/d/d7/Lol_art_new_improved.jpg)
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/9/9e/Lol_art_as_seen_on_TV_domestic.jpg)
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/2/2d/Lol_art_as_seen_on_TV_camera.jpg)
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/a/a0/Lol_kidslide.jpg)
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/6/65/Lol_art_bill_rights.jpg)
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/6/6e/Lol_art_caution_hidden_drive_soldier.jpg)
(http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/images/2/25/Lol_art_constituion_improved.jpg)
(http://www.woostercollective.com/ONENATION.jpg)
current banksy work on the same topic as crams post
[not too relavant but maybe a little] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559547&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559547&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490)
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 15, 2008, 12:49:32 AM
I think we should zero in on the horrormirth theme
which means excluding
-robots from the future :cry:
i disagree.
browsing through that wiki page you set up, again, the imagery struck me as overly negative. and i thought we were trying to avoid that, re:BIP.
horrormirth is a very interesting concept, but just like strong blue cheese and Kafka, it is best when consumed in small amounts.
for some reason, when i see a lot of horrormirth-type imagery at high velocity, mostly the horror stands out. i especially got that from the "we have ways of making you laugh" torture series.
so, actually, just to cheer things up a littlebit, but keep that gloom atmosphere, something obviously zany like robots from the future (even though it's got a dark hidden message in it), should be included.
QuoteI also think that (as some people said earlier) we should use the nazi art sparingly, lest it be confused with the central idea.
agreed. the one "we are not laughing with you" with Hitler, isn't very strong either.
QuoteI think LMNO's recent work (putting funny image macros on startling photos) hits the nail on the head more squarely than any of the other stuff so far.
i miss LMNOs one with "Hilarity ensues." on the image page. i'll see if i can find it, it was somewhere in Or Kill Me.
QuoteAn introduction to this idea of horrormirth, which lists dozens of horrible modern and real things which will leave you laughing in horror at the end.
well i think we got the horror bit covered fairly well. i just wonder if people will be laughing at the end.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/Marburger/hilarityensues.jpg)
thanks! added to the wiki page.
Khara found some AWESOME marginalia!
These are from Quote of the Day....
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2007, 04:23:08 PM
Well, I don't know about you, but in the event the entire internet dies, I'm quite likely too busy scavenging through the remains of the country for food, water, weapons and loyal minions to worry about you guys.
Quote from: saint aini on May 27, 2007, 01:15:16 PM
I'm always a bitch. How do you want me?
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on June 01, 2007, 03:25:29 PM
First you have to take it out to a nice dinner... share a bottle of wine... long walk on the beach... THEN you do pot.
They call pot a gateway drug because after a high maintenance relationship like that one, the simplicity of coke's quickie-in-the-bathroom becomes very appealing!
Quote from: saint aini on July 16, 2007, 11:21:57 PM
Your attempts are admirable.
Your work is epic fail.
Quote from: TEH CRAM
I was walking around in Boston the other week shouting into my phone (which was off) "Get the cat out of the microwave. GET THE FUCKING CAT OUT OF THE MICROWAVE. Of course it's meowing, it doesn't like being in a fucking microwave! TELL THE UPS MAN TO SHUT UP, UNPLUG THE MICROWAVE AND WAIT FOR ME TO GET HOME. JESUS." *click* I got some confused looks. I got some disgusted looks. I got some downright horrified looks. Did I accomplish some great Discordian goal? Yes: I got lots of lulz.
Quote from: Ten Ton Mantis on August 25, 2005, 11:31:01 PM
I pissed on my neighbor's car
They got really angry at me
I told them it used too much gas
Then I got arrested for disorderly conduct
So I set their house on fire
And shot them in the face
With a chicken cannon
Spraying chicken and people gibs everywhere
It was horrible
I feel bad now
But now I feel better
Because I wrote a poem
Quote from: Cain on October 16, 2007, 10:38:39 AM
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW, ABOUT YOUR WASHING MACHINE...MAY KILL YOUR CHILDREN!
DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
DO YOU HAVE A WASHING MACHINE?
WELL YOU BETTER TUNE IN AT 9PM, BECAUSE WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR WASHING MACHINE, COULD END UP KILLING YOUR CHILDREN!
And this is CNN and the time is 9pm. Don't put your kids in a washing machine. Now, onto the days news....
Quote from: Pope Naughty Nasturtiums on November 24, 2007, 05:53:26 AM
OH GOD I'M A TERRORIST.
I should blow myself up to prove that I'm not one.
That gesture certainly won't be misconstrued as an act of terror, ironically proving that I am in fact a terrorist!
OH GOD IRONY'S A TERRORIST. :x
FROM RICHTER:
MITTENS TO THEE, RICHTER!
These are from the :potd: thread
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2007, 05:56:38 PM
Kiddie pr0n isn't lateral thinking, and it only stimulates my mind to kick perverts until they stop moving.
Quote from: Lysergic on March 25, 2007, 02:55:20 PM
Zen is paying money to go to a seminar on Zen, only to realise you've wasted your money.
Those smiles the monks give you aren't because they like you, those smiles are people laughing at you deep down inside. Stupid roundeyes. They'll pay for anything.
Quote from: Cain on September 22, 2006, 02:25:41 AM
My body is like a temple. One of the wierd ones, where they do kinky things with animals in the basement.
Quote from: vexati0n on June 14, 2007, 07:50:52 PM
to piss of an inept client:
take their application as soon as they hand it to you and before asking them any questions, take out an oversized rubber stamp that says DENIED and hit their application with it two or three times. then, ask them what they do for a living.
Quote from: Mangrove on July 24, 2007, 08:20:55 PM
We don't just eat the menu....we fuck it too.
Quote from: Payne on August 09, 2007, 09:43:07 PM
Bob Marley.
He was too eager to take out "The Man" and shot both the Sheriff AND the Deputy, though he later lied about it.
Eric Clapton watched.
Quote from: GIGGLES on November 07, 2007, 09:06:31 AM
FACT: I WRECK VAGINAS!
WITH HERPIES!
O SRY, WUZ TAHT UR CERVOX?
GIGGLES,
ISN'T REALLY SRY.
Quote from: Richter on November 19, 2007, 05:06:56 PM
Mooselim? :lulz:
"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a Jihad out of m'hat!"
/
:hashishim:
Quote from: Payne on November 24, 2007, 05:43:46 AM
You're both terrists.
Git to Gitmo. NAOKPLZ.
Quote from: Cain on January 01, 2008, 12:35:30 PM
Did you know if you remember a music track essentially that is an electronic representation of the track that is being "read" inside of your brain? And you can do it with tracks you haven't even paid for! This is an outrage, what are the RIAA doing about people who remember tracks that they have not legally got permission to own?
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on February 20, 2008, 05:17:11 PM
I think our foreign policy would be vastly improved if suddenly all business was conducted in soprano.
Quote from: Cthulhu's Squidling on April 01, 2008, 06:37:07 AM
i like to poke at bloated roadkill with a stick till it tears a hole and all the maggots spill out.
wutsyer point?
I would POTD that, but fear the consequences. I'm so happy I have two quotes there :D
May I make a suggestion?
Perhaps we should consider making Horrormirth it's own volume, and focus on that right now, and save Lollercaust for stuff that's just funny and lighthearted? We do need a lighthearted volume, IMO, but frankly most of us have rather dark senses of humor at the moment and maybe we should run with that.
We'll probably end up with another two intermediate steps before we achieve true humor (the Fifth Pamphlet), but that sounds like a correct two-wheeled vehicle you're riding there, Nigel.
Quote"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
- Kurt Vonnegut
VOLUNTEERS:
Can we get someone to add all the marginalia (above) to the wiki? I'm looking at
you, reader!
Interesting idea, Nigel. I wonder if we have enough material to publish two volumes at the moment? It'd be a good experiment (and very productive) to make lists of
"If we're doing a horrormirth volume, these two long pieces and these three short pieces would be in it."
or
"If we're doing a funny haha volume, these six pieces would be in it."
this will let us see what we have, what we're missing, and what kind of themes we can support with the available text.
Does anyone want to try their hand at this?
that way we can see
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on February 18, 2008, 05:47:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 13, 2006, 01:04:39 PM
So here are some things I jotted down yesterday. This is basically me just writing down anything that came to mind and so it's pretty much raw data. Feel free to tinker it if you can make it suitable for publishing:
1)
If you thought the Principia was just a ha-ha, read it again.
If you think Discordianism is a good way to get chicks, go fuck yourself.
If you think The Good Reverend Roger is a sexy beast, you're probably right but don't forget your helmet.
If you think tatooing 23 on your arm is going to bring you good luck, you just got burned.
If you thought the Black Iron Prison was too harsh, then you're going to be just fine, no really.
If you thought I should've ended on the fifth one, consult yo mamma.
2)
If you hold perfectly still you can watch the praying mantra eat itself.
3)
It should be pointed out that the harder you try the sillier you will look and the less seriously you will be taken.
But, take things too seriously and you will feel quite silly when things get harder.
Also for marginalia. Each one is a separate thingy.
also, also for marginalia
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on February 18, 2008, 05:57:57 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 12, 2007, 07:37:37 PM
Did you hear the one about the deaf Discordian?
Whut?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 12, 2007, 09:23:03 PM
Pessimistic German: A Stitch in Time Saves Nein!
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on November 29, 2007, 06:20:18 PM
The sheep approached the Farmer with Shear Terror.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on August 09, 2006, 05:08:41 PM
I was talking to this clam one day.
Yeah, he decided he could open up to me.
I told him I was looking for pearls of wisdom.
He told me to fuck off and to go buy an encyclopedia.
This funny brought to you by the Stinky Pun division of HIMEOBS.
"Ruining the world, one lail at a time."
KHARA KICKS ASS FOR FINDING THESEQuote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2008, 04:09:43 AM
That's nice, EvT. While you were "raiding" I spent the better part of a year as a cop, causing massive headfuckery all over the fucking place, and investigating my own "church art" (oddly enough, no arrests).
Oh, and I got to drive at 115MPH everywhere I went.
Fuck messing with the Co$, I messed with AMERICA.
TGRR,
Knows there's no time to half-ass these things.
Quote from: Ten Ton Mantis on December 19, 2007, 06:47:51 AM
This thread is failballs skeeting failure on everything around it like some sort of AIDS sprinkler on a lawn full of anuses and vaginas with open sores or anime.
Quote from: Suu Fett on January 25, 2008, 06:13:55 PM
FUCK YOU!!! MY MOM WAS AN OUTSPOKEN, CANTANKEROUS ASSHOLE WHO COULDN'T MAKE NEW FRIENDS. SHE DIED OF INTERRUPTING CONVERSATIONS AND CHANGING THE TOPIC TO SOMETHING THAT CAUSED PEOPLE TO ARGUE!!!
Quote from: Nigel on April 09, 2008, 04:27:55 AM
Hairless cats look like vaginas turned inside-out, but with legs and eyes.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2008, 03:52:51 PM
Listen, shit for brains, people are ALWAYS an "opportunity for Roger". Everyone. Everywhere. Not just when they're all whiny and emo and full of excuses, but ALWAYS. Why? Because I hate you.
You haven't done anything in particular to deserve that hate, but I hate you anyway. I'm like Jesus, only bitter, vindictive, and hateful.
So understand this: I am not hating on you because you are an emo whiner, but because you are a fucking hairless ape. I do not wait until people are down to kick them, it just SEEMS that way because my boot looks bigger when you're lying on your back in the figurative gutter, whining about how rough life is, while doing things to ensure that it gets worse ("Hi, I'm broke! I'm gonna go out and buy alcohol!").
I got your "light-hearted", pal. Well, I HAD it, but I KILLED it. I killed it with the poisonous bile that dribbles out of my mouth, and the XDR syphilis that leaks from my very pores. Then I fucking buried it in the sandbox of the local schoolyard, just to teach the little bastards what's what, come next recess.
Or kill me.
Quote from: Cain on December 12, 2006, 02:19:55 PM
I SUPPORT THE WAR, JUST NOT THE TROOPS
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 13, 2006, 09:22:24 PM
"The Bucket is Going to Kick You!"
Quote from: Benaclypse on December 23, 2006, 02:48:54 AM
The mainstream is a sewer. Learn to swim.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 03, 2007, 05:02:57 AM
"Normal" is what gouges out your third eye and you fail.
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on January 22, 2007, 04:19:09 AM
All the horrible shit you're paranoid of is coming true.
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on January 22, 2007, 05:07:54 AM
Wroth like a zealot, believing in nothing and suspecting all. Annhilative, to the point of hyperbole. Passionate as napalm, yet contained and masterful like unto calligraphic strokes.
We are now approaching the Aftermath, and it will shake the mountains asunder. There will be terrifying and uncontrollable events that will pave all for the Next Cycle in Her terrible works in this world.
It will amaze us all.
Quote from: Mourning Star on February 25, 2007, 07:02:41 PM
"R. J. Reynolds wishes you a happy, healthy, new year."
"We care about your saftey as much as you care about our profit margin. -The Mgt"
"Suicide is against the law!"
"... is for your own good"
Quote from: Cain on March 09, 2007, 12:20:44 AM
Read less, live more.
Boredom is counterrevolutionary.
No replastering, the structure is rotten.
We want nothing of a world in which the certainty of not dying from hunger comes in exchange for the risk of dying from boredom.
Plebiscite: Whether we say yes or no, it makes chumps of us.
Don't negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.
The boss needs you, you don't need him.
Please leave the Communist Party as clean on leaving as you would like to find it on entering.
Be realistic, ask for the impossible.
They buy your happiness. Steal it.
Beneath the paving stones - the beach!
Neither God nor master!
Let's be cruel!
How can one think freely in the shadow of a chapel?
Live without dead time [time of boredom, time at work] - enjoy without chains.
It is forbidden to forbid.
Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can breathe and many say, "We will breathe later". And most of them don't die because they are already dead.
In a society that has abolished all adventures, the only adventure left is to abolish society.
The liberation of humanity will be total or it will not be.
The revolution is unbelievable because it's real.
I came. I saw. I believed. [Mimics Veni, vidi, vici.]
Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!
It's painful to suffer the bosses; it's even stupider to pick them.
A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.
Happiness is a new idea. [To be happy is a new notion.]
Culture is the inversion of life.
Poetry is in the street.
Art is dead, don't consume its corpse.
Alcohol kills. Take LSD.
Arise, you wretched of the University. [Mimics The Internationale.]
Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. [Paraphrases Bakunin.]
Workers of the world, have fun! [Mimics "Workers of the world, unite!"]
Power to the Imagination.
Be young - shut up!
I take part
you take part
he takes part
we take part
you all take part
they profit.
Quote from: davedim on March 14, 2007, 10:29:43 PM
If life gives you lemons, find a small child with open wounds.
Link to the wiki, pls?
http://www.blackironprison.com
Quote from: triple zero on April 21, 2008, 08:21:32 PM
http://www.blackironprison.com
Oh THAT wiki.
Thanks Mr. Zipple.
Happy 888.
Some time ago I posted a B&W version of this pic but I finally got around to finishing it.
I never found out where best to post my artistic contributions, apologies if this is out of place.
Unleash infinity.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/HAEMAVORE/OMGASM/UnleashInfinity_001.jpg)
Feel free to use it for any OMGASMic purposes with my full blessing.
:mittens: (that's for being awesome)
Quote from: 7RY57 on August 08, 2008, 03:16:23 AMHappy 888.
Some time ago I posted a B&W version of this pic but I finally got around to finishing it.
I never found out where best to post my artistic contributions, apologies if this is out of place.
they usually go in the "Bring & Brag" subforum, but for pictures as swote as this one, i frankly don't really care where you post em ;-)
QuoteUnleash infinity.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/HAEMAVORE/OMGASM/UnleashInfinity_001.jpg)
Feel free to use it for any OMGASMic purposes with my full blessing.
yup. sweeeeeeeet.