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I in no way personally condone french ANYTHING unless it's fries, toast, or REVOLUTION!

and kissing.

And French maid costumes.

Great job putting this all together. Excellent selections and kudos for tracking down permissions and whatnot.

Personally, I think your layout and typography is quite hideous but I can see past that and enjoy the quality content.

You clearly put a lot of work into the parts of this that matter most.

Thanks for the first comment here on the issue after I was outed.  And by the way, do you know which version you saw? One of them got the format changed and I still have to fix it. If you have specific advice for me on things you think could be improved with the layout, I'd love to hear them here or in a private message. There's always room for improvement!

That is, in fact, a great idea, alongside a fully-developed accompanying essay about how it relates to parenting and what someone would do as a Discordian parent to counteract that kind of pervasive culture bias.

I ran into a teacher yesterday who had a great point about kids who just naturally start reading late getting unfairly pegged as "slow" and learning to hate school, I'm going to ask him to write something.

Also I might have to rethink my "everyone gets equal royalties" concept because I've gotten some one-paragraph submissions and it seems unfair to people who've put a lot of work into an article, to give people who dashed off two lines the same compensation. Or I might just not use the really short stuff unless it's mindblowing.

Typically even with a big-money making book, those who contribute a couple lines get paid nothing. A friend of mine who's a professional writer got an entry in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary changed between 10th and 11th edition. Payment? $0.00.

Nigel, feel free to use this, if you wish:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12215.0

I was unsure myself, but here's my conclusion, after months of thought.


By Discordians, For Discordians.


{page opposite last page is blank, with the caption, "What does Johnny See?" written in small type at the top.}

I like the open ending. Kids might want to draw a picture, and it could leave parents an opening for discussion with their kid. How you see the world is a matter of personal perspective.

I remember hearing about an IQ test for kids a few years ago. One question had a couple drawings of women. I don't remember the exact details, but one woman was heavy and without makeup, and the other had a slim but not skinny figure and makeup. The kid had to decide which one was prettier.

If your mother looked like the first woman, you'd likely pick her. That shows your IQ is lower.

Fortunately they changed the test.

I finally got around to reading and old Journal of Psychohistory I picked up at a yard sale, and I found this gem:

Spiegel (1974) Identifies a pattern of personality traits which he calls the Grade Five Syndrom.  These are people who are very highly hypnotizable.  He estimates their natural occurance in the population at just under 5%.  Others have suggested that the frequency is somewhat higher, between 5 and 10% of the population.

These individuals are described as exhibiting a posture of trust that can border on a pathological level of compliance with the wishes and beliefs of those in their environment.  They frequently demonstrate trance logic (Orne 1959), which is the capacity to act as if one is unaware of even extreme logical incongruities, and an ease in suspending normal levels of judgment.

Am I the only one who's thinking, "Where are these people? Maybe we could use them for something...."

But surely no fathers or First .. Gentlemen (?)

it seemed an accurate description of bush in many ways..

I know there was a book called "Bush's Brain," which was about Bush's long-time advisor Karl Rove. A lot of people think Bush was a puppet. But I suspect he'd have too much freedom of thought to fit in that five percent. He may not have been much of a political leader, but he did know sports.

This site has the scariest welcome I ever seen. I like it.

At PD we start out thinking all n00bs are retards in the hope it will eliminate their urge to actually prove they are.

Your mustache makes me suspicious.

You are not a confederate of that "Professor Cramulus" miscreant, are you?

Another Cramulus clone? I thought we got rid of all those.

Welcome. 

I have the impression you're looking for serious parenting info and resources, even if done from a humorous point of view--am I right? Things like discipline, encouraging your kids to keep an open mind (like Robert Anton Wilson said, be an agnostic in everything), real activities kids might like, etc.

In any case, I'll pass this along. I think it's a great idea! It sounds like it would be great for non-Discordians too, for any parents/legal guardians who don't have their ideas of parenting stuck in a reality tunnel.

I do have a question, though. I noticed that several of the fonts in headings were changed--it looks like it put everything in Courier, Times New Roman or Arial except for the fonts I saved as image files. I'm showing my ignorance here, but I thought once something was saved in pdf, it wouldn't change. Can anybody tell me how and why this happens? Thanks!

EDIT: Part of the same question, but where it changed the font in headings, it also changed the spacing between letters.

I'm not positive I have an answer, but here's what I think:

When you export the PDF, notice there's a Fonts tab? It could be that the fonts you chose are not actually embedded in the document. If you click Embed All and re-export it, there might be fonts?

Scribd gets a little bit weird with fonts (and transparency) sometimes. It's kind of erratic and I haven't figured it out yet.

No, I didn't try that, but will. Thanks!

I'll accept the mittens on behalf of the people who made some great contributions and helped me tremendously. This issue would literally be nothing without them!

Verthaine
Surrealists, Harlequinists, Absurdists and Zonked Artists Melee- has anyone else noticed that that spells Shazam!<Goddess I love Mal-2),and we are meant to write our own Holy Books.I sure did.

I can't believe I missed that. Leave it to Verthaine to see it.

There's some things I really wanted to use for issue 7, but I simply ran out of room (and time). Too much good stuff.

As there's some similarities in our issues' themes, some of what I found might fit your issue. I'll send you a message in the next few days with some links you might want to use. Or not.

If I forget, send me a message saying "Where the hell's the stuff?"

I loved helping but really I didn't do very much. But thanks for using my definitions!

Thank you for writing them!

And sometimes it's help on the little things that you need most, because those are the things you're most likely to miss.

Uploaded to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/17154992

Thanks a lot for doing that, that's great.

I do have a question, though. I noticed that several of the fonts in headings were changed--it looks like it put everything in Courier, Times New Roman or Arial except for the fonts I saved as image files. I'm showing my ignorance here, but I thought once something was saved in pdf, it wouldn't change. Can anybody tell me how and why this happens? Thanks!

EDIT: Part of the same question, but where it changed the font in headings, it also changed the spacing between letters.

Thanks for the mittens. Of course the vast majority of the credit goes to the contributors--I was very fortunate in being given some great stuff.