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Tom Lehrer interview
Mar. 2nd, 2003 01:04 amAn interview with Tom Lehrer, funnily enough.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html
Mar. 2nd, 2003
Sea Monkeys!
Mar. 2nd, 2003 06:29 pmI needed this.
"In an attempt to induce an organized system of morality in the seamonkeys I received at our office Christmas party, I've decided to introduce them to religion. This was done by lowering a 2 inch, plastic Cat-in-the-Hat icon into their environment. It is hoped that the seamonkey's will, by being confronted with an overwhelmingly large and (to them) incomprehensible event (i.e. the introduction of the plastic icon into their jar), begin to formulate some sort of belief in the supernatural in order to explain the previously mentioned 'event'. In the second stage of this experiment, I have decided to use a straw to randomly remove a few seamonkeys from their jar and then (after a few minutes of vigorous shaking) return them to the jar. It is hoped that this experience will induce a significant proportion of the abducted seamonkeys to claim that they have 'special knowledge' of their environment (i.e. there's a big guy on the outside of our jar who enjoys torturing us) and then become the precursor's of a new priestly class by using this insight to scare the hell out of their peers."
William and Yelyena would be so proud!
"In an attempt to induce an organized system of morality in the seamonkeys I received at our office Christmas party, I've decided to introduce them to religion. This was done by lowering a 2 inch, plastic Cat-in-the-Hat icon into their environment. It is hoped that the seamonkey's will, by being confronted with an overwhelmingly large and (to them) incomprehensible event (i.e. the introduction of the plastic icon into their jar), begin to formulate some sort of belief in the supernatural in order to explain the previously mentioned 'event'. In the second stage of this experiment, I have decided to use a straw to randomly remove a few seamonkeys from their jar and then (after a few minutes of vigorous shaking) return them to the jar. It is hoped that this experience will induce a significant proportion of the abducted seamonkeys to claim that they have 'special knowledge' of their environment (i.e. there's a big guy on the outside of our jar who enjoys torturing us) and then become the precursor's of a new priestly class by using this insight to scare the hell out of their peers."
William and Yelyena would be so proud!