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Tue 26 Nov, 2002 01:10 pm
Craven's thread of Useless Inventions gave me the idea to start, in Able2Know, a School of Comparative Irrelevance, following Umberto Eco´s writings.
The school's subjects must be useless or irrelevant.
Several Departments are ready for new subjects:
Department of Oxymoronics: with subjects such as Phonetics of Silent Cinema, History of Innovative Traditions or Nomadic Urbanism.
Department of Impossibilics: with subjects such as Contemporary Sumerian Literature, Lunar Hydrology or Muslim Enology.
Department of Useless Science: with subjects such as Tetrapiloctomy (the art of cutting a hair in four) or Mechanical Avunculogratulation (the art of making machines to congratulate your aunt).
Department of Bizantinics: with subjects such as Angelical Microscopy or Informal Logic.
New subjects and Departments are needed.
How about a Department of Applied Superstition?
Modern Anglo-Saxon Literature
Building and Repairing Eight Track Players.
Gregg Shorthand for the Twenty First Century
This educational facility will be located right next to our museum of novelties right?
These threads remind me of the "Books that will never be written" ones.
Craven- I started that thread- it went on and on, and developed a life of its own. I loved it!
I remember, it was very fun (I believe there were 2 right?).
Craven- I believe so. The first one got too long for Abuzz to handle.
How about these courses:
Gourmet English Cuisine
Arts and Literature of Southern Antarctica
Training cats to fetch newspapers
Keeping your software bug free
Couture for Canines
Rug Hooking from Pantyhose
Making a Fortune in the Bull Market
Convert your Hoover to a full automatic rifle.
LOL and more LOL. Great responses.
Here's a subject for the newly created Department of Applied Superstition:
Oculotanatoscopy (the art of watching into dead people's eyes to foresee the future).
A few classic subjects:
Tautologic Dialectics
Arctic Agriculture
Tibetan Oceanography
The Impact of
Popular Mechanics in the Stone Age
Creative Whingeing
Remedial Romance 101
The Intra-Psychic Worlds of Behaviourism
Great moments in English Cricket
HO!!I remember some of those vividly!
Heroes Of The Austrian Navy.
England - The sunshine state
The Wit and Wisdom of the Bush Dynasty . . .
(Oooops, maybe that one belongs in a political thread . . . )
Bush - and how I beat about him: by anonymous
(is this to transmogrify into a books that will never be written thread?)
Rap Music Appreciation for the Over-60's
Erotic Amish Literature
Wine Appreciation for the Recovering Alcoholic
Barbed-wire Macrame Arts
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