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this kind of art reminds me of Ptolemy and epicycles and trying to get to some understanding through a roundabout way... the beauty and clarity of deep brevity is missing and non-understood.
formerly known as etaoin...
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If you were trying to say "it's a load of bollocks", then you got it right IMHO. I'm tempted to start a "Put the Art back into Art" campaign, I really am!
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Oh boy, oh boy...what a mean crowd tonight. That stupid Winner of the Turner Prize has got everybody stirred up.
Look around, everyone 's URLing space pictures and calling them "Art".
Oh well, at least some of the worst troublemakers have left the hall. Capital Kiwi has smashed his golden tablets and gone back to the mountain or vice versa. And thank heaven, TEd Remington has had his pun and has left for greener Zoroastures. And O'yes Faldage, dear Faldage, is somewhere over in fun n' games nitting, and picking, and grinin', over some innocent newcomers misuse of the word "forsooth".
And Ah, goodbuddy Fishonabike has peddled off to the not-yet-so-well-understood places where fish peddle. And, lastly but not leastly, Rhubarb Commando has left us, but in spirit only, he is passed out in a folding chair by the exit door.
And if I have left anybody out, good. And good riddance. The crowd you left would shame a motorcycle gang.
But Damn and Alack! I must complete Lesson 5 (of 6) of the series THE NATURE OF ART in order to receive my meager stipend. (God bless us all. I could have been a prison guard, or a talk show host. Please, I pray, let me survive the night.)
Milum: (tapping a water glass) Attention please. I have an announcement to make.
Mean Crowd: mutter mumble chatter roar!
Milum: (shouting) If you simple minded simpletons will just shut up you'll hear me say that this will be the last night of my lectures of this series.
Mean Crowd : (a pin dropped in the seventeenth row.)
Milum: But first, you must take a test.
Mean Crowd : mutter mumble chatter roar.
Milum : Your test results will determine whether you pass or require further instruction.
Mean crowd : (sullenly they shut up) _________!
***COMING TOMORROW---> MILUM'S TEST.***
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In reply to:
***COMING TOMORROW---> MILUM'S TEST.***
1. Where's our list of review questions?
2. Do we need calculators and slide rules?
3. Will points be taken off for spelling errors?
4. Can we use our notes?
5. Will it be a timed or a power test?
6. Are responses to be written or carved into granite?
7. Do we have to sign an honor code?
8. May we discuss our answers with classmates to get other points of view?
9. Do we get extra credit for creativity?
10. If so, please explain your take on creativity.
11. Is this just a test or an exam?
12. How much weight will this test/exam carry in our grade point average?
13. Will you provide us with a course instructor evaluation form so we may evaluate your teaching skills?
14. You're going to trust us, right? I mean, you won't be checking the undersides of our arms or anything like that to see whether we've hidden information, right? I mean, you don't believe we'd cheat or anything like that, right?
15. More on extra credit: We like extra credit. Do we get extra credit for reproducing the light bulb work of art? Or other such works of art? Like bringing in a can of Campbell's soup?
16. Do we have to adhere to your point of view that the poetry isn't art? Or the other arts you cast out the window? In other words, will we score just as high even if we disagree with you or would you prefer milumparrots?
17. What measures will you take to alleviate test-taking anxiety in your most anxious students? I like teachers who provide chocolate.
18. Can I sit next to tsuwm?
Thank you very much.
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19. Do you promise to shut up and go away if we pretend to take your stupid test?
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20. No. But I will pretend to go away.
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pretend to go away
Fair enough.
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And if we pretend to take the "milArt Exam" does that count toward a good grade, especially in the Surrealist mutiple-choice section where A. equals B. anyway?
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The object is to avoid the correct answer at all costs.
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the "milArt Exam"I have a CIA coffee cup from Mil-Art China ( http://www.milart.com/. Does that get me extra credit? I used to have a KGB cup, too, but I left it at Casowasco one weekend.
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