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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
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Subject: Re: a different(?) vein of Humor
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 12:51:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 12:51:49 1986
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> < munch! gobble! chomp! chew! Why don't "THEY" fix this bug? >
>  Someone mentioned 'crowd distractors' as a type of humor, these include the
> standard grinners;
> 
It used to be a tradition at MIT to yell comments during movies (as the MIT
population grows more and more conformist, this tradition has been dying).
This tradition is most evident at the Annual Science Fiction Marathon (where
most of the movies tend to be, shall we say, disposable?).

My favorite movie comment (which happened to be mine) occured during the movie
"The Fly".  The scientist is studying his diagrams for his matter transporter,
and his cat walks into the lab.  He gives it a saucer of milk, and turns back
to his diagrams.  Shortly, he looks back at the cat, pauses a moment, and then
picks it up and puts it into the in-box of the transporter (this is after he
has corrected the fault that inverted a plate through the Y axis...).  He
fires up the machine, hits the DOIT button (or whatever), and goes to check
the out-box.  With a grand dramatic flair, he opens the door, and:

	nothing.

At this point, the audience (shocked) is completely silent -- until I shouted,
in my very best "Martin the Martian" voice,

	"BEING DISINTEGRATED MAKES ME VERY ANGRY!"

The laughter lasted at least 5 minutes.

(To those who wish to flame me for "spoiling" the movie, may you be condemned
to watch "Just Imagine" without an MIT audience shouting DON'T SING! each time
they break into a 1930s style production number...)

--
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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