Subject: Dear SubGenius Terminology Expert

From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>
Date: Tue, May 27, 2003

What's the term for the OPPOSITE of time control? Not the foolish
clumsy spur of the moment term like "time ANTIcontrol" but the cool
WORKING one that encapsulates all possible meanings of the concept?
The one I can use to explain this sequence of non-events: I decided
there were about three things I needed to do around the house on a
regular basis so I made up and printed a calendar to tape to my wall
for this month, and I have been going by this calendar for a few days,
only today I find out that it ISN'T EVEN THIS MONTH YET. According to
everyone else I still have a week of LAST MONTH to live. Not only
that but something I was looking forward to doing which I thought was
pretty definitely in the next few weeks JUST HAPPENED YESTERDAY. Not
only was I supposed to attend, I was supposed to be working on setup
and takedown of the thing. Setup last FRIDAY and takedown YESTERDAY.
And I missed it entirely. So this is a case of living in the past and
future simultaneously, while remaining in the present and being pretty
much mistaken about all three. What's the term for that.

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From: "Rev. Jihad Frenzy" <cht@gis.net>

nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:

> What's the term for the OPPOSITE of time control?

Pink.

--
Rev. Jihad Frenzy

"I've got monkeys in my pants!"
Robert John Cusack

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From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@subgenius.com>

Hey stupid - are you too dumb to know there are 4 different simultaneous
24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth?

http://www.timecube.com

--
They are mean because they are rejects from society.

--Bill Palmer on SubGenii

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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>

WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM SO CONFUSED?

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From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)

Nenslo wrote:
>Not only
>that but something I was looking forward to doing which I thought was
>pretty definitely in the next few weeks JUST HAPPENED YESTERDAY. Not
>only was I supposed to attend, I was supposed to be working on setup
>and takedown of the thing. Setup last FRIDAY and takedown YESTERDAY.
>And I missed it entirely. So this is a case of living in the past and
>future simultaneously, while remaining in the present and being pretty
>much mistaken about all three. What's the term for that.

Chronological Gaposis. It's a common byproduct of Pinknocracy's Misinformation
Overload. Like Planned Obsolescence, MO is the Con's Brain Weapon, intended to
keep people looking the wrong way all the time. Confused? You won't be after
the Real X-Day finally arrives - it's been 'delayed' by Mass Chronological
Gaposis.

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From: "Dunter Powries" <fech.redcap@spedlins>

Sounds more like temporal transposition or temporal transliteration. It's
actually a very unpink phenomenon; well-adjusted pinks always know where
they are in time.

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From: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)

> I cannot avoid being a slave to my watch but I keep it in a drawer
>where I can't see it. But, like Poe's "The Beating Heart", I can hear
>the voices of all the clocks I've killed thru the ticking of the Timex
>which gets louder and louder until I can only silence it by getting
>more of its relatives replaced. Then I rebel against time and repeat
>the whole cycle again.

I haven't owned or worn a watch in years. If you must know the time, it's
always somewhere.

Plus, its a great way to develop the internal clock- which actually works. Even
in sleep. Actually it works better in sleep because the grand pubah is in
control
(after you've told it what you want) instead of the consciousness which
simultaneously suffers from attention deficit and stimuli overload.

Ever notice: the more corporate a job, the less clocks around; the more menial,
the more clocks.

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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)

> > Nenslo wrote:
> >
> > > So this is a case of living in the past and
> > >future simultaneously, while remaining in the present and being pretty
> > >much mistaken about all three. What's the term for that.

Adulthood. Stang and old sci-fi time travel Moebius loops came to
mind, but the stark truth is, its just adulthood. Or more correctly,
something in the general vicinity of INTELLIGENT adulthood, with a
side order of SubGenius "adulthood," defined by the fact that most
people barely know where they are RIGHT NOW and fuck any concept of a
timeline or actions/responsibilities/consequences thereon.

I, on the other hand, am fully cognizant of exactly when I went
insane in the past; how futile yet amusing it is to be typing it out
for strangers in near-real-time present; and pretty much the kind of
babble I will emit in the future, where the retirement home staff will
find me amusing, give me more pudding cups and will enact preventative
bed sore practices more conscientously for my benefit. "Hey, YOU 5
THERE!! Come help us turn Mr. HUEY!! He's our bud!!"

--

HellPope Huey @ hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Good LORD! (choke) Attack of the VULGAR, DECAYING,
SUBGENIUS Bike-Stand *ZOMBIE* BUTT, AIEEE!!

"We tackle the issues and then beat the crap out of them!"
- "The Daily Show"

"'Death To Smoochy' is 'Pootie Tang' for white folks."
- Nick DiPaolo

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From: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)

>and pretty much the kind of
>babble I will emit in the future, where the retirement home staff will
>find me amusing, give me more pudding cups and will enact preventative
>bed sore practices more conscientously for my benefit. "Hey, YOU 5
>THERE!! Come help us turn Mr. HUEY!! He's our bud!!"

Actually they only do this because bed sores are one of the serious no-nos that
licensing keeps track of and comes down hard on nursing homes for.

However, if you let them steal your money, you will also be their bud.

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From: IMBJR <imbjr@imbjr.com>

nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:
>What's the term for the OPPOSITE of time control? Not the foolish
>clumsy spur of the moment term like "time ANTIcontrol" but the cool
>WORKING one that encapsulates all possible meanings of the concept?
>The one I can use to explain this sequence of non-events: I decided
>there were about three things I needed to do around the house on a
>regular basis so I made up and printed a calendar to tape to my wall
>for this month, and I have been going by this calendar for a few days,
>only today I find out that it ISN'T EVEN THIS MONTH YET. According to
>everyone else I still have a week of LAST MONTH to live. Not only
>that but something I was looking forward to doing which I thought was
>pretty definitely in the next few weeks JUST HAPPENED YESTERDAY. Not
>only was I supposed to attend, I was supposed to be working on setup
>and takedown of the thing. Setup last FRIDAY and takedown YESTERDAY.
>And I missed it entirely. So this is a case of living in the past and
>future simultaneously, while remaining in the present and being pretty
>much mistaken about all three. What's the term for that.

Old age or maybe even death. Check your pulse.

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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>

A fugue state.

--
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