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To: La Lydia

Students and faculty who want to make a stir try this periodically.

Back in the ‘80s, at Arizona State, they decided to upset the administration and local citizenry by airing the already antique porn movie “Deep Throat” (1972).

The agitators were rather upset that the administration just shrugged and said “whatever”. However, the student turnout was good. But that, as it turned out, annoyed them more than anything else.

That is, fundamentally, the movie Deep Throat is boring. Really boring. So after what one student described as an audience watching “a slow tennis match” for a while, the students lost interest and started to chat about other things.

Sports, news, the typical coffee house chatter, even moving around the folding chairs for the event to form groups, so that the movie became mere wallpaper in the background. This made the agitators so annoyed that they stopped the “film” and asked the audience to hush and watch the movie.

This got all the attention it deserved. Many students left before it was over, having more pressing business like doing the laundry or homework.

But, as they seldom do, the agitators didn’t learn their lesson. The following week, they decided to create another stir, this time showing how evil and racist America is by airing “Birth of a Nation.”

Oh, that didn’t work a lot worse. In that case, they neglected the fact that Birth of a Nation is a fundamentally *good* movie. It is entertaining and well acted.

This meant at the climax of the movie, when the Ku Klux Klan had chased down and captured the black rapist, then proceeded to string him up, the audience broke into a cheer and applauded.

This made the agitators so angry that they stopped the movie, and went in front of the audience to berate them for sympathizing with the lynch mob and being racist.

After a minute of this, all it took was one student, yelling “String up the Hippie!”, and the whole audience broke into laughter. This made the radicals so angry that they refused to show the rest of the movie and stomped out in a huff.


31 posted on 04/02/2009 7:52:13 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

“Birth of a Nation is a fundamentally *good* movie”, ummmm I’ll have to get back to you on that one.


32 posted on 04/02/2009 7:54:38 AM PDT by enraged
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

That’s the thing about pr0n: unless you’re easily excitable, the stuff can turn out to be quite boring, with stupid plots (when they even bother with those).


50 posted on 04/03/2009 8:08:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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