Apr 6, 2010

LeftClick: making online whoopee flatulence

Having fallen victim to LeftClick's occasional satiric indulgences I have moved it  to a Facebook page of its very own where it can hold jestering court. This, for want of a better nomenclature, is called "Sharing" as this side of socialism the most generosity you can look forward to is at the end of a online Share link. You are not being offered a new society with collectivised wants or  use values, nor even a few more 'good mornings' than before -- only the opportunity to partake of whatever satiric fancies may be on offer parked at that address.

And as pages on facebook go, you may even get yourself a community -- an environment. where intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs,  even risks..may all come together to  make online whoopee.

Mind you I don't really know how online Whoopie pans out....
' Our moto is: make hay while the sun shines, make wooppee while the moon shines .''

Then there's always  the possibility of online flatulence:
A whoopee cushion, also known as a poo-poo cushion and Razzberry Cushion, is a practical joke device that produces a noise resembling a raspberry or human flatulence.

To use it, one must first inflate it with air and then place it on a chair or squeeze it. If placed on a chair, an unsuspecting victim will sit on the whoopee cushion, forcing the air out of the opening, which causes the flap to vibrate and create the sound of flatulence.
The sound of flatulence?
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound off flatulence...
As the greaty German Marxist poet and playwright once wrote (before he was either great or a Marxist ) in Baal:"a fart has no nose." Brecht's philosophical offering has been a meditation of mine for decades....