Revenant wrote on Oct 11
th, 2008 at 8:36pm:
I'm not sure I follow you Tallowood. Has a joke gone over my head, or are you being serious?
In the words of everyone's favourite polly "please explain."
It is just a theme from Illuminatus Trilogy.
It started with the quote "The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies."-Ishmael Reed
So one society was Illuminati opposed by Discordians.
Quote:The key Discordian practice known as "Operation Mindbugger" is exemplified in the character of Markoff Chaney (a play on the mathematical random process called Markov chain). He is an anti-social dwarf who engages in subtle practical joking in a deliberate attempt to cause social confusion. One such joke involves the forging and placing of signs that are signed by "The Mgt." (leading people to believe they are from "The Management" instead of "The Midget") that contain absurdities like "Slippery when wet. Maintain 50mph.
Another one was
Quote:the enigmatic Hagbard Celine, captain of a golden submarine. Hagbard represents the Discordians in their eternal battle against the Illuminati, the conspiratorial organization that secretly controls the world.
The book was written in 1960s decades before Foucault's Pendulum, The Da Vinci Code and Big Brother - The Big Picture.