In college, I did all of the interesting classes for my major right away, and now that I'm at the tail end of my education, I find myself in all of the 100 level courses I skipped. Because of this (and without trying to sound cocky), I also find myself a big fish in a small pond, mostly because I've already taken the more advanced communication courses, argumentation courses, etc. (not because I think myself better and smarter than everyone else)
My final assignment for Intro to Human Communication is to give a speech, informative or persuasive, to my class. The topic can be anything our hearts desire. I decided to give myself a much needed challenge and give a speech on the most absurd topic I could think of. From my Facebook polling, the two most recommended nominations thus far are:
-The world is flat (argumentative)
-Reptilian lizard people have infiltrated the government (informative)
I decided to try to garner some ideas from the most fun, wacky people I know, my FK friends!
No suggestion is too outlandish, as you can see from my current two nominations. I'm not necessarily graded on content, more on form. Looking forward to see what you all come up with!
Absurdity in my Communications Course
Absurdity in my Communications Course
Technically, we're all half centaur.
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Man, I wish I had the creativity necessary to make that sort of work enjoyable. I actually didn't go back to school this semester (could have been my last year) because I made the same error and just really, really had issues with getting involved in the work presented in the lower level classes. I really need a challenge, otherwise I get bored and can't bring myself to do the work.
But anyway!
Did you know the moon is, in fact, made of cheese? The best cheese ever to have been made, really, which is why the government insists it's just a rock--they want all the best cheese for themselves.
Also, guide dogs for the blind don't actually guide us anywhere. They're just super cute pups we take along with us to grab the ladies' attention.
Finally, it's medically prooven that if you don't play FK, you're going to die an early but slow and painful death.
But anyway!
Did you know the moon is, in fact, made of cheese? The best cheese ever to have been made, really, which is why the government insists it's just a rock--they want all the best cheese for themselves.
Also, guide dogs for the blind don't actually guide us anywhere. They're just super cute pups we take along with us to grab the ladies' attention.
Finally, it's medically prooven that if you don't play FK, you're going to die an early but slow and painful death.
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
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I'm in the same class but we just started our term.
1) Persuasive: Humans are actually living plants because of scientific reasons involving such things as how our muscles are related to certain plant fibers that move on their own, we reproduce through male/female interactions, etc. Basically convincing the entire class they're a plant, not an animal.
2) Informative: Sleep actually causes you to die and a new version of you is born each morning when your brain reboots. Dreaming is just you experiencing death 'lag' and this is why you can't always remember your dreams in the morning and they fade quickly after waking. Thus sleep is a terrible killer that we must all avoid at all costs and insomniacs are actually psions of the future that we should worship. (Base it on the concepts presented by CGP Grey: The Trouble with Transporters)
1) Persuasive: Humans are actually living plants because of scientific reasons involving such things as how our muscles are related to certain plant fibers that move on their own, we reproduce through male/female interactions, etc. Basically convincing the entire class they're a plant, not an animal.
2) Informative: Sleep actually causes you to die and a new version of you is born each morning when your brain reboots. Dreaming is just you experiencing death 'lag' and this is why you can't always remember your dreams in the morning and they fade quickly after waking. Thus sleep is a terrible killer that we must all avoid at all costs and insomniacs are actually psions of the future that we should worship. (Base it on the concepts presented by CGP Grey: The Trouble with Transporters)
I'm a raptor, doin' what I can, gonna eat everything till he appearance of man. Yo yo see me, I'm living below the soil. I'll be back, but I'm comin' as oil.
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Heh. When I did my informative speech, I talked about the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes, I brought props. Of course this was back in the '80s...
Ka like the wind.
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How about: Why Donald Trump should be the next president of the USA?
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Because idiocracy needs to not be a documentary of our future!How about: Why Donald Trump should be the next president of the USA?
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Careful, they might get a wall build around their classroom.How about: Why Donald Trump should be the next president of the USA?
Weit in der Champagne im Mittsommergrün,
dort, wo zwischen Grabkreuzen Mohnblumen blühn,
da flüstern die Gräser und wiegen sich leicht
im Wind, der sanft über das Gräberfeld streicht.
dort, wo zwischen Grabkreuzen Mohnblumen blühn,
da flüstern die Gräser und wiegen sich leicht
im Wind, der sanft über das Gräberfeld streicht.
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"Donald Trump should be president because it's time for the human race to be wiped off the planet, and he is the best choice for starting global annihilation."
Ka like the wind.
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When I was in HS back in the late 70s to early 80s, I did my speech on the legalization of marijuana, including, of course, the monetary benefits to taxation of it. It took only 37 years to see that being put into place in the US.
Ka like the wind.
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ROFLLarethiel wrote:Careful, they might get a wall build around their classroom.How about: Why Donald Trump should be the next president of the USA?
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
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I was actually going to suggestMask wrote:How about: Why Donald Trump should be the next president of the USA?
Informative, Trump and hitler, Brothers across generations?
I don't know about the legitimacy of this statement. I just heard Trump say: I'll make this country great again, and it reminded me of one of Hitler's translated speeches.
I trained up double-edged bananas because the uber-plantain of doom I scored from the beehive quest was the best weapon in the game. Now it's being treated like a bug and they have gimped its damage! That's not fair! My character is ruined!
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...to be fair, isn't Trump of German heritage?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
Yes, yes he is.
HEIL NEW AGE FUHRER, DONALD TRUMP, DESTINED TO SET THE STATES ABLAZE AND CAUSE A NUCLEAR WAR THAT DESTROYS THE PLANET. Also he rides a tyrannosaurus rex in a world miles underneath the earth and is a lizardman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
Yes, yes he is.
HEIL NEW AGE FUHRER, DONALD TRUMP, DESTINED TO SET THE STATES ABLAZE AND CAUSE A NUCLEAR WAR THAT DESTROYS THE PLANET. Also he rides a tyrannosaurus rex in a world miles underneath the earth and is a lizardman.
Rycird walks up to the seemingly comatose woman, then reaches forward to poke Areia in the forehead, keeping his finger there and lightly pushing her head back and forth. 'See? Dead.'
If you disconnect, he will find you.
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My OCD eye twitch wouldn't go away till I mentioned that Hitler wasn't german.
Look it up
Point taken though
Look it up
Point taken though
I trained up double-edged bananas because the uber-plantain of doom I scored from the beehive quest was the best weapon in the game. Now it's being treated like a bug and they have gimped its damage! That's not fair! My character is ruined!
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Everything you do is wrong and you are going to burn in hell.
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Not sure if serious or...Vibius wrote:Everything you do is wrong and you are going to burn in hell.
Rycird walks up to the seemingly comatose woman, then reaches forward to poke Areia in the forehead, keeping his finger there and lightly pushing her head back and forth. 'See? Dead.'
If you disconnect, he will find you.
If you disconnect, he will find you.
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Isn't that half the fun of it?Rycird wrote:Not sure if serious or...Vibius wrote:Everything you do is wrong and you are going to burn in hell.
You'll shed your blood, your bodies fall. That is the price you'll pay to cleanse you of your sins. Vicious and cruel, let's kill them all.
Let's kill them all.
Let's kill them all.
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Probably.
Rycird walks up to the seemingly comatose woman, then reaches forward to poke Areia in the forehead, keeping his finger there and lightly pushing her head back and forth. 'See? Dead.'
If you disconnect, he will find you.
If you disconnect, he will find you.
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Yes.Zethanon wrote:Isn't that half the fun of it?Rycird wrote:Not sure if serious or...Vibius wrote:Everything you do is wrong and you are going to burn in hell.