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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Subject: Reverse Peristalsis Painting
- References: <1jl8joINN6r1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:18:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.081842.15938@reed.edu>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
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- As long as people are discussing shenanigans involving vomiting, I
- should describe the event of Reverse Peristalsis Painting, perpetrated
- by the guerrilla Theatre of the Absurd from Reed College a couple of
- years ago.
-
- For the past few years, Portland, OR has had a wonderful history of
- festive greetings for the Executive branch of the US government. It
- seemed that everytime the President or the Vice President came to
- Portland, there was a fairly major riot in response. Cops, rabble,
- clubs, firecrackers, arrests, the works. Our little way of greeting
- the Republicans.
-
- So when Dan Quayle came to Portland, some folks in the GTotA decided
- that it would be best to do something memorable, to commend the event.
- They formed the Reverse Peristalsis Painters.
-
- Donning polyester suits of the finest Salvation Army fashion, these
- brave men and women consumed gallon upon gallon of mashed potatoes.
- Then, forming a line in the middle of the sea of unwashed protestors,
- our heroes swallowed syrup of ipecac and proceeded to vomit, one by
- one, onto the street. Careful planning allowed for the mashed potatoes
- to be coloured red, white, and blue, thereby insuring that the display
- was patriotic.
-
- It confused the hell out of the media.
- __
- nelson@reed.edu \/ All of the freaks are not inside the tents
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