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The Art of BS [Thursday, January 22, 2015]
"Well, yesterday was pretty gross," Josh said, "judging by the nastiness on the ground as I walked to school today. It smells like low tide out there."
Which, ew.
"But it does give us an excellent classroom exercise today now that we're free again to not tell the absolute truth all the time." Josh sat in his desk chair and put his feet up on the desk. "Public speaking time, kids! You have ten minutes to put together your talking points, then regale the class with a five minute speech about your amazing heroics yesterday in the Rain of Eels. If you aren't speaking, your job is to come up with questions to see if you can trip them up from their stories. The art in bullshitting is to give enough embellishment to make things interesting without it being laughably implausible. But we're starting with eels that fell from the sky, so...the margin of error around here is pretty big."
He waved his hand over his head. "Okay, then. Wow me."
Which, ew.
"But it does give us an excellent classroom exercise today now that we're free again to not tell the absolute truth all the time." Josh sat in his desk chair and put his feet up on the desk. "Public speaking time, kids! You have ten minutes to put together your talking points, then regale the class with a five minute speech about your amazing heroics yesterday in the Rain of Eels. If you aren't speaking, your job is to come up with questions to see if you can trip them up from their stories. The art in bullshitting is to give enough embellishment to make things interesting without it being laughably implausible. But we're starting with eels that fell from the sky, so...the margin of error around here is pretty big."
He waved his hand over his head. "Okay, then. Wow me."
Re: Speech, speech!
Or, you know, played on their phones and tried to pretend they couldn't hear the shrieking through exterior walls.
"You'll be happy to know that the dorms were stocked well enough to hold out for at least a week, should the eels not have left by sundown. I won't waste your time listing all the supplies here. Suffice it to say that your school is well aware that not every student is equipped or interested in fighting the eel menace, and works to make sure that every student's needs are taken care of."