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THE SOCIAL POWER OF MIMERY

Climate Change Mimes Raise Unholy Ruckus In Longworth

by Sara K. Smith

10:58 am June 24, 2009

Did you know that you can help reduce carbon emissions simply by standing with your hand on a ketchup dispenser for two minutes? It’s true! New video footage proves it! Witness the stunning impact a squadron of brave mimes had yesterday on the denizens of the Longworth Cafeteria, who spent upwards of several seconds wondering why some dude was just STANDING by their table before returning to their very important conversation about baseball or whatever. Somewhere in heaven, Al Gore is smiling. [YouTube]

{ 35 comments }

Enturbulate June 24, 2009 at 11:05 am

Lick the frozen peoples. They taste like irony.

bitchincamaro June 24, 2009 at 11:06 am

I’ve had more of an impact on climate change by changing my underpants. For real.

Min June 24, 2009 at 11:08 am

I don’t get it. Is climate change going to turn us all into pillars of salt, like Lot’s wife?

Enturbulate June 24, 2009 at 11:08 am

[re=346242]bitchincamaro[/re]: This says something truly awful about the state of your underpants. And crotch.

heroinmule June 24, 2009 at 11:09 am

Good job Millenials! Problem solved! You’ll never be as annoying as the Boomers, but close enough!

ManchuCandidate June 24, 2009 at 11:11 am

Hate clowns and mimes. Something about guys wearing that much make up that freaks me out.

hobospacejunkie June 24, 2009 at 11:12 am

YOU SILENT MOTHERFUCKERS!!

Hopey dont play that game June 24, 2009 at 11:13 am

This beats the shit out of my 3 hour rock opera about climate change.

SayItWithWookies June 24, 2009 at 11:18 am

So they froze for warming. That makes about as much sense as anything else I’ll run into today.

InsidiousTuna June 24, 2009 at 11:18 am

[re=346256]Hopey dont play that game[/re]: Wasn’t that most recent album Green Day shat out a 3-hour rock opera about climate change?

nappyduggs June 24, 2009 at 11:19 am

I would have reduced my carbon footprint by planting each of my feet in one of their asses.

WadISay June 24, 2009 at 11:20 am

Somebody should just tell mimes to STFU.

freakishlystrong June 24, 2009 at 11:21 am

[re=346251]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Ugghh, me too, they terrify me. Squeaky, oversized shoes also.

norbizness June 24, 2009 at 11:21 am

Put them in one of those invisible imaginary boxes and then throw the imaginary box into a real river.

bored with gravity June 24, 2009 at 11:29 am

That video made my day – it was effing hilarious. Thanks, SKS.

Terry June 24, 2009 at 11:36 am

Couldn’t you just see the tremendous effect they had on everyone there in the cafeteria? Huzzah! Success!

x111e7thst June 24, 2009 at 11:36 am

[re=346251]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Coulrophobia. Which btw is another word Obama did not use in his press conference.

Extemporanus June 24, 2009 at 11:37 am

I’m organizing a “fleshmob” in the back of my van to protest grade school-issued restraining orders. Who’s with me?

I’ve got cannndddyyy!

Lascauxcaveman June 24, 2009 at 11:39 am

The cameraman cheated. He moved.

Cleopatra Schwartz June 24, 2009 at 11:39 am

Next week, the Flash Mob is going to Union Pool in Brooklyn, getting sloppy drunk for about six hours, then staggering outside and puking on the sidewalk to STOP THE GENOCIDE IN DARFUR!!!!

4tehlulz June 24, 2009 at 11:39 am

Flash mobs are the teabaggers of liberal fascism.

SayItWithWookies June 24, 2009 at 11:39 am

I froze in place in the congressional cafeteria. Now I know exactly how Dubya felt responding to 9/11.

nappyduggs June 24, 2009 at 11:43 am

[re=346314]SayItWithWookies[/re]: That made me engorged. Thank you.

Lascauxcaveman June 24, 2009 at 11:48 am

It’s fun to mock these guys, but I’ve always loved shit like this. Back when we were young rascals, my friends and I used to do the thing where three of us would enter an elevator, and not turn around, just face the back wall.

Ah yes, the 80′s. Fun times, messin’ with minds. I guess you could call us flash mobbin’ pioneers. We were so proud of our contrarian selves.

bitchincamaro June 24, 2009 at 11:58 am

[re=346312]Cleopatra Schwartz[/re]: Been meaning to go there; now I have a reason.

[re=346330]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: In the ’70s, we called that “performance art”.

slappypaddy June 24, 2009 at 12:00 pm

OMG, at first I thought it was art in a public place, possibly funded with public monies, and ignored by the public whose place it was in. Then I saw it was in fact a pointless, powerless, pious political protest making even less of an impact than would an artistic event, and I just felt all warm and fuzzy all over. Pass the ketchup, please!

earnestcivilservant June 24, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Beyond pointless, truly. Not just the action (or lack thereof), but the location. Longworth cafeteria? Why? And on farm lunch day, when someone might assume there would be localish produce involved? Again why? I mean really, WTF?

Min June 24, 2009 at 12:03 pm

[re=346330]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Same here, only it was the late 70′s. I was in college band, and a group of us would walk around whatever city we were visiting (in matching band jackets, no less), and one person would call out, “1, 2, 3, gawk!”, and, as a group, we would stop dead in our tracks, drop our jaws, and stare at a landmark.

It was simpler time, people.

norbizness June 24, 2009 at 12:28 pm

[re=346330]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Well, I used to order four foot-long sandwiches from Subway, give them $20, then yell FUCK YOU and bolt without taking the sandwiches. And that’s why the Berlin Wall collapsed.

Tommmcatt June 24, 2009 at 12:47 pm

And that, my friends, is the visual definition of “Libtarded”.

Lascauxcaveman June 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm

[re=346348]Min[/re]: Oooooh yeah! Band uniforms make inherently more funnier.

[re=346387]norbizness[/re]: You have expensive tastes, my friend. Or maybe you were just trying to lose weight? Either way, you have out-Jereded Jered.

Itsjustme June 24, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Mimes scare me almost as much as Midgets (Little People) and Clowns (Fucking Stupid People)

Itsjustme June 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm

[re=346251]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Eddie Izzard?

StoneAge June 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm

as someone who actually cares about climate change, this embarrasses me.

IceIceBaby June 24, 2009 at 4:52 pm

If people could fix global warming simply by being huge douchebags in public, the hipsters in Williamsburg would’ve accomplished that years ago.

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