For centuries, people have spoken of them in whispers. They are the covert-action wing of the Kokonspiracy: a shadowy cabal devoted to committing anonymous acts — some simple, some spectacular — in the spirit of the Muse known as Mimi. They are the WD-40 that keeps the gears of civilization turning, or at any rate loosens the lug nuts of civilization when they get stuck. Who reshelved that beautiful astronomy book that some idiot had stuck in the middle of the football section, where neither the librarians nor anybody else would ever have found it? They did that, and much, much more besides. Make no mistake about it: Unlike a similarly named supersecret organization depicted in certain popular books, movies, and video games, these are GOOD guys.
They are
The IlluMimiNati.
And they want you.
No membership fee if you sign up now!
Count me in !
I’m in! My best friend is a ninja too, but I threw a pillow at her, or something, so she stopped training me. Can you finish?
me too!!!!! WOOP!!!
*a voice appears from the shadows* I am in.
I shall most certainly join.
Wait, I have to be good? Snap!
WOOP?
Secretly good. Good in secret.
Me three! This sounds interesting (and maybe we can fix my library, while we’re at it
)
Err, what? I have absolutely no idea what’s going on.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
Ho esperi.
I forgot. This is Museblog. I just realised the absolute double-insanity of that statement (Wait, doesn’t that make it sane?).
Screw it. I’m in!
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
I was about to say: “Is that so unusual?”
Yep. Not really. Glad I caught myself there. I was almost – le gasp – sane…
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
me three! I’ve ALWAYS wanted to be a ninja!!! W00T!
I shall join! I took karate for a little while in 5th grade, but I believe I need some more training. Anyone got a sword?
And I’m most certainly not extremely sneaky. And I most certainly can’t nearly turn invisible, what on earth gave you that idea?
I’d like to be a ninja. Sounds okay.
*bows* I have recieved your message. I will join.
My first mission?
No. No way am I doing THAT-
Fine. You got me.
*leaves the base for mission*
(10, 9, 8, 2) I’m afraid the title of this thread is slightly misleading. The IlluMimiNati aren’t exactly ninjas. In fact, they differ from historical Japanese ninjas in several respects:
What are you trying to hide, Robert? Sounds suspiciously like you’re trying to convince… someone… that the IlluMimiNati aren’t real. Which, of course, means that they are.
haha I’m Japanese! Really! Well, my mom is, but my dad’s American………haha! (random?) Once one of my friends asked me if I was a ninja, and I said no, and he’s like, “But that’s what a ninja would say, try to deny it!” haha! I’m extremely sneaky, quiet, and I listen in on other’s conversations, esp. adults!
Oh, okay. Well, I’m still in.
(12.1) Rubbish, bosh, tosh, and piffle. Anyway, I certainly don’t know anything about who they are, or aren’t, and I’m sure the other Administrators here are exactly the same.
Wait a minute… I didn’t inadvertently inspire a nonexistent organization with my views on the Kokonspiracy, did I? “I’m not saying MBers are better than non-MBers. I’m not saying we’re smarter. I’m not saying we’re more creative. I don’t care about what’s currently “mainstream†or not “mainstreamâ€. The only beef I have is with society, specifically the media’s, mindset. Basically sex, drugs, and violence, and I don’t think that’s a recipe for a healthy world. If we can make people just think instead of follow everyone else who’s following followers, then people can actually be themselves. Not the reject society, be crazy kind of “be themselvesâ€. The true “be themselvesâ€. Doing what they think is right, what they truly enjoy, and not just basing their opinions on what the latest issue of Seventeen or whatever it is these kids are reading these days. Because if people start thinking, then people will actually start doing things to help other people. In my opinion, that’s what being a Muser is all about. It’s not about the so-called geekiness, the obsession with Muse, the inside jokes, the sense of humour. It’s about the kindness, the helpfulness, the simple respect and tolerance without sacrificing personal expression that makes someone a Muser, at least in my opinion. Call me old-fashioned. Say I’m taking things too seriously. Call me arrogant. Ignore me. I don’t care. I’m going to do what I think is right, and if anyone feels like doing the same, by all means, be my guest. If you rather enjoy making this new world order, go ahead. I’ll not stop you. I just believe that people have the power to make a difference in the world through making small differences in their neighbors’ lives. Perhaps I’m just a romantic, but I truly and completely believe that each person, no matter how young or apparently insignificant, can make a difference in the world.” No, that’s impossible. I must just be hyped up on caffeine. And I stayed up too late again.
13-
I’m going to have to start using those words, especially in conjunction with one another. I think making them rhyme could make them even more fun, although a tad cheesier. “Rubbish, bosh, piffle, and tosh.”
Rubbish, bosh, tosh, and piffle
Shuffle the rhythm, squash the rhyme
Rubbish, tosh, piffle, and bosh
By gosh, it’s nonsense every time.
Oh, I love it! Haha! Beautiful!
(14) Yes, we studiously avoid cheesiness around here.
True, all appearances to the contrary are merely to throw off the scent. (Not always an easy task, as some forms of cheesiness are smellier than others.)
I think my first mission is to convince my parents to let their cute, sweet little daughter take karate next year. I’ve always wanted too, but I wound up in dance class. Of course, the IlluMimiNati never existed and never will, but if it did, it would be happy to train & to teach others the little that I know.
We’re ninjas, but can we have a zen-but-more-violent-though-very-helpful sort of code/philosophy? Besides secret helpful deeds, I mean. I could help with that.Of course, I’m not posting here, since this thread doesn’t exist, since the IlluMimiNati don’t exist, but if I would be, I would say that we should dump the “pretend this isn’t real” facade, or at least announce it before a post. We could, hypothetically speaking, invent a code so that the first sentence can’t be seen in the recent comments bar. If this organization would exist, I would suggest we develop code phrases and greetings, as it would be top-secret.
I take ballet at the moment, but am considering quitting, and my dad is all-for letting me take martial arts! Which, I can’t wait to start! And, my dad will be taking with me if I can find weekend, preferably Saturday, lessons! Huzzah! So I will soon be learning martial arts, and will be (?) also happy to teach others what I learn! (ok, do I make any sense at all?)
I was already a member.
(16) bookgirl: Without taking a stand one way or the other about their existence, I think it’s safe to say that any such organization would be more interested in action than in hugger-mugger formalities.
(17) Jadestone: Oh, clever: double bluff. Would you care to report on some of your non-missions?
18- A double bluff? Wait… what? This has quickly surpassed my ability to understand. But I suppose it’s all hypothetical anyway, so I shouldn’t worry.
As long as I can still wear my NORMAL black clothes instead of creepy tight ones with no airholes and probably very man-unfriendly pants I’m in.
How did you guys know about that astronomy book? (HOW do you get running around screaming with a ball to studying the heavans? Stupid librarians.)
My goodness, I’m quite confused. Hmm…for awhile I wanted to be a spy in the worst way. At the height of my espionage it found me sitting in a tree watching the neighbor mow their lawn and being so bored that I couldn’t wait for him to go back into the garage so I could get out of the tree while escaping detection. Good times those…….I don’t think they did see me though, but who cares if they did, they’ve come trespassing around here enough. *rambles of into rant about obnoxious neighbors*
Where was I? Oh. Ninjas, *ahem* sneaky people. And being confused. I think this whole thread is rather confused actually, just some people are more intelligently confused than others.
In any case, count me out; I’ll join immediately.
Hypothetically speaking, the IlluMimiNati exist. But really? Do they? What evidence is there?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Or is it?
20~ By all means, don’t wear creepy tight man-unfriendly pants. Go for the mini skirt and spaghetti straps and you’ll look beautiful.
*dodges pie*
The problem is, mini skirts are still pretty man-unfriendly. And I’d have to shave my legs. *hurls heat-finding pie missile*
Can anything be proven? In my opinion, no. The man who controls the universe in HG2G is a good example. Everything, no matter how apparently definite, is really just based on hearsay, whether from another person or from one’s own faulty senses. I could very well not exist right now; I have no way of knowing. It is impossible to prove or disprove the IlluMimiNati because it is impossible to prove or disprove MuseBlog, Musers, or the universe itself.
Let’s just declare, provisionally, that they do exist, and get on with the sneakiness, shall we?
And even if they don’t exist yet (just saying, they might not) who’s to say they won’t exist ever? And what with black holes and bends in the space-time continuum, they might be among us as I type this comment.
Ahem. So what would this (possibly) hypothetically non-existing organization maybe be doing?
In other words, I’d like to join.
I have some ideas about the nature of illumimination. I’ll be offline all afternoon (watching Star Trek in IMAX!), but I’ll have more to say tonight.
I heard Star Trek in IMAX was awesome!
Harry Potter should be good too.
I saw The Order of the Phoenix in IMAX. It was great. I could even read the cereal boxes on the breakfast tables at Hogwarts (Cheeri-Owls).
So if you want a crappy movie to be “great”, watch in IMAX?
I despised OOTP……
The Cheeri-Owls were great, and so was the IMAX technology that enabled me to see them.
But this isn’t the movie thread. Back to the Illumiminati!
Star Trek was great. (I saw it in a normal theater though, not IMAX).
I couldn’t help but dissect it: all the special effects, the ending, etc. I probably bugged my dad to no end.
Intriguing… what do you do here?
I have no idea what’s going on… but count me in.
So what does this non-organisation do? If it does anything interesting, count me out, I’m going in!
I am:
A. Definitely not posting here. Anything you may thing you are reading is most certainly an extremely detailed hallucination.
B. Very much not a superninja.
C. Unaware of two other ninjas, one who is my cousin and the other who doesn’t believe in my imaginary friend named Bob, neither of who would jump at the chance to do ninja things.
D. Not bored enough that I wanted to put a “D”.
If this thread existed, this is what I would post:
I thought of the code as necessary for action, since secret organizations can’t go around randomly beating up or helping people. They all have fancy little complicated rules, such as only fight people who are over 4ft tall, avoid heroic last stands ’cause you end up in pieces afterwards and don’t eat hot-pink food (if it exists).
I’m in! *strikes ninja pose*
I’ll join!!!!
Just to find out what this is about….
I’m in! I’ve got extremely keen hearing! Because my ears stick out. It’s a hereditary thing from my grandmother’s side of the family. She’s got a picture of her uncles and her dad, and I’m like, OMIGOSH! THEIR EARS ARE EXACTLY LIKE MINE! Oops, off topic! Sorry! And I’m good at sneaking around, and I might start taking lessons in martial arts soon!
I’m in. I’m an online stalker.
So, basically, this is for training stalkers? Okay… fireandhemlock, you probably know what I’m thinking about here.
Well, more like stalkers on the lookout to perform bold, ingenious deeds of guerrilla altruism.
let’s get Mary Liz on here, quick! lol yeah, Kigs, I know what you’re probably thinkin’! haha!
Yeah…
except isn’t she Mary W.?
Sorry, MBers, none of you know what I’m talking about, so I’ll explain. There’s this girl on the Chatterbox who I keep inadvertently accusing of being a stalker, an ‘excellent villian’ (on a RRR), and most recently, a plaigarist. We’ve bonded over my paranoia.
Whut?! You seriously didn’t know this little tidbit? Mary W posts as Mary W, yes, but she prefers to be called Mary Liz! I thought at least you would know that!
Oh… no, I didn’t know that, When did she say that?
ha! I’m going to see Angels and Demons tonight…illumiminati indeed
Hmm. I wonder if this will affect your viewing experience.
I’m hoping to go this weekend, when my sister is back from school, and then we’ll all four go as a family…..
I’m in. I usually return shopping carts at grocery stores to their proper corals, but sometimes people spot me!
I just have to take this moment to say, “Bravo, JW!” It drives me batty when people leave carts any old place. Especially a few feet away from the corral. Someone caught me once returning a cart at Costco and said, “You aren’t supposed to do that! That would be too…nice.”
Oh. My. Gosh.
Finally I find out that I’m not the only OCD person in the universe who does this!!!!
Ever since I was, like, 5, that has driven me SO crazy!!
Doesn’t it, though, when people leave carts on inclines and in parking spaces and if they do put it in the corral they’re all jumbled up and aren’t nested and- *starts hyperventilating*
Anyway. Am I the only one who sees someone drop a penny/nickel/dime/quarter and they don’t hear it and it’s SO LOUD they couldn’t possibly not hear it and it makes me wonder why people don’t pay attention to loose change.
OH, yes. That is SO obnoxious. But I usually end up picking it up anyway. Most of the time I’m broke.
Yayness! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Musers would be at the forefront of the Grocery-Cart Retrieval Brigade. Well done, comrades.
And you’re not the only OCD person, period. Yours truly has it too.
“that would be too…nice”? What the heck??????????? I mean, i can’t say I’m guilty of returning other people’s carts, but I do return my own. I’m usually too busy/lazy/whatever to return the ones other people have left…..
Lots of people want to be IlluMimiNati. However, they have not realized what is involved…
Anyway, what does being a
NinjaSneaky Person involve, exactly? Just, making the world a better place, one grocery cart at a time? Or is there *gasp* More?There’s more… much more…. *ominous music*
24.1~ Oh do you have to be so picky? Shaving one’s legs isn’t so bad….it’s a good excuse to take long showers, mwahahaha.
Ugh, the people at the grocery stores here just ride the shopping carts around the parking lot and crash into each other. I realize that jousting is the Maryland state sport, but something tells me that’s not the reason they’re doing it…grr.
18- Oh, you know I haven’t done anything, anything at all. I mean, graffiti is illegal even when it is kokopelli on… things. Even nonpermanent. I wouldn’t be part of secret societies, not my thing at all, everyone knows that.
Activities I have (not) so far already planned before this even existed:
– sneaking to someone’s house in the dark of the night and washing their car
– sneaking to somewhere in the dark of the night and planting flowers
– Sneaking up to people’s doorways in the daytime, ringing the doorbell, and running away leaving a plate of cookies on their doorstep
Have yet to complete these, but don’t worry.
Although many oppose us, we will prevail.
Our creed must be spread.
We cannot stop.
44- Okay, I’m sometimes a pessimist, so I instantly began to think of ways those could fail. I don’t know why, but that’s the first thing that entered my mind.
1. Someone could have been unexpected and written their marriage proposal on the hood of the car in that car paint stuff and waited outside in the morning until their would-be fiance came outside.
2. Someone could be horrifically allergic to the certain type of flower.
3. The person could be away from home, the cookies attract ants and bugs which decide to build a home inside the house because it seems to be full of food. When the person returns, their house would be infested with insects.
Again, I don’t know why I thought of that. Bad Piggy! *slaps self*
PeopleSome people- You’re focusing too much on the “ninja” part of this and on the “secret” part as well. Look at the key word in the organization’s name: Mimi. The Muse of getting along with people, which also entails small, helpful acts without thought of reward. If one does something in the open, there is always a chance of reward, and this is always in one’s mind. But if one does it covertly, one cannot be rewarded, and thus is not being driven by one’s own desires. That’s the only reason we must do these things without others’ knowledge. Whether or not the GAPAs had it in mind, I think they mean something along the lines of the “speech” I gave and quoted in post 14 on this thread.I’m in!
Yes, I’d say Mimi is the key. Most of the blog, and the Kokonspiracy, focuses on answering the question “What would Kokopelli do?” Usually that means delivering justice (in the form of pies) to people who deserve it. Mimi, however, isn’t concerned with justice. Her way of doing things — illumimination, if you will — isn’t as much fun as Koko’s, but it’s still a Muserly way. I think the IlluMimiNati could help balance the Kokopellicentric emphasis of the rest of our enterprise.
(That is, assuming we believe in the IlluMimiNati.)
I don’t know that I’d say it’s less fun. Different, yes, certainly less slapsticky (less sticky, period, in fact), but fun in its own way.
I believe in the IlluMimiNati. At least, I think I do…
But sometimes you need a bit of justice/violence. For IlluMimiNati deeds, I once randomly cleaned up and sorted through all the stuff at our chess club, but there you also need a good sense of when to duck. And since it’s 90% boys, there’s a lot of rough play after arguments (though I must admit that I haven’t exactly represented nonviolence either). In my opinion, it’s better to stop someone from throwing chess figures at their opponent in the first place then to go crawling ’round on the floor looking for them, which would be a scary experience even for a person who’s visited the sewers. *shudders* But I guess that’s a Kokopelli sort of thing.
As for the sneaking out at night part: make sure you don’t get caught. It’s sort of hard to explain what you’re doing at the neighbors car at 1 a.m., especially if you happen to have one of those pointy frost-scrapers that are useful for lots of other things as well…
May I join? Please! I sometimes… um… *searches memory for good and sneaky deed done sometime in the recent past* … um… I organized a lot of our school library books, and make no mistake, they needed reorganization. The technique used to be not to search for Dewey Decimal number or author but to scan shelves at random until the desired book was spotted, if at all. Now at least they’re vaguely in order. Oh, and I replaced a lot of cans of tomato sauce that had somehow found their way into the frozen foods section. And yes, I’m sure they weren’t supposed to be there.
May I join? Please! I sometimes… um… *searches memory for good and sneaky deed done sometime in the recent past* … um… I organized a lot of our school library books, and make no mistake, they needed reorganization. The technique used to be not to search for Dewey Decimal number or author but to scan shelves at random until the desired book was spotted, if at all. Now at least they’re vaguely in order. Oh, and I replaced a lot of cans of tomato sauce that had somehow found their way into the frozen foods section. And yes, I’m sure they weren’t supposed to be there. They were getting close to exploding under pressure. And they were squashing the frozen paus.
I have already had training.
Good. I am a very sneaky person with excellent hearing that I use to eavesdrop on people’s conversations.
Okay, what do we do???
Anything you like, as long as it’s in the Mimiful spirit. Then report back here and
brag about ittell us how it went.Cool!!!!!!!!
Here’s one successful mission–
My friend A and T (both girls) dated for a long time. They had a very bad breakup. At lunch, A sits at my table and T used too but after they broke up sits with some other people. But she till comes to talk to us–except for a few weeks she would come over only to talk about her new gf and how wonderful she is right in front of A to hurt her.
It was awkward for all of the people at my table because we’re friends with both of them, but I could tell it really bothered A and a few items I could see she was close to crying when T did this, so when T left I’d give her a piece of chocolate (like those individual Dove ones). She seemed really surprised that I’d noticed/cared, and I did this several more times.
After a few weeks I got a note from her–her creative writing class as doing a unit on thank-you notes and she addressed hers to me saying how it really helped her get through the rough days/times.
It really made me feel good.
Aww. *sniffles* *finds kleenex box* It’s amazing what small gestures can mean. And I’m glad she gave you some additional good feelings back, since I know you’ve had tough times yourself lately. Well done, IlluMimiNaut. Um, or that’s what I would say, if there were such a thing. [Note to Classics scholars: I realize that IlluMimiNaut is a Latin/Greek hybrid. But it doesn’t really make sense anyway. AND, furthermore, it doesn’t exist.]
Aww.
Related to Jadestone’s cookie idea:
Maybe we could run up to people’s houses, ring the doorbell, and run, leaving a plate of Koko-shaped cookies and a slip of paper with the MuseBlog URL address. That way, we could be nice and let people know about MB.
Where would you get a Koko-shaped cookie cutter?
*wanders off to basement to hunt for strips of aluminum and a pair of needle-nose pliers*
That is an excellent idea. It might be hard to get it to cook evenly with the hair-spikes verses the rest, but It has the possibility of looking fantastic.
Good point. Also, his hair and / or limbs might break off. I suppose you could just use regular cookies, although it wouldn’t be as Muserly.
Alternatively, you could use icing on a regular cookie. Or make something like millefiori canes and do a slice-and-bake. Or use the kind of hard frosting decorator’s use as an adhesive and glue on some licorice strings or something.
Millefiori? Isn’t that those glass beads with the random patterns? *is obsessed with beading*
Beading is awesome!
There’s one on Kokopelli dot com.
I used to have this friend, and whenever she got picked on she would be too scared to tell an adult. So she would come to me, and I would act as a sort of peer counsilor. I would tell her how to stop the bullies (I once even had her use reverse psychology) and she would always tell me if it worked or not. Whenever I couldn’t help her, I would make her tell whatever staff member was nearby.
I used to be bullied, but I just pointed out that they weren’t benefiting and I didn’t particularly care, and they left me alone.
58- Good for you.
There was this mega-bully at my elementary school, and I was the only kid she couldn’t get to. I’m serious. Half the school was “friends” with her to be safe from her verbal abuse. She even bullied the teachers, PTA parents, and principal! The funny thing is, she was the shortest girl in school. When she was in 5th grade she was 2 feet tall.
Two feet tall?! Please, Randomosity 101, tell me you’re exaggerating.
Hey, I used to know a kid like that. In fact, in my 5th grade class, he fit exactly that description. The verbal abuse, the two feet tall thing… maybe she’s his cousin?
Today we went grocery shopping, and there were no less than FOUR carts strewn haphazardly around the parking lot. I put one back, but then my mom said that someone at the store had the job of doing that, and they would lose their job if I did it for them. So I did the alternative mission of going to the greeting card aisle and putting all the misplaced cards back in their proper holders.
Would Mission Cookie really work? I can’t really imagine anyone going to a random website they found on a scrap of paper and don’t know anything about. It could be a virus-spreading site or something. Then again, maybe the people who go to the website to see what it is are the people with Muser potential. And they might want to see who the nice people that baked them cookies are. Although paranoid people might suspect the cookies of being poisoned.
Question: Why are the Illuminati the bad guys? They just didn’t like the Christian church.
So now you have me wondering, what would Mimi do? Leave a few more shopping carts strewn around to save more jobs? Or would that do more harm than good?
61- Well, Mimi’s always been a bit wishy-washy, so she’d probably be wondering as well. As for what, hypothetically, an IlluMimiNati member would do, I’d return the carts. One of my friends is a cart-returner-type-person at a grocery store, and that’s one of his biggest pet peeves, so I’d make their job a bit easier by returning the carts to the corral–they still have to bring the carts inside the store.
It’s not like someone is hired only to retrieve carts. More likely they have to put aside other tasks to go out and fetch the things. Whatever the case, judging from the parking lots around here, no one’s cart-fetching employment is going to be threatened any time soon.
In the meantime, there are other concerns in play here. Abandoned carts block needed parking spaces, dodging them can cause accidents, runaways can damage cars or injure people.
I know no-one’s hired specifically to fetch carts, but, from my friend’s description, it is a main task for some employees. He’s described himself as a “cart specialist”. In any case, carts should be returned, both for employees’ ease and customers’ safety.
But there are more things to do than just return carts, bake cookies, and organize books. Think of the things people can do when, e.g., they’re at school. Pick up someone’s things if they drop them. Lend pencils. Help with homework. Say “please” and “excuse me”. Offer advice. Cheer someone up who’s looking glum. The IlluMimiNati would have their work cut out for them if they existed, which they may or may not.
I thought the IlluMimiNati’s purpose was to do nice things secretly.
I think this fits well with what I was saying on the main Kokonsipracy thread about there being things that are Muserly, even if the creators have never heard of Muse.
Spread wonder.
Spread wonder… I like that!
mmm.
Yes about the runaways. I was in a lot today and a cart was going straight towards a car. I think they have a cart conspiracy.
I intercepted the runaway and put other carts in order as well.
Ah! Successful mission today. I spent about half an hour after school trying to help a classmate with an English essay. The problem with that is you have to make sure they can get a good grade, but if they usually write really badly or not at all and then suddenly turn in a 3-page essay on bigotry in the 19th century the English teacher is going to notice something. Furthermore, this classmate was really bored and we were both exhausted. Then I gave up my seat to this elderly lady on the MRT train ride home, so my legs are fairly stiff. But it gave me that sort of pious, good- feeling, queen-of-snobbery sort of feeling. Which I like.
ok. I’ll have to help people in this class…
Someone started spreading rumors that I was a Nazi sympathizer (which really strikes deep because I’m Jewish). I stopped him in the hallway and asked him why he was spreading rumors about me. He punched me in the stomach because I wouldn’t let him go to the next class. Fortunately, I flexed my stomach in time. I let him go, but he wouldn’t agree to stop.
Nazi sympathizer?? Exactly how old were these people?
How exactly do you flex your stomach? I should really learn to do that…
We went to Home Depot yesterday, and I wandered around looking for things to do for a while. I straitened some sample tiles, put the paint swatches in their proper place (some of them were sticking way up) and helped the employee while we were getting rope. My family might have spotted me, I dunno if they care, and I know the employee did. Anyway, there wasn’t much to do there, but it was a start. Haven’t been anywhere else where IluMimiNati skills are needed, unfortunately. Still, I’ll be on the lookout for them. We should have secret greetings/farewells, so non-IlluMimiNati don’t come invade the thread. As soon as they get here, of course, they get told the word things, but it’d still be cool. Any suggestions?
Well, we’re all MBers.
I’m not really SudoRandom, I’m only PseudoSudoRandom. Because this is a nonexistent thread. Anybody who reads this must have eaten some whacky mushrooms, because this comment is about as real as a pink Kiwi. But if hpks existed, then you would be reading about this:
“I’d love to join the IlluMimiNatis! This is the kind of stuff i love! And 62.1.1.1, if you want to do stuff secretly, then buy pencils and leave them in some part of the classroom where people will find them easily. I think i’ll do that. Ticonderogas. Huh. My foolish computer say’s that’s not a word. must be those mushrooms.”
*snorts* Kiwi!
Kiwi!
(62.1.1.1.1) “Spread wonder.” Excellent.
On a more mundane note: When I lived in Palo Alto in the 1980s, there were a lot of bumper stickers around that said “VISUALIZE WORLD PEACE.” Then one day I saw one that said “Forget World Peace. Visualize Using Your Turn Signal.”
That strikes me as a thoroughly Illumiminated sentiment. Using your turn signal does more for world peace than visualizing it will ever do.
That is amazing. You see some great things on bumper stickers from time to time.
I’m stealthy enough… maybe… if I don’t trip…
Um, yeah, um, anyway. *is very lost* Well, yeah, anyway, count me in for this hypothetically-but-not-really-existent-secret-society.
No membership fee if you sign up now!
Nice, GAPAs, nice. 
I have been a member of this organization for quite some time now, if it means that I have to fit the description. OOPS- what organization? I’m not part of any organization!
*whispers* I’ll join this organ––! *shouts* Yeah, I’m joining the, uh, Organ Club! At, er, the Organ Society! No need for alarm or further investigation!
59.1- Not exaggerating. She was two feet – give or take an inch or two.
72- Good plan. I am an organist myself. So, do you enjoy theatre or classical organ music more?
62.1.1.1.1 (KaiYves)- You’ve got my vote for the IlluMimiNati’s motto/mantra. “Spread wonder.”
Helped the classmate again today. And for some reason the entire train back was almost completely filled with pregnant women! (the sign says you have to make way for those who are elderly, disabled, or pregnant). I… what else did I do today? *flips through agenda* Oh yes, I went to the mall after school for a snack and found a lost three-year-old that was screaming for its mother. So I took it to the front desk and stayed with it until its parents heard the announcement.
74/68/62.1.1.1.1.1- Really? Thanks, guys!
62.1.1.1.1- Excellent. Definitely the motto.
I went with my father to vote because he felt lonely and held the door for an old man.
And when I finish on MuseBlog, I’m going to go educate people about the Hubble Servicing Mission on Marvel’s boards.
is it too late to join
Pleeeaaassseee
I meant please could i join of course.
I almost have my black belt in karate
OOPS! I made a mistake on my last post. What I meant was, If this thread actually exists, which is debatable, I would have gone around in Home Depot a few days ago looking for stuff to do, and would have found all the above stuff and I might or might not have done it, and I haven’t been anywhere else where IlluMimiNati skills could have been needed, if IlluMimiNati existed, and since they probably don’t, I cannot imagine where I came up with that word, and we could have had secret greetings, etc. if the IlluMimiNati existed. Which, presumably, they don’t. All in all, a very erroneous post, my last one. Glad I caught myself.
I’m pretty sure Mimi would say that the IlluMimiNati exist if they would make you feel better by existing. (It certainly makes me feel better to know that others share my compulsion to strike small blows against thoughtlessness, stupidity, and chaos.)
I must admit that I have not stepped into the populated world since Sunday, but tomorrow I’ll be going to VA, so there should be plenty of ways to do covert good deeds. I shall report back at the end of the week. *polite exiting bow*
82- So, they exist if you think they should? Clever. Nice to have an organization that can pull off such a far-fetched idea as that. I’m impressed.
(84) It’s not nearly as far-fetched as the things some people think the Illuminati (with one “mi” instead of two) have pulled off.
But we’ve only existed for a few days !!!
Or maybe it’s just now we’ve given it a name.
Okay, I did my first mission today. It consisted of two things, actually. I helped a friend with her brochure for Puerto Rico. (We make them in Social Studies class.) I also helped someone with a computer problem in Language Arts. I’m going to try to do something else tomorrow!
I have recently stopped two fights, is that sort of thing good?
Yes, that’s very good.
Very, very, good.
Yes, great.
*raises hand*
Yesterday my friend was really upset. She has friends and family in Sri Lanka and she has no idea what’s happened to any of them, except one distant relation who was killed. So we climbed up on the roof and lay there and cried together. Then today she thanked me for comforting her. She just got a letter saying that two known family members are dead, but the rest are alive. So it was a time of mixed feelings. I baked her chocolate biscuits. Then I remembered that she’s lactose-intolerant. *sighs* I am trying to be nice but I keep messing up.
Doesn’t sound like messing up to me if she felt comforted.
“then I remembered that she’s lactose-intolerant” haha! I’m allergic to milk and eggs and peanuts and walnuts and pecans and orange juice hehe…………….. But I believe that it’s the thought that counts!
Lactose-intolerant… I’m lots-more-intolerant.
Yes, Oxlin?
What is it, Oxlin?
Sad thing is, I didn’t even realise it had two mi’s.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
I organized the trays in the lunch room. (Why can’t people set them up right?!) The pile was really, seriously messed up.
I tend to randomly sort stuff at disorganized stores. ‘Tis great fun.
I walked my brothers to their friend’s house and corrected the librarian when she misread “11” as “2” (She thought it was Roman numerals).
89)I am allergic to band aids.
i am a red stripe in tae kwon do. my best friend calls me “sleepy the awesome impossible ninja” i call her McChicken but that’s beside the point.
I helped my teacher pick up papers after someone knocked them off her desk. yeah i know…it’s gonna change the world.
It changed part of the world.
The IlluMimiNati.
Brilliant, GAPAs.
“Unlike a similarly named supersecret organization depicted in certain popular books, movies, and video games, these are GOOD guys.”
This is amazing.
Oh, and I saw a t-shirt in Augusta that read:
NINJAS WEAR SAFETY GOGGLES.
You have to admit, it’s a very logical possibility.
94- I do that too. I enjoy organizing all the stuffed animals so they’re all sitting up and looking outward. I have no clue why it’s fun, but it is, somehow. Anyway, I found a really neat song that embodies the IlluMimiNati fairly well. Actually, I just remembered it, since I’ve known about it for a while. Here it is, more or less:
Aspenglow
John Denver
See the sunlight through the pines
Taste the warm of winter wine
Dream of softly falling snow
Winter snow
Aspenglow
As the winter days unfold
Hearts grow warmer with the cold
Peace of mind is all you know
Winter snow
Aspenglow
Aspen is a life to live
See how much there is to give
See how strongly you believe
See how much you may receive
Smiling faces all around
Laughter is the only sound
Memories that can’t grow old
Winter snow
Aspenglow
Aspen is a life to live
See how much there is to give
See how strongly you believe
See how much you may receive
See the sunlight through the pines
Taste the warm of winter wine
Dream of softly falling snow
Winter snow
Aspenglow
Winter snow
Aspenglow
98- That’s a great song. I vacuumed the house with my mom and I’m going to help out at a kite-flying thing at a city park later today.
Another good song for the IlluMimiNati:
We Are All Made of Stars
Moby
Growing in numbers
Growing in speed
Can’t fight the future
Can’t fight what I see
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
‘Cause we are all made of stars
Efforts of lovers
Left in my mind
I sing in the reaches
We’ll see what we find
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
‘Cause we are all made of stars
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
‘Cause we are all made of stars
Slow slow slow, come come
Someone come come come
Even love is goin’ ’round
You can’t ignore what is goin’ ’round
Slowly rebuilding
I feel it in me
Growing in numbers
Growing in peace
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
‘Cause we are all made of stars
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
‘Cause we are all made of stars
People they come together
(People they come together)
People they fall apart
(People they fall apart)
No one can stop us now
(No one can stop us now)
‘Cause we are all made of stars
(We are all made of stars)
We are all made of stars
People they come together
We are all made of stars
(People they fall apart)
We are all made of stars
(No one can stop us now)
‘Cause we are all made of stars
(We are all made of stars)
Funfunfunfunfun! I always wanted to be a ninja. All sneaky and cool, y’know? But I’m a klutz. Seriously. Like, “I do not belong near anything breakable, including people,” kind of klutz. But I do break up messy conversations, or awkward silences. I either act strange, so people laugh at me instead of fighting, or I fake cough loudly (aHEm!). It works, let me tell you!
I don’t think it’s ACTUALLY ninjas. It’s the IlluMi… the Illumination Club! Yeah, that’s it…
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. *runs off humming Anchors Aweigh* (It’s the Memorial Day Parade, tomorrow, too.)
100) Don’t worry, I’m a part-time klutz. When I’m thinking about something else/daydreaming, anything lose cascades to the floor. When I arrange the book next to my bed or beanbag in intricate piles or sneak around, I don’t bump into anything.
100.1- But more importantly, tomorrow’s TOWEL DAY! I still need to read HG2G. Anyway, I haven’t (possibly) come across any deeds (that I would do if the IluMimiNati existed) in the past few days. Must keep looking.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you. Memorial Day is far more important than Towel Day. We’re remembering all the people who fought and died for our country and for the world. Please don’t just ignore all those lives lost.
I know. I was kidding. Sorry. I probably shouldn’t have joked about something that important to many people.
100.1- Are you changing your name to SilverLeopard for good? Because (And please don’t get me wrong, I like both of your name choices!!!) SilverLeopard sounds a whole lot like Silver Lining.
Are you sure I can’t be a ninja? Wow, I nearly typed “lizard” instead of “ninja.”
Well, you can be, but this is not the place for it.
104) I still need to work on my good deeds- I unblocked the door to history class yesterday, when R., V. and A. thought it would be funny to stand in the door frame, blocking it and not letting anyone out. I shoved them out of the way…
*tries to persuade self to do real IlluMimiNati deeds*
(105) Sometimes the IlluMimiNati have to take direct action.
Why?
106) I was actually showing off that I was stronger than most of the girls and some of the boys in my class. And I wanted to get home and eat lunch. But it does have a sort of ninja allure.
I had an OCD moment and neatened/reordered a CD rack at the mall. It was terrible. The Black Parade is NOT a Marylin Manson album, there should not be Sweeney Todd soundtracks in the Punk Comilations section, Attack Attack starts with A, not F, so on and so forth. How are you supposed to find the CD you want if every single row starts off with Silverstein? No, sir. It took me a while, but I did it.
I tried to keep the projects in chronological order when setting up for Museum Day- and all of them ended up fitting in- except mine! The only place there was enough room for my probe models was in the middle of the WWII section.
We need more tables.
I’m very big on organizing the books in our school closets. “Physics always goes next to astronomy, they’re best friends.”
And I went completely OCD and fixed the YA section in the library.
What exactly is this? I’ll be whatever it is!! Mememememimimimimi!
Read the thread description and the above comments. I, being a member of the PoPoPo, fine you three kilos of virtual choklit.
im sneaky and silent and camo and….
oh i am just a geek really, but i can sneak
u qiyks kujw ri hiub
not gibberish!! code, try to figure it out!
“I would like to join.” And so you may.
90, 91) I wasn’t joining any kind of organization. Uh huh.
I have a great “IDEA”
Go to school and put up signs just before everybody comes to school on the buses. The teachers will take them down, but it will be too late.
Lame joke- What do you hear when the Pink Panther steps on a bug? Answer: Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant… Get it? You sort of have to sing it. (I told you it was lame.)
Oh my gosh. My mom LITERALLY sings that any time there’s a dead ant in the house.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
*pink panther theme* *sneaks in from darkness* *trips* *falls and lock self in closet* HELP!!!!! GET ME OUT!!! Geuss I’m not cut out for this job…
115.1- I meant to post that here.
I’m in!!
My muserly goal for the summer was to make a friend a day, but that isn’t working out very well, so I changed it to one good deed a day. Hm. Maybe sometime I could go leave kokonspiracy mission statements around the science center. That seems sorta IlluMimiNati.
I’m going to see the real Illuminati film soon with friends. I can’t wait!
Sneaky people needed? Errrr….I wouldn’t exactly consider myself sneaky-more like clumsy if you want to know the truth. But I could always try…
Someone should make an IlluMimiNati video/ movie/ video trailer!
I would LOVE to do that!
I really need to get out to the Custer Observatory again, because one of the scientists promised to teach me how to program computers, and I think this would come in handy for our mission.
I have a great idea. How about our IlluMimiNati code phrase is, “What do you get when you multiply six by nine?” We’ll ask it to various people, and if they say 54, we know they’re not one of us. Whereas if they say forty-two, then they are. And if they say anything else, they aren’t doing the math right.
Yeah! I like that! Let’s do it!
Appallingly, no one in my theater class has read HG2G.
And that has to do with f&h’s post…. how? Not to mention the thread?
Yeah!
I thought he was replying to my post.
Can I join?
Spread wonder, throw pies.
Im in! I WAS taking martial arts, and I loved it, BUT………my mom made me quit because she thought it was stupid
IT WASN’T!!!!!
So anyway yeah what do we have to do to be in…
The Illumiminati have been dead for a while… If you believe they exist, anyway. If you don’t, of course, they never existed at all. I’m guessing this thread has been almost dead since a few days/weeks after it scrolled off the ‘Most Recent Posts’ list. The pattern repeats itself…
“Dead”? I wouldn’t put it that way. I’d say “even more secretive than usual.”
Ah, well, that’s true I suppose. Posting your secret kindnesses for all to see would be rather revealing. All the same, I miss the openness.
I’m going to try the cookies thing, I think, but instead of making them with Koko frosting, I’ll do Mimi frosting. Anybody know a cookie recipe that tastes good with frosting/ is simple?
(Oh, and since Mimi might be hard to draw, do you have any outlines of her I could use, Rebecca? Otherwise I might just write “Mimi” on them…)
I want to join! But…what exactly do we do? I’m stealthy enough I think (I’m a little black cat. “Course I’m stealthy.).
I talked about this on the Random Thread a little bit, but at school today, I printed out three color copies of the official poster for the next space shuttle mission and borrowed some masking tape. On the way to the public library to see my Math tutor, I attached them to telephone poles. When I showed one to a policewoman to ask if I could put it up on a certain street corner, she not only said yes, she helped me and said the poster was beautiful.
Mission accomplished.
*ahem*
If the IlluMimiNati existed, this would be the perfect time to reinvigorate it. A lot of people on MuseBlog have been going through some hard times lately, and I’ve found that nothing helps during those sorts of times as helping other people. Now, if this organization were real (which it clearly can’t be), it would want to have as many agents as possible performing acts of illumimination. Little things, mostly, though larger ones if the situation arises. Holding doors. Inviting lonely people to sit at a lunch table. Confronting bullies. Helping anyone that looks like they may need some help. As Robert put it, “strik[ing] small blows against thoughtlessness, stupidity, and chaos”.
Of course, this is all just nonsense–such an organization couldn’t possibly exist.
Clearly. It’s inconceivable.
Um … the other day two girls were fighting at my school, and people were cheering the usual “Fight! Fight! Fight!” I tried to start a counter-chant of “Stop fighting! Stop fighting!” No one listened in my case, but was thinking that MBers could do this whenever they see a fight. Or, um … join hands and sing!
I made friends with the postmistress at my local Post Office. She’s very kind, and a lot of people don’t send letters anymore or only visit very briefly to pick something up or get their passport pictures taken, so she liked having someone to talk to.
She said they’d be getting Alan Shepard stamps on May 5th, the 50th anniversary of his flight (First American in space), and I’m definitely going to buy a lot of them. After all, the Postal Service is a government corporation, so they need to sell a lot of stamps to make money.
I feel sorry for the United States Postal Service. And you have just reminded me that I need to write a letter in reply to my grandfather.
I saved a fly from drowning recently, but I told my mom about it afterward. I really don’t go out into public much, but I try to do what I can. If the Illumiminati existed, I would wish that people saw this thread and were reminded of it.
I wish this organization existed, because then I would have earned the Science Scouts’ “I May Look Like A Scientist But I’m Actually Also A Ninja” badge. On the other hand, I’d have to keep it secret wouldn’t I? That would sort of defeat the point. Maybe I would be able to make jokes about it and pretend I hadn’t really earned it?
Today I advocated for space with the unstoppable power of pie!
I bought mini apple pies (the rectangular kind that come in cardboard boxes) and 2-packs of poptarts at the convenience store, taped information pages about space exploration topics (including relevant web addresses) and papers saying “FREE SPACE PIE!” to them, and left them in common rooms on other floors in my dorm.
Unidentified Pieing Objects, eh? Very resourceful.
On Monday, I got linked to a documentary where a reporter revealed a group of WWII reenactors as containing several actual Neo-Nazis, including hidden camera footage of some of them saying terrible, terrible things, and it upset me a lot. Then I got to thinking about Robert’s observation about moats and walls becoming more popular and some other pieces of bad news, and I ended up just feeling really sad and frustrated and worrying about the future. But it was time for bed, so I got a glass of water and noticed that there were still dirty dishes in the sink. I really had to go to bed to get 8 hours before we had to wake up for the dig, but I thought that when I got back the next day, I should do whatever dishes were there, because it would make my roommates happier.
“I can’t create world peace, but I can do the dishes.” I thought. So when I got home yesterday, that’s what I did, and the same today. Maybe it didn’t do much for world peace, but it did something for appartment peace, and our appartment is part of the world. And I realized today that this was exactly why the Illumiminati was created.
I can’t create world peace, but I can do the dishes.
Spoken like a true Illumiminata.