In 2002, prankster Andy Bichlebaum got invited to present in Finland on behalf of the World Trade Organization. What the conference organizers failed to notice was that his web site, gatt.org, was a spoof of the WTO and not the actual WTO. At the conference, he gave a stunning lecture outlining the WTO’s stance that the US Civil War was unnecessary, because paid third world labour is cheaper than importing and maintaining slaves. He then went on to demonstrate the above pictured Employee Visualization Appendage – a suit with a screen built into the phallus appendage where managers at headquarters can keep tabs on employees in remote countries.
More startling than the presentation itself, was that by speaking in a rational tone, being articulate, and maintaining his composure through the talk, he was taken quite seriously by otherwise intelligent people. The lecture with accompanying photo appeared in the next day’s newspaper in Helsinki, and went on to be published in Fortune magazine.
The whole ordeal, plus others, appears in the 2003 documentary “The Yes Men” where Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos (as Andy Bichlebaum and Mike Bonanno) get repeatedly mistaken as actual representatives of the WTO and proceed to use PowerPoint, whacky costumes, and the animations of a fired Maxis employee to mock the world of corporate economics.
I'm not sure vaht he is sayink but I like hish outfit.
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Step 1: Discover a reliable method to teach critical thinking.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Nobel Prize.
Off topic, but has anyone else been having problems with Intense Debate? If I sign in, I stay signed in on the intensedebate.com/people page, but not on AT or Hooniverse. It seems to be a bigger problem on Chrome than on IE or Android. I've tried deleting cookies and restarting Chrome, to no avail; the only way to post from that browser is to do so as a guest.
When I go back to the intensedebate.com/people page, it shows me as being logged in. Even if I log out, then go to a commenting page to log in as part of a commenting process, Hoonitoast tells me I'm not logged in, but the intense debate page does use that ID and password to log me in for Intense Debate only.
They've been having some troubles with IntenseDebate for last few days. I'll send your comment to the Guy Who Fixes Things.
Yeah it's been having some issues. Replies made to me haven't been sent to my email inbox untill days later.
I'm assuming it's an issue with intense debate as a whole so I'm sure they're on it.
"stay signed in"? I've never found a way to do that, I have to log in to every story I comment on.
Here's the movie's website: http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/
It's also on Netflix streaming: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Yes_Men_Fix…
Worth a watch if you ask me.
FWIW, "The Yes Men Fix The World" is a different documentary; this device appears in the earlier one simply titled "The Yes Men".
Walk softly and carry a big what?
I hear Tommy Lee needs a support garter for his, um, podium too.
The guy must be trying to hide a limp wad if he needs a strap to hold it up.
This sounds like the plot of the newest Mission Impossible movie.