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The word duringlife came to Jones while writing a comment on Boing Boing. | The word duringlife came to Jones on the morning of April 9, 2020, while writing a comment on the Boing Boing comment board. | ||
In a thread about a video apparently showing large spacecraft near the moon, user [https://bbs.boingboing.net/u/prius04 prius04] asked: | |||
"Could they be dolphins? Has anyone checked to see if our dolphins are all gone?" | "Could they be dolphins? Has anyone checked to see if our dolphins are all gone?" | ||
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Jones replied: | Jones replied: | ||
<blockquote>Give me a few minutes while I drop acid and commune with John Lilly (who communes with dolphins in the Afterlife, as during the Duringlife) from within my gravity-free Vantablack sensory deprivation tank. | <blockquote>Give me a few minutes while I drop acid and commune with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly John Lilly] (who communes with dolphins in the Afterlife, as during the Duringlife) from within my gravity-free [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack Vantablack] sensory deprivation tank. | ||
After that, let’s get high and | After that, let’s get high and watch ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_States Altered States]''. With dolphins. | ||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | |||
* [[John C. Lilly (nonfiction)]] - John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor. He was a member of a generation of counterculture scientists and thinkers that included Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists. | |||
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[[Category:Jokes (nonfiction)]] | |||
[[Category:Jokes by Karl Jones (nonfiction)]] | |||
Latest revision as of 04:27, 9 April 2020
The Duringlife is a humorous term for life coined by Karl Jones.
Origin
The word duringlife came to Jones on the morning of April 9, 2020, while writing a comment on the Boing Boing comment board.
In a thread about a video apparently showing large spacecraft near the moon, user prius04 asked:
"Could they be dolphins? Has anyone checked to see if our dolphins are all gone?"
Jones replied:
Give me a few minutes while I drop acid and commune with John Lilly (who communes with dolphins in the Afterlife, as during the Duringlife) from within my gravity-free Vantablack sensory deprivation tank.
After that, let’s get high and watch Altered States. With dolphins.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- John C. Lilly (nonfiction) - John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor. He was a member of a generation of counterculture scientists and thinkers that included Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists.