OUR MANI-fun-sto

The world is a joke; are you laughing? 

Without passion, without wonderment, the banality of existence is nigh unbearable. It is true that many exist who wish to make the world a stranger place (strangers, as they are known) but they lack the manpower for jinks of any higher nature. Conversely, there are also those who might join in on the bizarre, but don’t have the means (time, inspiration, facilities) to execute plans of their own. There are no avenues for creating such strange phenomena in the world today. Artists work individually to make weird and fun things happen, but joculites exist un-united and unsupported by their fellow joshers. The solution to this issue is clear. Buffoons need a network, (a League,even) to announce their waggish capers. 

And so, the League exists to bring as many people in on the joke as possible. Each one of us who submits an idea, or simply wants to be informed of others’ ideas, may join the mailing list. At first, we gather ideas, gather mail-ees. Then we disseminate the plans for whimsical activities we have received to the batty bulletin board, where you will receive amusing announcements for each new idea, and may sign on with their originators. We start small, but the more ideas we receive, the larger our base grows, and the higher scale and concept ideas we can perform. That is to say, the more you spread our ideas, our philosophy, the more effective it becomes. 

The very question “How do I become a member of the league” is a moot point. In asking it, you have already become a member. Whimsical Mirth is a system of thought, rather than an exclusive club. Members should endeavour to invite everyone to the philosophy through blithesome japes. The mailing list concept is only a precursor, to get us off the ground. Once a society of daring joculites is thriving, we will no longer have need for such simple things, and ideas will be spread among your fellow farceurs through any number of avenues. It is a system which replaces itself as it evolves. We are only a jumping board for our own ideas.

Let us speak of how our philosophy spreads. We have been vague thus far.

For example, an ideal concept might be “getting as many people to dress up as businessmen as possible, and then walking around in a group, having various business meetings in unexpected locations”. The question for the general public becomes “Why is this happening? What on Earth is going on?” allowing members of the League to direct them (in of course, a very business-like fashion) to the League of Whimsical Mirth’s resources. More read our festive manifesto, more are ready to spread the idea. More are in on the joke. And of course, those who are uninterested or uninteresting will never stop to ask the businessmen in the first place, and we will never run out of an audience for the joke until the scale is global, and a jocose society rules with a whimsical fist.

This being said, ideas and philosophies can be dangerous when unsupported by common sense. Jokes and pranks can be cruel. This is not the intention of the League, and it does not support any harmful activities. Although the League shares ideas with its member base, the League does not run, organize, or take responsibility for any of these events, only lets members know they are happening. Although we promote your ideas back to you and to larger audiences, they are still your ideas. The League has the right to refuse promoting any plan that it believes may decrease general mirth or lead to harm. Events should be above all else, whimsical, and bear no ill intent to any parties. The League’s thoughts on this matter coincidentally align shockingly well with OCADU’s non-academic misconduct policy, so please refer to that for further questions.