понеділок, 25 грудня 2017 р.

#@)₴?$0 - Found Poem Time!


Look what i have found! For once i have found something interesting written in my native language. It is not much of a thing - just a throwaway but delightful descriptive line lost in the sea of dum-dum dull television criticism. Because of deliberate lack of context it is utterly enigmatic. It says "bars, doggie, bracket, hryvna sign, question mark, dollar sign, zero". It also features a couple of blank underlines and two letters "A". The latter part was created with a little help from The Deletionist tool. Because of algorithm limitations instead doing its schtick - it simply deletes all the words if they are not in English. Quite handy when you need to clean things up before doing the screensnap. 

The enigmatic line is a backronym from the nondescript unutterable title of the TV show known as "#@)₴?$0". It is weekly satirical news commentary program that features a journalist playing the character Michael Schur - canadian of ukrainian descent who came back to Ukraine because of retroactive apparently phantom nostalgia. Think about Colbert or Stewart. It is something like that. The show is fine. But it doesn't matter.  What matters is the found poem.

For me "#@)₴?$0" is the best thing about the show. While in the context of the show the title actually serves as an umbrella master comment on every event that gets into the show - outside context the title is simply a impenetrable beautiful ding an sich. It is beyond reasonable comprehension and thus can be interpreted in a variety of increasingly off-putting ways. Basically it is a covert piece of asemic writing. It is illegible thus potentially open for extreme overthinking. And who am i to waste good chance to overthink something? Let's go George Carlin on this! 

"#@)₴?$0" might be: 
  • overwhelming enpuzzlement 
  • hideous irritation
  • obnoxious annoyance
  • startling tumult
  • stunning perplexity
  • debilitating frustration 
  • emolliating dismay
  • excruciating confusion
  • pernicious tribulation
  • gnawing botheration
  • poignant nuisance
  • impudent repugnance
  • bitter rancor
  • scathing abashment 
  • harrowing exasperation
  • condescending embroilment 
  • arcane chafe
  • vanquishing vexation
  • callous chagrin
  • septic spite
  • odious objection
  • palpable peeve
  • gargling affliction
  • heinous irksomeness
  • flabbergasting maladjustment
  • daunting confoundment
  • incongruous bamboozle
  • ossified balderdash
  • malicious enthrallment
  • nocuous enmity
  • depletable regurgitation
I can go on like that all night long without breaking a sweat until the break of dawn when i will be distracted by the solemn somber song of the Great Tits. Which is not exactly what you think it is but also exactly what you think but in a different way.

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