In my current line of work as a social scientist, I often ponder the representativeness of samples. (This is not entirely dissimilar from pondering the fairness of kickball teams, something I often did in my previous line of work as a gym teacher.) Anyway, were I asked whether the Tubtributors constitute a representative sample of the American populus, I would be forced to say no. We overrepresent a lot of demographics. A preponderance of us are hilarious, white alcoholics residing in major metripolitan areas on the east coast. We're overeducated, overprivileged, and overly self-indulgent. And, as a group, we like Ben Folds a whole lot more than does your average group 11 people and a robot.
I really like Ben Folds. When he came to Cornell in '03, it was very important to me that I got good seats, so I tried to camp out for tickets with my friends. (It ended up being too cold to actually camp "out," so we camped "in" - inside a heated ATM booth near the ticket office. But this doesn't render our fanaticism any less hard-core.) Anyway, I'm not the only Folds-loving Tubtrib. Judging by Phylan's phacebook photo, he and KELLYq are total BFFs with Ben. And I would guess that the average number of Folds concerts attended by a Tubtributor is greater than the average number of children birthed into an American family.
Thus, we're celebrating Ben this week. But not in some sort of obnoxious manner that would render our posts inaccessible to the common man. Ben wouldn't like that. Instead, everyone will be titling their post with the title of a song by Ben Folds. Post content need not deal with Ben in the slightest. Post content simply need be related to the title of a song written (or covered) by Ben Folds (and/or Ben Folds Five).
And, for the record, posts titled with disc titles (that are not also song titles) will not receive full credit. Especially if the title in question is "Naked Baby Photos." Wouldn't want to turn this into a smutfest.
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