AnTiFreeze3 said:
My questions is this: How did corruption seep its sticky, sadistic fingers into the tender eye sockets of the organization known as the Yippers?
The anser to this reading comprehension pop quiz is: no one knows why except for you and you're not telling.
Regardless, the astute might suspect the origin of their corruption was pride, due to the well known incident when, after the band was awarded their 20 platinum album, their leader quipped,"We're getting to be more popular than Alfred Einstein!"
Their adoring public was shocked by this boast. No one could believe
The Yippers had the gall to compare themselves to the author of that earth-shaking 1905 paper,
On the Electrodynamics of Nocturnally Roving Herds of Weird, Purple Jellyfish, the paper that launched
Jellativity, and Jelliphysics in general. (see post 996 [and following] of this thread) Alfred Einstein just could not be compared to, much less exceeded. He was the limit of popularity, beyond which nothing can go. Yet, here these upstart Yippers were claiming usurpation, claiming to have broken the Alfred barrier.
Of course they were thereafter vilified, and sank into licking cane toads, beard growing, and their lyrics became stranger and weirder until they fell apart and disbanded. 10 years later, Zipper Yipper, the leader who made the fateful quip, was beaten to death with a weird, purple jellyfish outside his Manhattan apartment building by a deranged fan who thought he, himself, was the real Zipper Yipper and that the real one was an imposter running around impertinently imposting him with impunity.
Which brings us to the entertaining quetion, "What's your favorite alliteration of words beginning in 'imp'?"