My First List

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Wikihow is certainly not a 'tongue-in-cheek' site. My take is that it is a serious attempt to convey useful information in the spirit of the information age. But for some reason my demented little mind seized on the idea that wikihow could be 'perverted' in the direction of sheer humor.

For example, I immediately thought of authoring an article titled something like, 'How to overcome excessive potty training.' As I thought about the proposed article I laughed and laughed. Then I began making connections from potty training to conventionality, to religion, to politics, to everyday life. The more I thought about it the funnier it became.

I know lots of stuff you don't know. It follows, of course, that you know lots of stuff I don't know. That is the genius of wikihow: you can confide in The Other even though you two will never meet.

As I explored wikihow I considered at least the following list of possible articles: