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(Obviously, he's wearing sunglasses to cover up the rings)
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[Insert desired fairytale with mythical creatures and singing, dancing, furniture/animals. And one male and one female lead character plus one evil villian and several henchmen]
And they lived happily ever after. And pareto optimality was acheived in the village marketplace, unemployment was down to zero as the lowliest peasant got a job as an outhouse cleaner, inflation was down to zero because the country had run out of gold, everyone minded their own business and demerit goods were banned so there were no externalities, and even the lowliest peasant had Ye Olde Internet, so there was no information failure. Everyone owned a business, so no one had any market power. And Ye Olde Medieval Goods were sold at the Ye Olde Private Cost it took to make them. The end, now pay up so we can make loads of cash from fantastic franchising deals. :)
*Be sure to check out the previous post: 2006 Mugger's Lexicon if you haven't!
Introduction
A Guide to Muggers
Muggers evolved as a separate branch of the human race a a few thousand years ago when education started. They are human, but have extraordinary ability to process and intake information. It is believed to be caused by mutations(also part of evolution) thus giving them amazing abilities to study and provides them with immunity to common human limitations such as sleepiness and boredom. But remember! Muggers are human too!
Common Mugger: Homo Muggerus*
This is the most common type of Mugger found. An entity which take can survive on pure information alone. It feeds on a regular diet of lecture notes, tutorials, and TYSes. It feeds a minimum of 4 hours on weekdays and 10 hours on weekends. It is believed this strange schedule is set by the queen of the colony. Commonly found in regions of high information density, e.g. schools, and outside photocopying shops. It is theorised the smell of wet ink contains a pheromone which lures them there. Prevalent in all educational institutions everywhere, and easy to spot. Possesses a great love of books and notes. Very alert and attentive, not even the most sleep-inducing of lecturers can affect them.
It is believed their bodies may naturally produce amounts of caffeine to stimulate and energise them. Also possessing well-developed spatial ability and great directions. Most are thought to have photographic memory and can easily find the shortest distance between two points in a building. However, this ability is only exhibited in educational institutions.
Some Muggers are believed to be triggered by the ringing of the school bell, which releases large amounts of ATP(energy for the non-bio students) in their legs. This enables them to move at supernatural speeds from one location to another before the majority of the student population have even put their writing instruments in their pencil cases. This has often caused some confusion in the general public about Muggers and Vampires which also have the same unnatural ability.
*Muggers contain 2 subspecies. one hostile, one not.
Silent Mugger:
Prefers to mug alone, without companionship. The "lone wolves" of the species. May appear outwardly slacker(see below) among others.
Ninja Mugger:
A hostile version of the silent mugger. Mugs, alone but ACTIVELY tries to induce other muggers into becoming slacker(see below) mutants when among them. Acts as a mutagen.
Slacker:
A mutant form of a mugger. Instead of mugging, this entity rejects the food accustomed to its species and feeds on what muggers define as Evil (see below). A social outcast among muggers.
JC Constant = (Sad + Sian - Social Life)(Mugging) x 2 {3 if studying in MI}
Le Kenneth's Principle:
The equilibrium of JC life defined as education void of social life with the addition of unhappiness and sianness, multipled by the rate of mugging, to the power of the years of education at tertiary level.
Rate of Mugging:
Extent to which information is carried over a concentration gradient i.e. book to head. Theoretically, the highest rate of mugging can be attained by touching the head to the book. However, as books do not behave as real information, they are unideal information, and may not flow with the concentration gradient because at low temperature, the inter-knowledge forces of attraction between the words are greater.
Ideal Information Formula of Books : (Number of words)(Number of pages)(JC constant) /(Size of book)
Evil:
Defined as something bad for mugging. i.e. Television; Computer; MTV; MSN; Music excluding classical.
Disclaimer: This is meant to be purely harmless satire. All resemblances to all person(or Muggers), living or dead are purely coincidental. No Muggers were harmed in the writing of this guide. We do not HATE Muggers or anything. It's just humor. =] And no, it is NOT directed against anyone. Mugging is just another way of studying. Most do so with less frequency and intensity only. In short, we are all muggers! (If only to a small extent)
-Chieng and Ang,
2006 Mugger's Lexicon ( 2nd Revised Edition)
OGL Applications
Labels: plastic muggers
After mugging so hard, the Plastic Muggers try out for the OGL application.
The Plastic Muggers comment on the recent haze. Labels: plastic muggers
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You know you're a mugger when :
1) You think you're not spending enough time watching tv.
2) You delete your warcraft file to create space for wr.
3) You download every single lecture on IVLE.
4) You READ every single lecture on IVLE TWICE.
5) You hold a mug and go 'ger'.
6) Lecture has finished and you can't wait for the next one.
7) Your homework is done 2 months ahead of time.
8) Your teachers praise you for handing in extra work.
9) Your friends look at you and say 'mugger'.
10) Your grades are A A A A*
11) Ninety percent of your time is spent on studying, the other ten on sleeping. You run on pure oxygen.
12) Your notes have your finger dents on them.
13) You can eat up your lecture notes without panicking.
14) You can recite your work backwards. And forwards, before attempting to go middle back front.
15) When you read the above and say, 'like that also count meh?"
What happens to your WR after you submit it.
Since today is the WR deadline for submission, Plastic Muggers will be making an appearance in a short comic. Enjoy?
Note: Reader should note that the "teacher" came from an older set of Lego. A half-evolved version, if you like. In true mugger fashion, here's a page off some old toy textbook.
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Telltale signs of an outright mugger (Part 2) - Math
I posted something like this on my own blog before, and I feel it's good mugalomaniac material. So I tried to recreate it (more-or-less) from memory.
Telltale signs of an outright Math mugger:
1) You refer to something you don't know at lambda or mil.
e.g. He's talking lamba to me, or, Teacher, the note are mil to me.
2) You use vectors to plan your journey in the shortest time. Then find you can only move in the Y-axis by taking the stairs or jumping off 3 storeys (3j)
3) You formulate AP to calculate how many scoops it will take to finish each grain of your chicken rice assuming you take 40 grains per spoonful.
4) You feel naked unless you bring your GC out with you.
5) You write your GP essay in Mathlish.
e.g. 3 dots= therefore, upside down 3 dots = because, slashed equal = not equal.
6) When you are asked to differentiate between 2 objects, you put one on top of the other.
7) You spell function room as f (room)
8) When you are asked to cut a cake you attempt partial fractions on it.
9) Your idea of a Gameboy is plotting graphs on your GC in polar mode. (Look for it, it says "pol")
10)You write squiggly lines below each i, j, or, k you write in a sentence. You sometimes use a thicker pen to bold them for variety.
Defence of the Muggers has been upgraded! We've collaborated with Lego to make our game 3D! Now even YOU can mug in 3D! Enantiomers not included.
With our new upgrade, muggers can look forward to new skills! Try out the Emo cloud of Darkness today! The skill is available to all classes of muggers.
Skill: Emo Cloud of Darkness.
Effect: You fail a major test. Reduces your HP to 1/10th of maximum. Creates a thick Emo Cloud of Darkness around you. Reduces ALL enemy attacks up to 80%. Lasts for 1 minute.
Dear Mr. Satoshi Tajiri,
Congratuations on your many seasons of the Pokemon cartoon and the many franchise that has sprung from this all-so-wonderful idea of yours. As such, if given the chance, i'ld like to have the chance to meet you in person, the man behind the whole Pokemon scene. I am, of course, a great big fan of Pokemon. Or well, used to be.
In any case, through my last 6 years, i've seen many types of Pokemon on TV and on Gameboy. Yet, one thing that disturbs me the most, is how pikachu can carry out that Thunder attack, and yet, electricity is used to electrocute the opponent. I mean, isn't Thunder the loud clap of sound that is produced when lighting sparks? So, shouldn't the opponent go deaf instead of being shocked by electricity?
Being the all-so-resourceful me, i've come up with a solution for you. See, we can say that pikachu has a sort of secret sibling that resides within the clouds. It is SO secret, even the pokedex isn't able to index it. No one has seen it or heard of it. So secret, even pikachu doesn't know about this sibling of it. How then, can this be a solution?
See, this sibling of pikachu is a nucleophile. So, each time pikachu uses Thunder, the strong sound waves are able to excite pikachu's siblings by heterolytic processes so much that it donates all its electrons to anyone below. Now, pikachu can't be hit, because those two little red dots on the face are nucleophiles(where do you suppose it gets it's thunder shock attack from?). Therefore, it'll hit the electrophile instead, which is the opponent! Or sometimes team rocket. Or sometimes Ash too, as seen in the first episode. Depends.
So you see, i've solved one of Pokemon's greatest mystery for you, Mr. Satoshi Tajiri. So, instead of the current 493 Pokemons, there'll be 494 Pokemons! One of which is like, unobtainable. Maybe you can name it after me, Benedict. I already have a solution named after me, why not name a Pokemon after me too?
So, until next time, when i write in about another mistake that you've made, bye!
Lots of love(and i really mean it),
Benedict.
Introducing the PW and GSC class of muggers.
PW Mugger
Type: Mugician (long ranged spell casting)
Skill: BrainStorm
Description: User brainstorms and thinks up a lot of ideas for a PI. He channels it into the opponents' mind, thereby confusing the opponent. The opponent's brain desprately trying to take down all the ideas floating about, overloads, and fatally increases blood pressure to it. This causes bursting of blood vessels within the body. However, due to the weakness of brain waves, a lot of energy and mana is needed for this skill. Accuracy is not very high, but when hit, this skill is 90% fatal resulting in instant PK (Player Kill)
GSC Muggers
Type:Mug-knight (short-ranged melee attacks)
Skill: Chinese Wall
Because of their close ranged character these GSC-class mug-knight type charaters have high defense. One special skill is the defensive Chinese Wall. Summoning the spirits of their ancient Chinese ancestors, they are able to compress minerals and stones from the ground into a wall which bursts out from underneath. The wall lasts for 30 seconds, preventing melee damage to the user while the user can attack through it. When it bursts out of the ground, it dispenses a small amount of splash damage for one unit in either direction.
[Effect may not be that nice, but I tried my best. Lol.]
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Tell tale signs of an outright mugger. (Part 1)
One tell tale signs of an outright mugger is quite obvious. It's in their NAME. Take example, the name "Diana" seems pretty normal to any one. In fact, it was a royal name. But, consider this, what if, her siblings are called Triana and Monoana? Or even tetraana? SEE?
Mono-ana
Di-ana
Tri-ana
Tetra-ana
*GASPS*
The order of birth, followed by the fuctional group, -ana! They're named using chemistry methods! Imagine, the 8th sibling would be called nonaana!
A new hero
A new hero has just been created.
Title : The LIT-elites
These bunch of muggers may know nuts about sciences and maths, but they have a special ability called nonsentical sound.
Once activated, nonsentical sound will prevent enemy from being able to retaliate because all sense of logic will be dispersed. Only the LIT will be able to attack the enemy by creating internal confusion through nonsentical sound. Attack will last one minute before enemy can regain sense of logic.
Note : This attack does not cast any effect if used against any other LIT-elites.
-jessXW
Introducing 4 new classes of level 10 nerds are the physics-type, KI-type, history-type and geography-type level 10 nerds.
Physics-type nerds are automatically equipped with the Penduleum Bob of Doom at first spawn. Like Zena the Princess Warrior, they can throw, bind and strangle their enemies with their little penduleum bob. In addition, they form good allies with the biology-type nerds because, as we all know, the biology-type nerds have the retinoblastoma skill to fry people. This skill, coupled with physics-type nerds's ability to calculate accurately the amount of energy required to overcome the Latent Heat of Vapourisation of their enemy, would prove deadly to even to the deadliest of nerds.
History-type nerds have attacks that closely resembles those of the Undead in Warcraft. Using their thick historian spell books, they are able to command the (un)dead to do their dirty deeds for them. History-type nerds and GP-type nerds work will together since GP-type nerds have a higher tendency to die earlier due to them having to hold close one-to-one melee combat. So, when they die, the history-type nerds can use their (un)dead spell on them.
Geography-type nerds makes full use of the natural environment for their cause. Using shifts in the platonic plates, they can cause rifts to form, causing their enemies to fall in and die. Coupled with the chemistry-type nerds' ability to command pools of H2SO4 by drawing their dot-and-cross diagrams, not only can massive damage be done, the problem of waste would not occur since the acid that is formed in the rifts would sizzle their enemies to nothingness.
KI-type nerds are unique. They possess one of each ability of every other classes of nerds out there. Not only can they make you go mad with their wierd ramblings that utterly makes no sense at all, they are able to use skills that were once unique only to each class of nerds. As such, KI-type nerds are possibly the strongest class of nerds out there who can possibly easily dominate a game. However, with each strength, lies their weaknesses. They are sometimes referred to Potassium Iodide(KI) nerds. And surprisingly, they exhibit propeties of potassium iodide too, being able to dissolve in water and can have their form changed when placed with a substitutional adversary, CHLORINE.
And as before, this is still incomplete because not all classes of nerds are covered. Like Pokemon, many nerds exists and following the Pokedex, we'll try to cover as many nerds, giving you detailed information about them and how to tackle them when you meet them in World of Mugcraft. And if you think KI-nerds are bad, wait till you see what's in next.
An idea like this was once brought up between me and kenneth, to actually create or modify a game that can actually relate to Meridian (or Mugridians, to some).
So, like Warcraft, there'll also be different races of, well, race in the game. 4 actually, just to keep in line with Warcraft.
They'll be :
Actually, they only look different, because then they'll be grouped into their specialty subjects. Economics, Biology, GP, etc. Everyone starts out from a mugget, a small mugger, then they'll have to mug their way up to a level 10 nerd, where they can do special skills.
Example, a chem-type level 10 nerd can have the special skill of drawing dot-cross diagrams of H2SO4 to perform the acid swamp skill. They would also be able to command light polarisation when they draw stereoisomers of surrounding molecules, blinding all enemies within range for 20 seconds.
A math-type level 10 nerd can use the partial fraction skills to simplify and enemy down to his constituents, pulling out his limbs and whatnot apart. Or he can choose to differentiate the enemy and flatten him into one gradient line and kill him. That, coupled with the double torture combo, differentiate then d2y/dx2.
For the biology-type nerds, he would be able to command T4 phages to attach on to their enemy and make them exploded by the lytic cycle. Like that:
He would also be able to use the retinoblastoma skill, where a jet of laser comes out from their eye, instantly frying enemies around.
For GP-type nerds, they are especially good with hand-to-hand melee combat, and coupled with the special weapon that only GP-type nerds can equip, which is the Papercut skill, they can do 150% more damage to their enemies.
During combat, the corner of lecture notes stick out of the sword and multiple papercut deal 150% damage to the enemies. Close combat as it might be, a weapon like this is sure to deal a lot of damage.
The economic-type nerd would be able to draw out the demand and supply curve around the enemy. Using leftward and rightward shifts, he would be able to squash many enemies in little time. The shift in the curves, however effective, would still depend on the taste and peferences of his allies.
In World of Mugcraft:DoTM, you can play and MUG at the same time! It's like, a game that every school will support since it's an educational game. Of course, more classes of nerds will be added in the future to better meet the demands of students taking other subjects.
-bengx, kenneth, xiwen.
Do you know why it is so hazy now in Singapore? Because it's the examination period now, and everyone is smoking through their examination papers.
Let's see this in greater detail using economic concepts:
See, the haze is a negative externality derived from the consumption of examinations. When students consume examination papers, students tend to use the smoking method in their scripts which tends to, well, produce smoke. Now, at a private level, imagine one student consuming 4 examination paper during each examination period. So in one year, the student consumes 16 examination papers.
Now, looking at it at a social level, if we take in account every student that resides in Singapore, can you imagine how much smoke is produced? Because the production of smoke is not reflected in the market when examination papers are consumed, it is a demerit good as too much examination papers are being consumed, resulting in this phenomenon we call haze.
Because of information failure, suppliers of examination papers fail to see the full costs imposed on society and thus, continue to provide examination papers at MPC. The market has thus failed as it has failed to allocate goods where MSC=MSB, instead, the price and quantity of goods exchanged remains at MPC=MSB. In this case, the government can intervene by reducing the quantity of examination papers supplied by using legislation. And legislation is the only method that works because the supply curve of examinations is insensitive to price changes.
The government can impose stricter regulations to ensure that examinations are not supplied excessively, or even propose a total ban on examinations. Using this method, the MPC can fianlly shift leftwards towards the MSC, so that a economically efficient output and priced exchanged can be achived.
Damn, must be post-promo syndrome setting in.
So, mainly, the blog is here for a reason. To put up anything related to mugging, be it fantasy or reality, in school, and outside, over and under. Expect some new posts soon. So, it seems plain for now, but it'll have substance soon.
