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I believe strongly in the distasteful effect of "kipple", the crap that tends to accumulate on a Web site as it ossifies.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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I believe strongly in the distasteful effect of "kipple", the crap that tends to accumulate on a Web site as it ossifies.
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The transformation of writerly trash, junk, kipple, into high-concept art is something that many of us have done as readers at one time or another, facing these kinds of books, haven't we?
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000) Adam Roberts 2010
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It's All Too Much is a terrific book that inverts the typical approach to dealing with existential kipple.
Boing Boing 2008
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The cities of Neuromancer were crumbling into a kipple of obsolete technology, litter and grime.
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I like that the kipple doesn't stay put inside the room and leaps out onto the floor instead.
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I was carrying something like the twenty-third dustpan of kipple to the Dumpster out back when I decided for sure that unless, or until, I could reverse my amnesia with a strategic headbump, I was going to set up camp in the alley behind the El Dungeon.
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I straightened up some yesterday, so it's not disgusting, but there's kipple absolutely everywhere.
ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009
bkerr commented on the word kipple
And its billjoy form, buckyjunk.
December 16, 2006
victoriapl commented on the word kipple
"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When no one's around, kipple reproduces itself."
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
December 3, 2007
catspringer commented on the word kipple
As described by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, "kipple" is the seemingly useless bric-a-brac that piles up around us daily. And when not watched carefully, it propagates!
March 2, 2009
bilby commented on the word kipple
Do you like kippling?
March 2, 2009
garyth123 commented on the word kipple
I prefer him to Burns.
March 2, 2009
rolig commented on the word kipple
Cat, you apparently didn't read VictoriaPL's citation from about 1 year ago. No need to repeat comments. By the way, do you like kippling? What about browning?
March 2, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word kipple
I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled.
March 2, 2009
rolig commented on the word kipple
Ah, but you will one day. We all will.
March 2, 2009
capt.flint commented on the word kipple
This word was invented by Philip K. Dick and is one of my favourite words. The word is used to describe the useless objects that seem to reproduce when you turn your back on them.
November 3, 2009
dontcry commented on the word kipple
Such as....?
November 4, 2009
janejetson commented on the word kipple
a good word for hamster chow.
April 11, 2010
oroboros commented on the word kipple
Kipple and Things : How To Hoard and How Not To Mean.
August 2, 2011