The Moppet Lists (An Introduction)
April 13, 2009
Remember that off-the-hook idea I was talking about a couple of days ago about making lists? Well, I decided to power through with it. This is an introduction to the experiment which will be known from then on as:
The Moppet Lists (A Social Experiment)
I plagiarized this from the movie The Bucket List (starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) with a few quirky changes. I’ve watched it four times in the last two weeks and have become hopelessly addicted (It has been recently awarded a spot in my Fab Movies Hall of Fame). The concept is more or less the same.
Rules
- I will make lists of the things I plan to do, need to do, want to do, etc.
- In this experiment, nothing has to make perfect sense.
- Also, I am not compelled to follow the list.
- However, it is preferred that I do.
- This is purely recreational. No one (the author and the reader) is allowed to get a hemorrhage over it.
Etymology
- The Bucket List
- Did you know that the word moppet means young child?
- I read The Story of Miss Moppet (by Beatrix Potter, the author who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit) on the internet.
Miss Moppet is a cat trying to catch a mouse. She hits her head on a cupboard and ties a duster in her head. The curious mouse comes near a hurt-looking Miss Moppet. But apparently, that was all a ruse. Miss Moppet wraps the duster over the mouse and tosses it like a ball. But there is a hole in the duster! The mouse wriggles its way free, and does a jig on top of the cupboard.
(I don’t know how to explain to you the relevance of this story. In fact, I think it’s best we not think about it at all)
Stay tuned.
