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Last week thousands of New Yorkers and others across the globe celebrated the 10th anniversary of Improv Everywhere's 2002 No Pants Subway Ride by hopping on public transport without pants. What can these pantless pranksters teach us about the human mind? Read More
Very cool! :-)
Very nice!!! :-) This is a very cool way to look at coincidences! :-)
Can we say that the drive to explain things is evident even with just ONE pantless rider, that is, people attribute SOME sort of explanation for this event, even if it's in the format of "that's New York". But then, with stronger evidence against 'this one explanation', people need to revise it and that's when the coincidence thing comes into play. Does that make sense? :-) I'm sure in Austin the N of pantless riders would have to be much larger to even trigger the attention -- at which point someone would say: Yeah, this is Austin"... lol
Actually, this picture wasn't
Actually, this picture wasn't taken in NYC , but in Boston. I know, because two of these three are my children.
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Andre: Those are great suggestions, and I agree that even one pantless rider can lead people to seek an explanation (even in Austin, and even where I live, in Berkeley, CA).
Anonymous: Thank you for the correction concerning the photo! I've changed the photo caption.
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