Rorschach Test

[msmolinski21]

Does anyone know the significance of the title of the song "Rorschach Test"?

[HoboFactory]

It's the ink-blot test the psychiatrists give you. You look at the blob of ink and tell them what you see. There's no actual way to fail it though.

[Maverick]

umm... wrong again hobo... I'll tell you how u fail it... you fail it if "mother tells you to be something" and then you're afraid..... okay, smart ass..

 

moving on.... in actuality it can be failed if u don't respond to it? right?

[msmolinski21]

yes - then you're insane. and you go somewhere else for treatment.

[HoboFactory]

Well I meant by ordinary test pass/fail means you can't actually fail. From what I'm told there's no right or wrong answer for the questions.

[msmolinski21]

yea yea. i understand

[HoboFactory]

Now what I'd like to know is what the hell does "dimed" mean? He says it in "Sort Of A Protest Song" I always wondered about that.

[Sparq]

I always figured it had something to do with a dime bag (drug reference) though that doesn't really seem like Matt...

[Crusader]

I think it means intoxicated/drunk or possibly dead... since they put dimes over corpses's eyes.

 

"I see me killing you with a rather large knife."

"That one too. This time with an ink blot."

"Yep, killed you again but with my car this time."

[Maverick]

hmm, I thought dimes meant high on drugs (either crack or pot)...... just my thought.... answer for us Kat!

[THE MAN]

Im pretty sure that when he says "dimed" hes refering to everyone having been sold off for a price. some people use the expression to say things like "oh, that clock was dimed at $50" or anything like that. In this case matt used it to refer to society. Classic Matt.

 

 

And you can fail the rorschach test by responding to what it looks like as "Me. having sex with your mother!" every time.

[Sparq]

And then they give you the juice for being uncooperative.

[Maverick]

WTF kind of hypothesis was that THE MAN. You are clearly dimed (aka high on drugs) to come up with that reponse....

 

Lol, you like how I threw that in... I know, I'm proud of myself...

 

Anyways, clearly I live to prove THE MAN wrong... so he can sod off now.

[Crusader]

I think THE MAN is right. Or maybe he's talking about society not giving a damn.

[HoboFactory]

The only thing I know that comes close to it is the expression, "nickel and dimed to death" ...but I'm pretty sure that's not it.

[Maverick]

I'm telling you, THE MAN is not right.... when was the last time THE MAN was right... my point exactly.... NEVER.... therefore you better bloody well listen to me. .... (sry THE MAN... the truth can hurt...) lol.

[THE MAN]

Well one time I took the pepsi challange, and i guessed the one on the left was coke, and it was! so in your face!

 

*dances in celebration*

[Crusader]

I told them the Coke tasted better so they cut me.

[THE MAN]

Next time I see the challange, im going to taste both, then drink some Barq's rootbeer, then say the Barq's is best. for it clearly is.

[HoboFactory]

Also... who is the Mrs. Smith of "So Long Mrs. Smith" ??

[THE MAN]

Maybe just a generic name he used. Doesnt have to really mean anything. "well its either so long mrs.smith or so long mrs.Fletchenstein......I like the 1st one". Who knows, how it came about.

[HoboFactory]

But with the going down to Edison and the having to go away in spring parts, sort of makes it seem like he's referring to some specific series of events that actually happened to him at some point.

[Moonlight_Graham]

"Failing the Rorschach Test" is one of my fav song titles by Matt. so cool.

 

Also, i think "So Long Mrs. Smith" is some sort of story about school, and leaving a BS school. Mrs. Smith is a teacher, and Edison is another school that he's going to go to after when he leaves. and yes i believe Mrs. Smith is just a generic name.

Edited October 30, 2004 by Moonlight_Graham

[ToadMan]

They don't use the Rorschach Test anymore. The original Rorschach test allowed the subjects an infinite period of time to responded, and the ability to change there answers. The new version (the Stanford-Berkley Rorschach test I believe, but don't quote me) standardizes the time frames and number of responses as to place a measure of control on the test.

 

I tried a couple of slang dictionaries for "dimed" but could find nothing. I must have something to being disconnected (given it's context).

 

Peace

[Maverick]

Yah, I thought that "So Long Mrs.Smith" was about him leaving his home town or something... I thought I read that somewhere too. Don't know... but it's definitly a generic term.