Resistentialism.

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This is my new favorite thing, ganked from AWordADay mail this morning: the theory that inanimate objects demonstrate hostile behavior toward us. To wit:

"Clark-Trimble, a leading Cambridge psychologist, came to the conclusion that low human dynamics in the early morning could not sufficiently explain the apparent hostility of Things at the breakfast table - the way honey gets between the fingers, the unfoldability of news-papers, etc..."

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Cool! I just looked up the full article "Report on Resistentialism" and it can be found here.

Very dry and academic, but very funny in parts.