The Grobius and Fishe Academy of Arts and Imbecility

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The Academy was an inspiration of Grobius Shortling's when he spotted an imaginary fairy castle alongside the freeway near Piscataway NJ. For some reason, this stuck in his mind, even though he was not sure if he had really seen it or not (drunk, in fact, if you really want to know). But he felt a need to establish an institution to disseminate useless but fascinating knowledge and propagate it into the minds of the silly and uneducated youth of today. Through his Internet Webmasters, Cthulhu & Nosferatu, he was able to substantiate this castle and incarnate it as THE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND IMBECILITY. Field of dreams come true in stone and turrets.

This is now the premier site on the World Wide Web for imbecilic subject matters (if you discount the other score or so of similar sites that Grobius discovered on the Internet after the fact).

Why is Fishe involved? Well, he is a long-time drinking buddy, and dyslexic and color-blind to boot, but his sense of humor is even more warped than Grobius's. Besides, he has web space that the Academy can store this crap on -- the AOL screen names under Grobius are already chock-a-block full with other web pages.

Anyway, the point of the Academy is to study the meanings behind such apparently trivial matters as the fact (true) that hot dogs are sold in packs of 10 but buns for them only come in packages of 6 or 8, that one parks in a driveway but drives on a parkway, that Princess Diana would have looked like Mother Teresa if she had lived long enough. Such matters are surely worthy of exploration in an academic environment, with no drinking rules or any other such nonsense.

Here follows a tour of our establishment, in case you find the home page too massive and intimidating. Just click HERE to continue on the tour. (The web pages, except for the first one, which contains a picture of the Academy [60kb], are all very small and browser-friendly, not that we can make the same claim for some of the links from them.)

It is our hope that you will find this site worth revisiting -- you are even invited to contribute to it. This introductory page was purposely designed to be unappealing, because you need to be serious to appreciate our total lack of serious purpose.

Note that this web site was moved from diverse hosts to Geocities in August 1998, which involved some consolidation and other changes. Rather than try to re-edit the whole thing, I just concentrated on fixing all the links and images. As in a much reconstructed old house, there will be some extra walls and blind passages that don't necessarily make full sense; but that's as it should be.

Grobius Shortling

By the way, there are a lot of quotations from one Gomer the Greek. If you want to know more about him, click here.