# Awesome flash mob scene

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886 "2013-10-10T16:42:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886/61 "2013-10-20T20:48:17Z")

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> [@toast\_pakora](#):
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> [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gww9_S4PNV0)…is just perfect and makes me want to move to Copenhagen.

This was just great! I’m using a computer at the library, and people around me, if they see me, must wonder what the tears are for.

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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886/62 "2013-10-23T04:18:06Z")

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Another staged performance with an innocent-bystander audience:

> **[Food Court Musical - Improv Everywhere](https://improveverywhere.com/2008/03/09/food-court-musical/)**
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> We staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall. More

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886/63 "2013-10-23T04:59:17Z")

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I don’t think Mean Mr. Mustard or bidysabba are disparaging the events at all, but rather pointing out that none of the videos linked in this thread are of flash mobs. A [flash mob](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob) is

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> a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse

Sudden, pointless, brief, and gone are the four necessary elements of a flash mob.

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**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886/64 "2013-10-23T06:45:57Z")

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> [@Largo62](#):
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> I’m sorry for both of you.

Why, thank you for your sympathy!

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**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-flash-mob-scene/670886/65 "2013-10-24T17:58:41Z")

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Now, \*\*THAT \*\*is a flashmob!

> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> It’s a bassoon.

> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> Thanks, I guess I never knew what a bassoon was before.

Me, too. I have some sort of mental block about bassoons. They’re just so…\*odd \*looking.

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