Remember when people believed in subliminal messages?

[Bearflag70]

Ranchoth is exactly right, as always. Damn, I worship you.

[TimeWinder]

@hajario

If one were to look at the writings of, say, Euclid from thousands of years ago and, for example, one of your OPs, who would one conclude was stupid?

Euclid - for posting in the SDMB in a language almost non of us can read!

[saoirse]

@Jeep's Phoenix

Yes, Bearflag70, they were. There was a high-profile lawsuit against a metal band (Judas Priest?) that was accused of planting subliminal messages encouraging suicide in their lyrics. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of a teenaged boy who had supposedly spent a great deal of time listening to the band’s music with a friend before the two boys attempted suicide by shotgun. The boy whose parents brought the lawsuit had survived the attempt (with an extremely mangled face).

That was the actual lyrics of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution.” Those would be liminal messages.

BTW, that song’s title always put me in the mind of a college professor working a complex chemistry formula on a blackboard. He stops, erases two numbers, writes in two others and shouts “Eureka!” Then he turns and dives out the window.