Inspired? Lunacy? Inspired lunacy? You decide.
Basically, a group of people (the Flash Mob) plan to gather together for inexplicable reasons at a certain place and time just for the purpose of... for the purpose of... well, there's really no purpose. And therein lies the appeal.
Imagine. You are shopping at Best Buy, looking for a the new Norah Jones CD (is there one yet?). You are minding your own business. Suddenly, and without warning (thus, the element of surprise), a group of 300 people enter the store and begin singing "Don't know why". Certainly, all attention is drawn to this "mob" that is serenading the staff and customers. Sixty seconds later, all 300 begin hopping on one leg. After 20 seconds of this silliness, they all applaud for ten seconds, and then leave the store in an orderly fashion.
Ridiculous, right? Highly implausible. Stuff that happens only in hokey movie comedy/musicals.
Flash mobs: a new social phenomenon? Read on, my friend.
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September 10, 2006 02:42 PM
When o when is another flash mob going to occur in Savannah?