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What is Paugh?
The intent of this website it so educate the populous on the existence of paugh, illustrate how to identify paugh, and if you are paugh, show you how to embrace it.
"Paugh" was first discovered during a viewing of the movie "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Steve Martin's "Ruprecht" character helped form the original inspiration for Paugh as we know it today. It was only discussed in small circles until 2000 when Josh Teague publicly imitated Ruprecht and experienced paugh first hand. He mentally documented the experience though was not fully able to develop a full understanding of paugh by himself. In 2003 Josh presented his findings to his fellow researchers of the world Michael R. Nelson and William H. Mather. Over the next three years these great minds developed a greater understanding of the phenomenon of paugh and began documenting it visually. In January of 2005, paugh went to the public in the form of this website. Since then, Mike, Josh, and Will have conscripted the noble paugh theologians Leon O. Fowler, Jeremy Z. Van Hill, and Brett Q. Gilbert to help build to the paugh research database. This website is a product of their labor, finding, illustrating, and sometimes creating paugh for the greater good of the world. May god bless their work.
7 comments:
The paugh onslaught as soon as the title screen goes away is almost unbearable.
From a friend of mine, regarding this video:
this caused such an intense, overwhelming paugh-related response in me that I could barely believe it was happening. I'm curious what your analysis of the paugh elements of the video are. It almost seemed like a different feeling in a genus of which paugh is a species, because it felt kind of different. Though I was prostrate on the floor for a few seconds.
My fulfillment of his request:
First off, I love the thought of a "Senior Church." I think it is definitely paugh, and that it's probably more accurate to call paugh the genus rather than the species, since it is so diverse. Country music's sort of singing-along-with-breathing drawl contributes to this instance of paugh. The hat's downward tendency is an ingredient, and overalls. The prerecorded backing track coupled with the way he always sort of looks down and sways while the introductions play is huge. The (probably fake) plant. Gold tablecloths and that sort of dark gold/ochre in general make an impact. Audience participation or lack thereof, and his failed attempts to get them involved help. The Jesus theme may be a mere epiphenomenon of paugh, and not causally connected, but I am inclined to posit at least a weak causal connection, as they so frequently coincide. Sudden camera angle changes and occasional rough handling of the camera harkens back to the "It's Prophesied" fellow. 90% of the audience is bluehaired ladies, downward in cheek, and mostly immobile. There is what appears to be a kitchen visible behind Bill at 11:40, e.g. There are one or two instances of wonderfully soft and intrusive text on the screen. Heck, even the name "Bill" has its leanings.
Well done, Paughfan. My favorite quote from you: "90% of the audience is bluehaired ladies, downward in cheek, and mostly immobile." Beautiful.
Truly, church fellowship halls are epicenters of paugh. While paugh is certainly no perjorative, Jesus himself is decidedly not paugh. It truly is remarkable that places dedicated to his worship and service are so often paugh. Perhaps 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 sheds a little light on this oddity:
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
From the same friend. He asks a fine question, and I am not sure if we have ever addressed it. He should offer his insights and queries here himself, but, until then, may he be our muse:
I loved the response that lee made to your comment. Raises, I think, a provocative question. We can intuit a verse, 1 Corinthians 27b, likely lost in translation some point long before the KJV and subsequent English versions:
"...God chose the paugh in the world to shame the (?)"
What is the opposite of paugh?
Good question! Brett, what do you think?
...and who is this friend!? Is there a Paughfan903?
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