Robert Munafo's Taxonomy of Pod People
One day I realized that I was a Pod Person in no less than three different ways. For the purposes of this page a Pod Person is someone who retains a significant part of their identity (such as physical appearance) while also acquiring new traits including a powerful motivation and reasonably strong ability to assimilate or convert others. There must also be an opposing group of people that considers them to be a menace and wishes to limit their spread (for the quintessential example, see Red Scare). These requirements are relaxed somewhat if I happen to think it's just really funny (for example, Monty Python fans probably don't have enough enemies to meet these standards).This page is a parody on my own free-association network and was inspired by the question:
If you could be any kind of pod person in the world, what kind of pod person would you choose to be?
To start, pick an X at random: X X X X X. Then, just follow the links and let the pods guide you . . .
abbreviations: RT: related term, WT: wider term, NT: narrower term, SYN: synonym , ANT: antonym . . . more about these
terms:
RT Related Term . . . SYN SYNonym . . . ANT ANTonym
WT Wider Term (also BT, Broader Term, and GT, General Term)
TT Top Term (the widest term of a hierarchy)
NT Narrower Term (also ST, Specific Term)
USE heading deprecated, USE following term instead
UF heading is Used For the following term
SN Scope Note helps explain where or how the word/phrase is used
Aberczombies:
RT: zombies WT: marketing
AMWAY:
WT: multi-level marketing
body snatchers:
WT: modern sci-fi NT: space aliens
RT: Communists
Borg:
WT: modern sci-fi
Broadway fans:
RT: groupies RT: Monty-Python-fans
RT: gays
classical monsters:
NT: vampires WT: fictitious types
NT: werewolves
NT: zombies
RT: modern sci-fi
Coca-Cola:
WT: marketing
Communists:
RT: body snatchers WT: politics
conspiracy theorists:
RT: politics WT: fringe RT: secret groups
Cult-of-Mac: (Apple customers)
WT: marketing RT: iPod people
environmental activists:
RT: liberals RT: Malthusians WT: politics
EST:
WT: self-help groups
fictitious types:
NT: classical monsters RT: real-life types
NT: modern sci-fi
fraternity members:
WT: social groups
Freemasons:
WT: secret groups
fringe:
NT: conspiracy theorists
fundamentalist Christians:
WT: religions RT: Republicans
gays:
RT: liberals RT: Broadway fans
groupies:
RT: Broadway fans
hippies:
RT: liberals WT: liberals
RT: potheads
iPod people:
RT: Cult-of-Mac
liberals:
RT: environmental activists RT: gays RT: hippies WT: politics RT: Republicans
NT: hippies
Luddites:
RT: Malthusians WT: politics
Malthusians:
RT: environmental activists RT: Luddites WT: politics
marketing:
NT: Aberczombies NT: Cult-of-Mac NT: multi-level marketing
NT: Coca-Cola
modern sci-fi:
NT: body snatchers NT: Borg RT: classical monsters WT: fictitious types
Monty-Python-fans:
RT: Broadway fans
Moonies:
WT: religions
multi-level marketing:
NT: AMWAY WT: real-life types
WT: marketing
Nazis:
WT: politics
politics:
NT: Communists RT: conspiracy theorists
NT: environmental activists
NT: Luddites
NT: Malthusians
NT: Nazis
NT: Republicans
NT: liberals
potheads:
RT: hippies
real-life types:
RT: fictitious types NT: social groups
NT: multi-level marketing
NT: religions
religions:
NT: fundamentalist Christians NT: Moonies WT: real-life types
NT: Scientologists
Republicans:
RT: fundamentalist Christians WT: politics
RT: liberals
Scientologists:
WT: religions
secret groups:
NT: Freemasons
RT: conspiracy theorists
self-help groups:
NT: EST
social groups:
WT: real-life types NT: fraternity members
space aliens:
(disguised, as in V) WT: body snatchers
TM Movement:
vampires:
WT: classical monsters RT: werewolves
werewolves:
RT: vampires WT: classical monsters
zombies:
RT: Aberczombies WT: classical monsters
This page was written in the "embarrassingly readable" markup language RHTF, and was last updated on 2011 Dec 05.
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