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Anyone who has ever visited a sporting stadium has encountered the wave phenomena that ripples through the huddled masses seated therein.
For many, this is an welcome diversion from the inanity that is occurring before them on the pitch, field, diamond, rink or pit. That the wave can occur relies
on the likelihood that there is a large number of disinterested people, who are attentive enough of their surroundings to participate.
If these initial premises hold true, this is the potential breeding ground for the greatest collective yawn to have ever been created! The Stadium Yawn will have a similar 'yawn epicentre' as that of the wave. A group of stadium yawners attending a match ought to either rehearse a perfectly contagious yawn, or else spent the previous twenty-four hours without sleep.
Just as this group would have instigated a wave in tandem by standing and throwing their arms above their heads; they would persistently yawn from their seats, perhaps incorporating a lazy stretch into the mannerism. Whence successfully communicated, this devastating yawn will spread rapidly and perhaps indefinitely around the continuum.
Yawn Laser
Yawn_20Laser
by ldischler. A classic. Includes reference to Mexican wave at some sort of rounders game. [calum, Jan 14 2008]
Starting a wave
http://www.youtube....watch?v=sbiFd61w_2g
Braniac's take on the wave. [oneoffdave, Jan 14 2008]
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Brilliant! Could the mass-yawn be
initiated using the big television screens
that Americans have at their Superdome
and other events? |
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It's a visual reaction, so it's likely that'd work. However, it is unlikely that medium would send that message. |
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I agree a live person might be more potent
stimulus. On the other hand, people often
seem to yawn in response to yawns on TV.
Even imagining a hippopotamus yawning
can be an adequate trigger. |
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What worries me slightly is that
spontaneous yawning ought to set this
chain reaction off anyway, from time to
time, if it were self-sustaining. |
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Yawning is infectious, so it might be
hard to stop it after it gets going - that
makes it even better.
"Reports are
coming in of dozens of casualties being
taken from today's dismal cup final
suffering from lock-jaw".
Now that
your bake is wide to the wall, stick this
croissant in yer gub! (local vernacular) |
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When instigating a wave, the instigator has to be very persistent to generate a significant 'wave mass' in the originating vicinity for it to spread. This should also apply to yawning. |
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what is wierd is...reading about yawning makes me yawn |
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Made me yawn twice in the thirty or so seconds since I clicked here and started reading. [+] |
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I hate when things emerge unknowingly from my unconscious. |
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From some (not very precise) experiments done on a UK tv show [link] it took seven people to start a mexican wave. I suspect that it will take more to start a yawn wave as people are all facing the same way so a yawn won't have the same visual impact as when people are facing each other. |
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Excellent. It's just a shame that farts aren't similarly contagious. |
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Would the sports teams playing in this stadium collapse into unconsciousness as the collective yawn of 50,000 spectators sucked all the oxygen out of the air? No, I thought not. |
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Also known as the 7th inning stretch... |
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AKA, the seventh inning kvetch, if you take kids to the game? |
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