MIT "No Knife" hack
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Does anyone know the hack of No Knife? Over in the lobby — just off the lobby between the elevators in Building 10 — there's a display place, and they have artworks displayed in there, traveling shows. They had a bunch of sculptures going on, this is about 20, 25 years ago. The students found a little corner in there that wasn't as occupied with sculptures. They took a trash can — the big deep square gray ones — turned it upside down, went over to the student center, got a cafeteria tray, and they got a glass, a plate, a fork, and a spoon, and they put it on there like it was a place setting. They had a nice little sign above there that entitled it "No Knife" because there was no knife. And it had a description of the existentialism of not having something sharp, if you've ever been to some of these artwork things. It was very humorous, I thought. The author may actually have been different artists, so no one could get offended, I don't know, but I always thought No Knife was a pretty clever thing. MIT humor is a little different.