Social Engineering

Evil Roy Slade · 10-28-2011, 10:19 PM

A few days ago I was reading a travel book, Tim Moore's Continental Drifter. In a small town in the south of France, he notes:

In 1848, the huge bronze statue of Louis XIV on his horse that still stands outside the local McDonald's was saved from a threatening crowd only after someone persuaded them it would be an even more effective insult to replace the royal inscription with one in praise of the sculptor, a local boy. No one seems to know who brokered this unlikely feat of diplomacy -- only in France could a baying mob be prevailed upon to throw down their pitchforks in favour of irony.

Today, Social Engineering arrives and hey presto, there it is -- the Irony technique on page 81. GURPS really can do anything.

10-28-2011, 10:19 PM	#28
Evil Roy Slade Join Date: Oct 2007	Re: Social Engineering A few days ago I was reading a travel book, Tim Moore's Continental Drifter. In a small town in the south of France, he notes: In 1848, the huge bronze statue of Louis XIV on his horse that still stands outside the local McDonald's was saved from a threatening crowd only after someone persuaded them it would be an even more effective insult to replace the royal inscription with one in praise of the sculptor, a local boy. No one seems to know who brokered this unlikely feat of diplomacy -- only in France could a baying mob be prevailed upon to throw down their pitchforks in favour of irony. Today, Social Engineering arrives and hey presto, there it is -- the Irony technique on page 81. GURPS really can do anything.