5 Questions frequently asked about Kipple

What is kipple?

This is easiest to answer question (that's why I'm doing it first). Kipple is stuff. Stuff like ring pulls and run out biros and those strange little lids they've started putting on chocolate milk bottles.

More thoroughly:-

Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more. - I see.

Some kipple yesterday.
(Today there was twice as much).

- There's the First Law of Kipple, "Kipple drives out non kipple." Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple. -So it has taken over completely. Now I understand. - Your place, here, this apartment you've picked - it's too kipple-ized to live in. We can roll the kipple-factor back; we can do like I said, raid the other apartments. But - - But what? - We can't win. - Why not? - No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and non kipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization. Except of course for the upward climb of Wilber Mercer.

J.R.Isidore explaining kipple to Pris
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Where is kipple?

Kipple is, more or less, everywhere. But kipple is most frequently found at the bottom of large piles of kipple.

Why is kipple?

AFTER THE ADVENT OF THE CURSE OF GREYFACE, fnord people tried harder than ever to keep the space about them ordered and unchaotic. This was un-natural and the few followers of Eris went to their leader and said unto him: Lord Boing, all around us is order. Chaos is slipping away from us, what must we do?

Lord Boing replied: will you lot just PISS OFF, and leave me alone. I don't know who you are and MY NAME IS NOT BOING!

Even with this sage advice the followers were still vexed and did worry muchly. And although they fought sanity and stability wherever they saw it, heard it and, on one memorable occasion, smoked it, they were now far outnumbered. In desperation they sought their leader.

The battle goes poorly, my Lord Boing. What must we do? quoth they and he, in his wisdom, did say My name's not frigging Boing, fnord DOG KILL! and the followers did leave.

But the next morning upon awakening, Lord Boing left his bed and place his feet on the floor. When he did so he cut his foot on a small shiney screw that had appeared on his floor during the night.

This was the first appearance of kipple in the world - the goddess sent her sacred screw to Lord Boing. Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia.

When is Kipple?

MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. Kipple is a direct result of mankinds attempts to impose order and so has risen in recent years at a joyous rate!

How is kipple?

We're not one hundred percent sure. We asked Eris but she just smiled and gave us a Frank Zappa LP.