2006-08-24 03:44:16 · 12 answers · asked by Buzzard 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Wish I could report Jibba-Jabba... for being excellent! Don't make me throw you!
2006-08-24 03:48:11 · update #1
Kipple is a word coined by the remarkable science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It refers to the sinister type of rubbish which simply builds up without any human intervention. Eventually, one day, the entire world will have moved to a state of kipplization. Castle Gormenghast is doing nothing to help this.
2006-08-24 03:46:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kipple is a term coined by science fiction author Philip K. Dick in the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. It refers to unwanted or useless junk that tends to reproduce itself. Some of Dick's descriptions of it suggest an analogy to entropy. According to two characters from the book, John Isidore stated that the first law of "kipple" is that "kipple" drives out "nonkipple"; Buster Friendly liked to declare, "Earth would die under a layer — not of radioactive dust — but of kipple." In fact, an area in Blade Runner's Los Angeles has an industrial sector so full of kipple that the neighborhood is simply referred to as the "Kipple".
2006-08-24 10:47:18 · answer #2 · answered by Firesoul 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only for adult readers: I would assume the word kipple came as a result of the answer a young man gave when asked 'Do you like Kipling?' which was: 'I don't know, I've never kippled.' Rudyard, of course.
2006-08-24 14:31:43 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum
2006-08-24 10:47:36 · answer #4 · answered by lady_di_ar125 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Kippers nipple
2006-08-24 11:00:25 · answer #5 · answered by Cocktail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a teat on a smoked herring.
Are you sure its not kibble you're after.
2006-08-24 10:48:49 · answer #6 · answered by charlie r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From "Do androids dream..."? Basically, junk.
2006-08-24 10:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by mutterhals 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kipple? where did that come from?
hee hee hee...
2006-08-24 10:49:55 · answer #8 · answered by Lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a sniglet!
2006-08-24 11:29:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
dry dog food :)
2006-08-24 10:49:17 · answer #10 · answered by Garf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋