a real one! My friend Ed is an escapologist who happens to work for BBC Parliament by day. He was going to be presenting live yesterday - which is not his usual role - so he noted it in his facebook update. This ran into a long thread where people pretended to misunderstand what he was up to and he launched his "manifesto". It related to public regulation of polite behaviour. He decided that people who cut in lines were the first culprits, and the punishment would be a "clip round the earhole" from any bystander who wished to intervene. Soon the thread evolved, and people were chipping in with other crimes that could be considered "clippable", following his initial use of the phrase.
(Ed's escapologist persona is a Victorian Era gentleman adventurer - hence both the obsession with politeness and the nature of the punishment chosen.
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