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The actual origins of the Annual Adolph Eichmann's Evil Cake Contest
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are probably better off lost in the hall-closet of history, but the
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legend remains.
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The contest was born out of a student paper on Hannah Arendt which was
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submitted as an assignment in The Schoolhouse (a writing program).
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The only extant fragment of that immortal paper is part of its final
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sentence: "...but the icing on Adolph Eichmann's evil cake was..."
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which spawned a tradition of writing unknown to man before its time,
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and which has been reverently memorialized by an annual event.
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Excerpts from this year's contest entries rate no more introduction:
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"In short, Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which
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the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic
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ooze."
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"The Syracusans defeated the Athenians on their own turf, the sea."
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"Like raisins in a bread pudding, the moments lie within the body
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of Henry."
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"As a domestic animal, Othello is a child."
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"Morality is ubiquitous in everything that is good or bad."
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"Why should someone be penalized because he has studied diligently and
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deciduously in high school."
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"`Tyranny of the majority' as a dangerous and omnipotent force is
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still a dangerous issue - we see it manifest itself in our culture in
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such things as florescent biker shorts and Motley Crue."
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"In the upcoming times of cutbacks, the defense industry can turn to
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making stimulation devices."
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"Today, the world is teetering on the brink of nuclear Agamemnon."
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"But when the chips are down, women hold the reins."
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