If you had to organize a parade, the theme would be:

I take attendance by having students answer a question.

If you had to organize a parade, the theme would be:

• trans pride
• colors
• running
• birds
• women in STEM!
• [name of another student in the class]
• birds
• gumby
• SPOOKY
• Poros
• elephants
• Gudetama
• all of the above

Some people chose things which already have parades:

• Thanksgiving 
• pride
• parade-themed
• sports
• parades
• mummers

And a lot of students were thinking about food:

• buttered toast
• coffee
• tacos
• szezhuan [sic] sauce
• instant noodles
• gummy animals
• cookies
• seafood
• cuisine
• sushi
• elephants
• sandwiches
• food

I'd like to see an "existentialism"-themed parade, but... maybe it would take place at night? I don't know enough about existentialism to interpret it through the weird cultural lens of "theme of a parade", but this sounds like the setup to a joke over at Existential Comics.

This post dedicated to the future students who make a useless-blog-themed parade.


This post's theme word is mise en abyme (n), "self-reflection in a literary work, work of art, etc." e.g. a play within a play, a dream within a dream... The hyperlinks on the mise-en-abyme post were infuriatingly both nested and circular.