And yet they serve as a backdrop for mischief, like the game that Mr. Kneeland and Mr. Wayne devised in which they challenge each other to break the ice with women using the most dreadful pickup lines that they and their friends can come up with, casting themselves as the Chaddiest and Braddiest of Chads and Brads.
A couple of the poems are loosely based on them, but mostly they're just the product of hours spent sitting around, thinking about what habits I find irritating and devising ways in which they could lead to sticky ends.
They hope to open up an industry still dominated by nerds who love nothing more than to devise scenarios in which they get to shoot the fuck out of some aliens with a massive gun and save the world.
They also hired Coach Marc Trestman, fresh off huge successes in the Canadian Football League, to devise an offense in which they hope those players will thrive.
Early in 1999, Nader and his colleagues devised an experiment in which they trained a group of rats to fear a tone.
To help answer that question, the researchers devised an experiment in which they could manipulate a small corner of the Internet: reader comments.
They devised a performance in which they went into one of Yangon's busy outdoor markets, and sold small items — candy, ribbons — for tiny amounts of money.
The researchers devised an experiment in which they put a slippery sheet of acetate in the path of a crab heading toward its burrow.
In exchange for the confidence and skills she hopes to impart ("People have the experience and talent, but many need new tools for a new technological environment") she is asking her course members to devise concrete ways in which they, in turn, can do something in their community: "That way, if I am just one person helping one group, each of them will do something for another group".
The Detroit Pistons devised the "Jordan Rules" in which they relentlessly double teamed Michael Jordan to take the ball out of his hands.
