Freaks The compilers of this volume hav...

Freaks
The compilers of this volume have undertaken a bold task in defining the various types and accompanying characteristics of Freaks. In doing so a definition of Freaks must be determined in order to establish the veracity of such a presumptuous thesis, all in direct compliance with the appeasement of critics of the present volume. Freaks consist of various types and subcategories: namely Freaks of the Freak Movement of the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, the subsequent monikering of analog telephone tamperers and early digital computer hackers under the alternate portmantueau-ish spelling Phreakers (the portmanteau it should be briefly noted has characteristics similar to Voltron and various Autobot and Decepticon combined Transformers, in that the portmanteau consists of combined words. But we digress), and later Freaks are associated with the 1970s proliferation of the pornographic industry due to Rick James’s gold record-selling hit “Superfreak.” Subsequently, the use of Freak has been attributed to humans with unusual lifestyle, stylistic, and body-altering choices. Hence, “Freak” has been attributed to those of the Pierced and Tattooed, to those of dyed and dreadlocked hair (note the overlapping), and of those bearing platformed shoes. In recent years Freak has been used in jocular circles to refer to one’s friends and loved-ones, as in, You’re such a freak. As such, Freak can be defined as nearly any and all humans as they exist on Earth.