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Procrastination is the putting off of an unpleasant task until the last minute. It's [[Truth in Television|quite common]]. Hell, [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|if you are reading this, you probably are procrastinating right now]]. The Ridiculous Procrastinator is someone—often [[Brilliant but Lazy|someone very capable]]—who does this to such ridiculous extremes that it is almost funny. He will put off writing a 10,000-word paper until the night before it is due, and once he sits down to start it, he will find half a million petty tasks that do not need to be done to avoid writing that paper. Often, he will realize that [[We Could Have Avoided All This|he could have avoided all of this]], as he finds that the assignment practically writes itself once he gets going.
 
Some common tactics of the Ridiculous Procrastinator include sharpening pencils, constantly checking email, cleaning, feeding the pets, talking on the phone (bonus points if they talk about the task), reading [[TV Tropes (Wiki)|TV Tropes]] (bonus bonus points if they're reading this page) and basically anything that they can do to avoid doing what they have to do.
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... bah, we'll add them later we got time, you wanna shoot some hoops or get something to eat?
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Another T-shirt reads "Top Ten Reasons I Procrastinate: 1) " [[Don't Explain the Joke|'Cause it never finishes the list]].
* An article by [[Terry Pratchett]], describing how he goes about writing a novel, says that in the old days all writers could do that counted as "work" but wasn't actually writing was change the typewriter ribbons and clean the "e" with a pin. In the computer age, however, you can spend hours writing macros that would speed up your writing by a couple of minutes. And if you get bored with that, you can read anything that looks interesting, which is called "research".
* [[Douglas Adams]]: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by". The reason the first ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy|Hitchhiker's]]'' book ends where it does is because at that point his editor lost patience with all the missed deadlines and told him to just finish the page he was on. According to ''The Salmon of Doubt'', he once took an impromptu trip to Australia to comparatively test-drive a new underwater vehicle and a sting ray for an article so that he could procrastinate on another one. Similarly, he once hiked up Mt. Kilimanjaro--spending a part of a trip in a rhino suit--for similar purposes (though that was also for charity.) During the writing of ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Franchise)/Mostly Harmless|Mostly Harmless]]'' he was locked in his hotel room by his editor and was only allowed out for the occasional walk.
* [[Frank Frazetta]] did almost all of his work within a day of their deadlines. While the finished product was always top-notch, it would take him several days to recover from exhaustion.
 
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