Before the internet was filled with snitches, members of the band Tool trolled their fans in their early years with a long-running joke about their love of Lachrymology. This is an excerpt from a European music mag:

It was Jones who took the initiative at the end of 1989, after

reading the book 'A Joyful Guide To Lachrymology' by amateur-

philosopher Ronald P. Vincent. This obscure book out of 1949, also

described as 'a study of crying', is written in the point of view that

there is no necessity to think or create without pain. Until 1960,

there was a sect in L.A., who embraced this point of view. And in 1988

Adam Jones met, the lonely man, Vincent, prior to his death. Two years

later Jones had thoroughly read and embraced 'A Joyful Guide To

Lachrymology'.

Edit: Here's a Redditor falling for it in 2019 lol https://old.reddit.com/r/ToolBand/comments/cywqie/what_the_hell_is_lachrymology

!nonchuds !chuds

We makin it out of the hood with this one holy shit how is this slampig a professional musician

srsly

@ticktocktrain

@transb-word

Thoughts?