Do NOT Think About Doctor Fartproblem

He is a villain, and the new name of love

Have you ever been asked to do something like “do not, under any circumstances, imagine a pink elephant”? I have, and every time I’m challenged like this I fail instantly. As I parse the sentence “do not imagine a pink elephant” I wind up imagining a pink elephant almost immediately. 

For some, this illuminates the basic character of human language - the…