Jackass Koostas: Klass: Origins The show developed from Big Brother Magazine, a skateboarding-related humor magazine that Jeff Tremaine, Dave Carnie, Rick Kosick and Chris Pontius all worked for, and featured regular contributions from Johnny Knoxville, Tyler Newton and Dave England, among others. The concept of Jackass dates back to 1999 when struggling-actor-turned-writer Johnny Knoxville birthed the idea to test different self defense devices on himself as the basis for an article. He pitched the idea to a couple of magazines and was turned down until meeting with Jeff Tremaine of Big Brother
tion, based on the phenomenon of malapropism. · An important spinoff from and competitor of truth-theoretic seman- tics is "Game-Theoretic" semantics, developed by Jaakko Hintikka (1976, 1979). I am unsure how far Hintikka's program competes with truth-theoretic semantics rather than being a variant of it. The basic papers on GTS are collected in Saarinen (1979). · Radford (1997), Culicover (1997), Sag and Wasow (1999), Carnie (2001), and Lasnik and Uriagereka (2005) are excellent introductions to contemporary syntactic theory; see also Hornstein (1995). Larson and Segal (1995) expound the convergence of semantics with contem- porary syntax from the viewpoint of theoretical linguistics. 10 Truth-Condition Theories: possible worlds and intensional semantics Overview Kripkean possible worlds (as presented in chapter 4) afford an alternative
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