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A character assigned a tedious or unpleasant task cons others into helping him. May be accomplished by means of Reverse Psychology, or a Bavarian Fire Drill, or by making a Chain of Deals, or something else. Many Fence Painting recruiters depend on convincing victims that their potentially lethal painting is honorable, noble, moral, what God would want them to do, the only true way To Be a Master... Compare Stone Soup, Wax On, Wax Off. Examples of Fence Painting include:

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  • A character assigned a tedious or unpleasant task cons others into helping him. May be accomplished by means of Reverse Psychology, or a Bavarian Fire Drill, or by making a Chain of Deals, or something else. Many Fence Painting recruiters depend on convincing victims that their potentially lethal painting is honorable, noble, moral, what God would want them to do, the only true way To Be a Master... Compare Stone Soup, Wax On, Wax Off. Examples of Fence Painting include:
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  • A character assigned a tedious or unpleasant task cons others into helping him. May be accomplished by means of Reverse Psychology, or a Bavarian Fire Drill, or by making a Chain of Deals, or something else. Many Fence Painting recruiters depend on convincing victims that their potentially lethal painting is honorable, noble, moral, what God would want them to do, the only true way To Be a Master... Notable Fence Painting activities include being in a Mad Scientist's experiment, any Deal with the Devil or joining a war against a country you didn't even know existed. Or, you know, painting fences. Based on the famous whitewashing scene in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, where Tom not only tricks the local kids into painting a fence for him, but he convinces some of them to pay him for the honor. This makes it Older Than Radio. Compare Stone Soup, Wax On, Wax Off. Examples of Fence Painting include:
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