Theres no excuse for not knowing what exactly a 'Flash Mob' is. Even old Nora here knows the lowdown on it.
They've been around long enough, first rallied up apparently by some senior editor from Harpers magazine (although I think thats too much credit, forms of it have been around since the sixities), which was organised back in 2003, which by the standards of an earlier post ("Well, I never...") thats almost like 50 years ago.
Wikipedia's (aka Gospel) take on it:
A flash mob (or flashmob)[1] is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.
Essentially the genius is in its manner they're organised...telecommunications, social media or viral emails making it appear very fast and prompt, which makes it similar to a...well, a flash flood I guess, instantaneous and swells a lot of folk in its path. Hard to resist it, if you're caught in one.
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