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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 06:15 PM
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Humour is a very personal thing in a way - even though much of it is enjoyment
is widely shared. Consequently, you can tell a joke and there may be something about it that the person you're telling it to doesn't find that funny, as funny as you do; and, of course, vice versa.

I was thinking about that classic article by the Onion, just before (or was it just after?) the Supreme Court's presidential selection, and realised that I could no longer find the article in the least bit humorous any more. It was all too close to the mark. After enjoying it, as I did at the time reading it to others, I am now like the person it's being recounted to, who,

I suppose that is what happens when a script which a particularly outrageous comedian writes, is overtaken by the all too real, indeed, realised facts, and actually could even serve at some future date as source material for a historical text book. Notwithstanding that "truth is stranger than fiction" is a truism we are all familiar with, I wonder if that has ever happened before anywhere in the world at any time in human history. I mean to that extent.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 06:49 PM
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1. This will go along with humor
Independence day is playing on AMC and bush's fantasy is playing out...Jeff Pullem (President) is going up in the airplane with a flight suit on. And at the end Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith stride into Area 51 near the end in their "flight suits". Wonder if this was the picture rove was watching when he got the idea to try to dress bush up as a hero.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 04:48 PM
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2. Yes, I wonder.
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