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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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