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Thursday, November 8. 2007

You couldn't make this stuff up

Heck, with this sort of insanity, all the Brits will have left is nun jokes. Unlike the whiners and babies, nuns can take a joke.

Remind me. What year was it that Britain was successfully invaded by the alien transexual moonbat body-snatchers?

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 18:33 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Me thinks, USA is only a clip off the Brits.

I can see it now.

Male, big ears, slappped me face upon the road afew times too many.

Ergo, butt of a joke.
#1 Leag on 2007-11-08 19:09 (Reply)
''the casual ease which some people move from finding something offensive to wishing to declare it criminal - and are then able to find factions within government to aid their ambitions - is truly depressing."

Mr. Bean is dead right.
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-11-08 19:21 (Reply)
(ht Belmont)

Look deep into these eyes. hold them for a long while if you can. read the 'head' poem. pray for Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=492460
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-11-08 21:17 (Reply)
the ultimate result will be the banning of jokes of any kind! Pray for anyone who still has a sense of humor. Anyone remember Red Skelton? There was a person who could gently and kindly, and I felt, with great love for humankind, make jokes that made us all laugh at ourselves. Make us see ourselves as flawed but perfectly wonderful and just plain human. I pray for humankind and the death of perspective....and a frigging sense of humor!
#4 mila (Link) on 2007-11-08 21:34 (Reply)
Red Skelton was great. Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Tim Conway, Harvey Corman--on and on. jeez --what happened to all that ? Where did it go ?
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2007-11-08 21:41 (Reply)
we as a culture all got so damned serious! Everything has "meaning"....and we all have forgotten how to laugh at ourselves. so sad.
#4.1.1 mila (Link) on 2007-11-08 21:44 (Reply)
"what happened to all that ?"

That's the core of Blooms book, isn't it? Steyn fiddled with the music a bit but Bloom pointed at the '60's and noted that the beast was no longer slouching toward Bethlehem - he'd stolen a Dodge Hemi, had it wide open and had broken off the brake peddle and tossed it out the window.

Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, the Smothers Brothers, All in the Family, Laugh-In - if you think of them carefully, have an emesis basin to hand. I laughed with every other kid then, as did the majority of parents - who damn well should have known better.
#4.1.2 Rick Ballard (Link) on 2007-11-08 22:29 (Reply)
So true, so true. Ignored were the few lonely voices in the wilderness trying to warn against soft, unconscious subversion of what a culture needs to maintain itself. After Barry Goldwater, there was silence.
#4.1.2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-11-09 00:14 (Reply)
1997.

Don't lose all hope though, we Brits have a tendency to let things go on for a very long time out of misguided politeness but when we've had enough readjustment can be surprisingly swift and extensive.

Looking forward to the day.
#5 Falco (Link) on 2007-11-09 05:22 (Reply)

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