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reply to wonko3fc

Re: Does England Really Suck more than America?

I wasn't aware that there was any evidence of original humor originating from the USA given the tightly constrained confines within what passes for 'satire' and the comprehensive absence of Irony.

NB: Watch Tzale come back at me now and prove me right

Oh, sir! Now 'elf' is surely some sort of elf, but 'safely', I'm fairly certain must be some sort of troll.

After only six weeks' absence, I can't recall his name (I really hate that), but you've got at least one satirist in one of the major daily rags who also draws. Still, I've never seen the representation of elf and safely that I keep hoping for.

Still, you have a point here. With the exception of the Daily Show (Jon Stewart), the Colbert Report, and the occasional zinger from Olbermann on Countdown, we're long past the heyday of satire and irony here in the US (too complex for most of us these days, I suspect). We've got no new Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Tim Lehrer and TW3 is, alas, long gone. More's the pity. I think George Carlin tries, but he's getting on a bit these days. The snappy, clever dialog from films of the 30s and 40s is also long gone. Christ, (pardon my French), we don't even have a Pubmaster!
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Joseph V. Morris

"Elf & Safely" very good like "Darby & Joan" no doubt?

Oh Wikipedia is busy off the back of these threads isn't it? Bung in another couple of Blades Dave, DSLReports is active again....

Addendum: I just realised Blades are a bit old fasioned these days...Esp for this forum... Dave! Scrub the blades, spin up a couple of additional VM's mate!

Oh, quit pushing me, willya?

The only reason I understood nemo's reference to 'Cockney rhyming slang' was due to a Dick Francis novel that I must have first read about 20 years ago! (I tend to re-read them fairly often, along with Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiel Hammett.)

The only way I'll ever pick up on most of this stuff is if the Home Office gets off my butt and lets me visit my wife in England regularly with no hassle (something that does not appear to currently be on their agenda, as long as they can collect some more revenues for allowing me this 'privilege'.)
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Joseph V. Morris

reply to wonko3fc

reply to dave
Too funny! Another stunning example of thee land of the free...

reply to dave
If I may correct you, dave, it's actually an executive order signed by the current President after talking to God one night. The order was written by Alberto Gonzales and incorporated several refinements suggested by Vice-President Cheney.

Yes, it's true that there is an amazing similarity in God's voice and that of the Vice President but that simply explains why the President values everything said by the V. P.

Ha, ha . . . only kidding.
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Joseph V. Morris

Laura Bush: "We have the weekend free darling, what would you like to do?"
George Bush: "I'm not sure. Let's think..."
Laura Bush: "No, let's do something that you can do too."
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Or, as my older brother was fond of saying, "It's all in the wrist!" Not being particularly fond of tennis in the first place, I never did grasp his point. (As it were and so to speak.)
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Regards,
Joseph V. Morris

Well, to be perfectly frank, . . .

(Don't you hate that phrase? And just who is Perfectly Frank anyway? I mean, really . . . Okay, I've got Freeborn John down now, but Perfectly Frank, I dunno.)

At any rate, I only feel able to comment on your query for myself.

Yes.
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Joseph V. Morris