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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Nov 2005.
Re: [PIC] Paris Riots

Re: [PIC] Paris Riots

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Iconoclast wrote the following -._
> Perhaps I should've been more specific. I was talking about cerebral comedy,
> like a stand up act, not slapstick. It's really really hard to fuck up
> slapstick. As for The Simpsons and South Park, they're constantly breaking
> new ground and coming up with new ways to amuse. They do more than repeat
> someone else's joke for the umpteenth time. I wouldn't consider either one
> of them played out. 

I didn't say anything about them being played out.  I was, to use SP
as an example, thinking the deaths of Kenny.  Everyone sees them
coming and everyone still laughs.  You were every explicit in that
you /never/ find a joke you can see coming to be funny.

> Common sense can be hard to come by if you're raised to believe that a magic
> man in the sky created you out of dust and is watching everything you do,
> every minute of every day. Don't even get me started on communion or the
> trinity. 

This is alt.ascii-art and as such all things are up for grabs but I
beg of you please don't taint this group with Catholicism[0].  Even Tran
stays away from that one.

[0] The worship of Cathol

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