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Colin Percival
colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 1 21:53:29 PST 2004
At 05:36 02/01/2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 15:25:22 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote:
> > I deleted everything by Rush Limbaugh. That guy just can't do humour. It
> > doesn't work as satire, or even parody. It's just awful.
> > Would anybody object if I commited this one?
>
>I think the answer would have to be "yes". Though I personally agree
>with you about its usefulness, the whole thing about the potentially
>offensive fortunes is, of course, that they might offend. Somebody
>else might like them. I don't think that anybody should play censor
>here.
I don't think the problem here is that they are potentially
offensive... the problem is that they're simply *not funny*. There's
also the problem that the 35 quotes were intended to be read in
sequence, so fortune(1) is a very lossy way of reading them.
But maybe American humour is too subtle for this Oxonian to
understand...
Colin Percival
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