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In London last week I had dinner with a friend at one of the Victorian-Era gentleman’s clubs (now co-ed). In the drawing room was “the Answer Book”, in which any member could write a question for any other member to answer. The book went back almost to the war, and the questions were wide-ranging. Someone [...]
Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
September 28th, 2010
Category: Humour
The announcement of the MacArthur Awards calls to mind an American friend’s story about winning one of these prizes. He was a visiting scholar at Oxford when he got the phone call from MacArthur. Absolutely thrilled, he left his office to go back to where he was living to tell his partner the great news. [...]
August 26th, 2010
Infinite loop, meet one-song shuffle.
April 26th, 2010
Category: Humour
Jim Jones’s joke is grossly offensive: if you’re a Taliban sympathizer. Else, not.
April 8th, 2010
Yes, it’s satire. But on this one, The Onion’s similarity to The New York Times is genuinely disturbing.
February 23rd, 2010
Jokes for the pre-1914 generation.
June 14th, 2009
Category: Humour
“Should Letterman be fired for a joke?”
When the joke is about the sexual morals of a minor girl, yes.
March 27th, 2009
The GOP even gets its windmills wrong.
