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Serious satire
"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Thursday, May 17, 2001
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR -I’ve seen two different contestants on two different Australian game shows mistakenly answer “Martin Luther King” rather than Martin Luther” to questions about who lead the Protestant Reformation. -I once enquired about booking a ticket to Lebanon at a travel agency in Melbourne and was told that I needed to show evidence of a visa, as "all countries in Europe require an entry visa". Needless to say, I took my custom elsewhere - they didn’t even know where it was!
IT’S GOOD TO BE KING What do you call a Protestant male monarch? Martin Luther King.
10:32 am
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