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Serious satire
"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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-Jane Perrone, The Guardian
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Monday, March 29, 2004
IRISH JOKE Irish authorities have banned smoking in pubs. Could of fooled me – I went to an Irish pub (Paddy's Irish pub in downtown Beirut) and loads of people were smoking (including me). By the way, we won last nights pub quiz again (third week in a row). I'll never go hungry on a Sunday - the prize is dinner for the winning team. A practical prize but there’s nothing like a tactile prize that you can carry home like a trophy of your victory. Such prizes at other (now defunct) quizzes were bottles of alcohol (albeit cheap alcohol such as ‘’cooking vodka’’ as a team-mate of mine called it) and promotional t-shirts, lighters, etc. If I had have drunk all the alcohol I won at quizzes over the years I’d probably be dead by now. I gave most of it away – including some I gave to a Sr Lankan maid who was going back home to visit (quite useful because her husband’s an alcoholic).
RENATOOBEIDSWORLD'S VERY OWN ATTEMPT AT AN IRISH JOKE Why did the Irishman go to fight in Cyprus? Give up? Because he wanted a united island. Get it? Renatoobeidsworld's patented JokeXplainer. Island sounds like Ireland and the Irishman (whose countrymen, according the stereotype, aren’t renowned for their intelligence) thought he was going there to fight to unite Ireland rather than that divided island.
1:16 pm
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