“If you’re to die, we’re here to make sure you’re prepared.”

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1. Churchill says

   November 17, 2011 at 12:49 pm

   If I’m to die, wouldn’t you be writing better poems? But thanks.

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   • JOB says

     November 17, 2011 at 1:35 pm

     Oof!

     JOB

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     • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

       November 17, 2011 at 10:47 pm

       Good to see you know how to take constructive criticism, JOB.

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       • JOB says

         November 18, 2011 at 7:48 am

         I think it comes with the territory – which (“comes with the territory” that is) is another American expression loosely translated to mean, “If you’re going to manifest destiny, you should expect to have to take a few tomahawks to the skull every once in a while.”

         JOB

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2. Churchill says

   November 17, 2011 at 12:49 pm

   Or is this supposed to be farce?

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   • JOB says

     November 17, 2011 at 1:35 pm

     Double oof!

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     • Matthew Lickona says

       November 17, 2011 at 3:50 pm

       The rare “lemon juice in the paper cut” maneuver!

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       • Churchill says

         November 17, 2011 at 4:23 pm

         I’m sure that’s a funny comment in America, but, as a group of young people I know said today, Americans aren’t funny, we don’t ‘get’ American humour, Friends perhaps, but not much else.

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         • lickona says

           November 17, 2011 at 11:03 pm

           Well, JOB said, ‘Double Oof!’ indicating that he had been dealt one blow, and then another. If I were to give someone a paper cut, that would hurt, the way a cutting comment might hurt. If I were to then pour lemon juice in the paper cut, that would hurt even more, the way a crushing comment on top of a cutting comment might hurt. I don’t know if it’s funny, but it might be considered a propos.

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           • lickona says

             November 17, 2011 at 11:04 pm

             But of course, ‘a propos’ is a French term, and if there’s anybody who doesn’t get American humor, it’s the French.

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             • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

               November 17, 2011 at 11:30 pm

               (insert Jerry Lewis reference)

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       • JOB says

         November 18, 2011 at 7:52 am

         Incidentally, I squeezed the pus and lemon juice mixture into my tears, stirred it all into a bit of bottom rail gin, and had a grand old time at my pity party. No one was there. It was perfect. “The event of the season,” I heard it mentioned afterwards.

         JOB

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3. Churchill says

   November 18, 2011 at 3:44 am

   I was joking, although the comments were real, but it wasn’t funny. I was nervous, but feel more serious today.

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   • lickona says

     November 18, 2011 at 7:53 am

     I’m sorry to hear it. As Albert the Alligator of Pogo fame used to say, “Don’t take life so serious – it ain’t nohow permanent.”

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     • JOB says

       November 18, 2011 at 7:55 am

       Is that a reference to a Monty Python skit?

       JOB

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       • lickona says

         November 18, 2011 at 9:14 am

         It could be, but it isn’t. It’s a reference to Pogo, the greatest comic strip in history. But memory played me false – it was Porkypine, not Albert, who said that immortal line.

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         • JOB says

           November 18, 2011 at 10:42 am

           Oh, I see. So it’s not British humor….

           JOB

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           • Jonathan Webb says

             November 18, 2011 at 2:01 pm

             Attention must be paid when I have time.

             Whatever it is with Churchill, megadittos JOB.

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