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Thread #113154   Message #2402865
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
01-Aug-08 - 03:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Martyr's Diary
Subject: RE: BS: The Martyr's Diary
"I've known some very funny Australians and that writer is not one of them. "

You are an Aussie? if not, then your experience is more limited than mine, sorry.

You never heard of Lennie Lower, then, I suppose...

"I'd have to agree with Jack on this one. It's Not terribly funny, just sort of sad."

You just don't Get "Black Humour" in that case. Joe Orton of "Loot" fame WAS English, and we Aussies are closer to Brits than Yanks.... :-) in our sense of Humour anyway - Quote from elsewhere in Mudcat "Yanks don't DO Irony".


""Borat: Jihadist Martyrdom For Make Benefit Glorious Islam" "

Getting closer...