Europeans often tell me that Americans have no appreciation for or even perception of sarcasm. Indeed, I have noticed that many people here will sometimes say, "I was being ironic", when they wish to indicate that they were attempting to employ sarcasm, not irony, in something they just said.
At the recent SANE 2004 conference, a Frenchman remarked to me how sarcastic my accompanying colleague, Geoff, was and how surprising he found this, coming from an American.
Well, Geoff's not the only one, as this article about maintaining one's belief in George Bush demonstrates. Thanks once again to Sarcastic Geoff for this one. It's nice to see George's long list of successes so cogently stated, so that we may all admire them and the figure responsible for them.
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If there is one thing that is destroying the US from within, more than liberalism, it's got to be the armies of sarcasm.
Hopefully new legislation will bring about the changes needed to keep Americans free from this abomination by the seeding of legal repurcussions to this dreaded lingual disease.
Support Bush's Liberated Speech Act (HR-101).
Posted by Geoff | Tuesday, 26 October 2004 at 13:50:41
Posted on Tuesday, 26 October 2004 at 13:50:41