[Lexicog] Humour, OTT completely

[Nicholas Thieberger]

So who has the best sense of humour out of Pat Robertson and 
Rumsfeld. Please clarify for a non-American if the joke was in the 
christian terrorist  statement (let's kill an elected head of state) 
or in the response (the US doesn't do that sort of thing). I just 
don't get this sort of humour?

Please don't say it wasn't a joke.

Nick


>Rude? No. And we like word plays on this list.
>
>Too subtle? No, but I must confess that I missed your play, to my
>dismay. I believe that one needs at least 20 puns each day for good
>health. I am *green* with envy over missing that conservational play!
>Maybe we should have a green envy party, or just a green party.
>Actually, I think some Americans have picked up on the Green Party
>idea from Europeans.
>
>Wayne
>an aging brain American
>Wayne Leman
>Cheyenne dictionary project

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Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi 
solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Robbery, butchery, rapine, with false names they call Empire; and 
they make a wilderness and call it peace. (Tacitus, Agricola, Ch.30)
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