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Wow, almost two years and no replies yet? Trey Parker/Matt Stone made a brief South Park version of the joke for the movie (I guess), and I think I saw that before I even knew about the documentary - so at the end when Stan says "I don't get it" followed by Cartman's "yeah, me either" I too was in the dark. If you don't know it's about the titular joke which started as a vaudeville excuse to work as blue as possible, because back then the language was a hell of a lot more offensive than it is now. Today it's sort of an anti-joke, because it's all in the set-up and none in the punchline. That's probably what I liked most about it, like "how many layers of irony can we add to this?" Steven Wright called it a secret handshake of sorts amongst comedians. I rather enjoyed it.
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Jedi
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I just watched this recently. Meh. Maybe if I had seen it before the hype I would have enjoyed it more.
_____________________________ Weep to Water the Trees.
"This is my main concern with Obama; what if he has been groomed since childhood to blend in with the zionists and infidels? What if he has been led along by a radical islamic terrorist organization and positioned to become an influential politician?
What if Obama gets into White House and turns out to be some crazy muslim terrorist? What do we do then? We'll be pretty screwed. It could happen." -- by some fucking nutjob
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