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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: "The Great Bores"
> Thank you for telling (I don't want the showing) of this new Reality
> Show, Fred. Oh, what a falling off (yet rhetorical rising up) was there.
>
> But were the prizes really worth it?
>
> Doug
Hey, one wants SOME sort of recognition ...
There's a legal problem involved, which was pointed out as far back as the
30s by Robert Benchley: If one bores everyone, doesn't that make one
interesting (hence indictable for fraud)?
As I was writing this, I was thinking of a Kliban cartoon from long before
reality-tv etc; it is one of the touchstone images of my life and can be
found at
www.coldbacon.com/pics/kliban/bkgofuck.gif
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