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[skull_bearer]

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See, this is exactly my problem. When I told my friends I'd gotten into Royal Holloway, they congratulated me in the usual fashion: by making jokes, in this case, Holocaust jokes. Then they quickly stopped after I started correcting their jokes.

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[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, with just a little more thought and research, you could have relayed an anecdote that is not only devastatingly funny to anyone familiar with the subject matter - Florentine political intrigues of the Renaissance, wasn't it? - but also logically coherent and rhetorically concise. Here, let me give you an example. No, really, it's no bother. Where are you going?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I realised long ago that someone who starts a sentence with 'actually' is about to tell me a bare faced lie........

Holocaust jokes? The good Yiddish term 'Schmucks' springs readily to mind!

Sigh :o(