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If sarcasm is the lowest, what is the highest form of wit?
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*rhetorical question - aka canon aka undisputable fact*
Isn't the highest form of wit whatever utterances I project from my mouth?
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What if you make a fart joke?
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What if you actually fart?
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Don't those come out of my mouth - hence their inherent wittiness?
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gpackin wrote:What if you actually fart?
Echus Cthulhu Mythos wrote:Don't those come out of my mouth - hence their inherent wittiness?

Do they really? Is your physiology quite normal?


Edit: "anatomy" would have been more appropriate than "physiology" in this context
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Can anything about ECM be considered "normal"?
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What is "normal"?
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Isn't "normal" what you are and everyone else isn't?
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Returning to your original question
laurie wrote:If sarcasm is the lowest, what is the highest form of wit?
wouldn't ECM uttering (with any part of his anatomy) a sarcasm cause a paradox?
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I believe that using sarcasm in that context was ironic and irony is the highest form of wit, is it not?
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Would someone else with a standard anatomy uttering through his mouth non-sarcastical irony produce a higher form of wit than you being ironic but sarcastic at the same time (and from unspecified orifices)?

Aren't we sinking deeper and deeper into paradox to say the least?
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Do I really HAVE to think about ECM's orifaces? ewwwww
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Can everyone please speak english....or simplify your speeches? :oops:
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What?
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Eh?
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Isn't that much easier to understand?
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Don't you think that's a little to simplified?
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Is it ever too simplified for some people?
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Who are these some people you speak of?
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Could it be the blondes like myself?
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Would it be easier just to blame gingas (as they are the source of all things bad in the world)?
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Are you making fun of my nephew? (He has red hair :wink: )
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Are you also mocking my friend?
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