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4.18.2008

Peripheral Visionary


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Fans of deadpan humor will recall comic Stephen Wright's joke: "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. " (This along with such gems as, "I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.")

Apparently someone at the recent Scope fair felt the need to materialize the de/humidifier joke and place it in a Koonsian setting. I wonder what they would do with this Wrightsian one-liner: "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:05 PM

    Huh. Interesting how the idea is so much funnier than a physical manifestation of it.

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  2. I like your joke even better!

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  3. Catherine,

    Do you mean the amnesia and deja vu joke? I can't take credit for that; it's Stephen Wright's, too. Along with "peripheral visionary."

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  4. Anonymous10:27 PM

    Speaking of funny things, if you like the lolcats, check out lol art:

    http://lolvantgarde.blogspot.com/

    Ever since Tyler Green posted about it, I can't stop making lols!

    Oriane

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