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  1. The lowest form of wit... on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    ...is the pun. And I spent three years in the punitentiary!

  2. Re:Speak as a Masshole on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    I was in a product training class in Minnesota. I taught a classmate from Houma Louisana how to ski. He had a KILLER sarcastic sense of humor that went way over the heads of the Minnesotans.

  3. No drawl needed... on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...just add fixin' to your lexicon. Wait, isn't lexicon in Massachusetts?

  4. Thanx for the insight... on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    I will be more observant/sensitive when flexing my wry sense of humor around new acquaintances.

  5. Re:What do they call it when... on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    Puerile, senile and sterile.

  6. I thought that Dementia... on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    ...was where the demons live. What can we diagnose with puns?

  7. Their AssholeTurfing... on McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs · · Score: 1

    ...is what triggered my bullshit detector. This long-time (1972) Republican voted for the Big 'O'.

  8. Other common dumbing-down... on Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole · · Score: 1

    How many football fields away is that?

  9. Shutter to think? Sounds more like... on Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data · · Score: 1

    ... think-to-shutter!

  10. (in a Scottish burr)... on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    ... I can't do it Honey, I haven't got enough power!

  11. ...and a 'good' batch of Yellow Fever vaccine... on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    ...is quite unpleasant.

  12. Because he likes the color? on Obama's "ZuneGate" · · Score: 1

    I saw one at my gym. Once.

  13. Reads, corrects, and leaves. on Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    Apologies to Lynn Truss.

  14. So, should it have the moniker 'G Phone' ? on Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries · · Score: 1

    ...no mo

  15. I remember the title! on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    'Super Size Me'. (I've been cutting down on the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs)

  16. Or bird $#!t will suddenly appear... on Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video · · Score: 1

    ...in the camera's line of sight.

  17. Re:To Steve on Apple's New MacBooks Have Built-In Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Helping to advance the Linux line... And this was composed on 10.4.1 !

  18. Re:I was just wondering on Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA · · Score: 1

    Which is why the solar panels on the ISS are turned on edge when in the Earth's shadow.

  19. I may have been 'different', but... on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 1

    ...as a young lad in the 50s I disliked cheap $#!t. A rainy Saturday with a large Erector set, building 3 foot Howe trusses, then sitting in the center. Yowza!

  20. Prediction: on Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters · · Score: 1

    The system will show that traffic on Bart's above-grade lines to be heavy, but moving well.

  21. Re:Together on Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    About 1.5 years ago signs were appearing on the off ramps in my locale: "Apprentice wanted by local investor". I then saw identical 'hand written' signs in a community 120 miles away. Keep your BS detector set for a low trigger threshold.

  22. The newest export: Virtual Truth. on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    coming soon... melamine-fortified.

  23. I guess that the Bible shows... on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    ...the viability of open source.

  24. The Caped Crusader? on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

  25. Another wrinkle: on Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law · · Score: 1

    My brother is a pilot, and used to work for a Beechcraft dealer in a sales tax state. New aircraft sales agreements were signed at the airport coffee shop in a neighboring non-taxing state, and the aircraft remained there for 91 days. Then the aircraft was returned to, and placed in service in, the taxing state. Result? No sales/use tax was incurred.