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...Hoot with Bob Halperin--the Idler's Back Room...
...Hoot with Bob Haiperin--Idier's Back Room...
...then do we hoot at these mistakes? For one thing, it may be that we simply find conventional discourse so predictable and boring that any deviation comes as a delightful relief. In his deeply unfunny Essay on Laughter the philosopher Henri Bergson theorized that the act of laughter is caused by any interruption of normal human fluidity or momentum (a pie in the face, a mask, a pun). Slips of the tongue, therefore, are like slips on banana peels; we crave their occurrence if only to break the monotonies. The monotonies run to substance. When that announcer introduced Hoobert Heever...
They don't give a hoot about the critics...
...with the giant corporations which he believes dominate critical decision-making. "All the problems of this country can be traced to the fact that decisions vital to the national interest are made by corporations who are interested only in maximizing profits," he claims, adding, "They don't give a hoot about the national interest...