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...really wanted to find out who it was,” he says. “I would have quite possibly paid the $100. It wasn’t really a joke...
...Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer, who has taught Borges’ work in her graduate seminar on aesthetics, wrote in an e-mail that her reaction to the news “alternates between great sadness for the loss and humor, because of course both stories perform the joke typical in Borges of purposefully confusing original with copy...
There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into...
When it comes to the holidays, I'm like the littleold lady in the well-worn joke. She goes to a restaurant, finishes her meal, then presents the waiter with two complaints: one, the food was awful, and, two, there wasn't enough...
Starbucks fancies itself a small company, which might ring a little odd, considering that the coffee giant is regularly parodied as being practically unavoidable. Well, the joke is only going to get funnier as the Seattle firm, with its shareholders clearly in mind, gets even bigger, selling more stuff, from hot food to hot music, in more places than ever before. Right now Big Green runs 12,440 locations worldwide, but the goal is 40,000, which would trump even McDonald...