The Comedy Goldmine

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

I'm reading a book, I will give you the opening paragraph and see if you can guess it.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Tale of Moderate Heroism?

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Capital letters are pointless and should be abolished.

This is not Arabic we're discussing here.

Seriously, though- what purpose do they serve, except making learning to read and write a little harder?

I can see you've suffered a lot in the kindergarden.

lol. But there really isn't any point. Plenty of writing systems do just fine without them.

AND­PLENTY­OF­WRITING­SYSTEMS­WORK­WITHOUT­SPACES.DOES­THAT­MEAN­WE­WANT­TO­GET­RID­OF­SPACES­OURSELVES?Having­More­Than­One­Case­Makes­Certain­Writing­Tasks­Easier.

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[PJ]

I think opebo would be a better President in terms of how he'd govern considering all the problems after Mandela's Presidency

Thinking is not your strong suit.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This probably depends upon one's sense of humor, since a guy did get executed and all (and, as Beet points out below, the political context in which he was executed does not bode well for his country or almost anybody in it), but...

Good account of his crimes on KCNA:

Traitor Jang Song Thaek Executed

Upon hearing the report on the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the service personnel and people throughout the country broke into angry shouts that a stern judgment of the revolution should be meted out to the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional elements. Against the backdrop of these shouts rocking the country, a special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security was held on December 12 against traitor for all ages Jang Song Thaek.
    
The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state.
    
The tribunal examined Jang's crimes.
    
All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him.

A decision of the special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK was read out at the trial.

Every sentence of the decision served as sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.
 
The accused is a traitor to the nation for all ages who perpetrated anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts in a bid to overthrow the leadership of our party and state and the socialist system.

Jang was appointed to responsible posts of the party and state thanks to the deep political trust of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and received benevolence from them more than any others from long ago.

He held higher posts than before and received deeper trust from supreme leader Kim Jong Un, in particular.

The political trust and benevolence shown by the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu were something he hardly deserved.

It is an elementary obligation of a human being to repay trust with sense of obligation and benevolence with loyalty.
  
However, despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him.
  
From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive. But, reading their faces, Jang had an axe to grind and involved himself in double-dealing. He began revealing his true colors, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced.
    
Jang committed such an unpardonable thrice-cursed treason as overtly and covertly standing in the way of settling the issue of succession to the leadership with an axe to grind when a very important issue was under discussion to hold respected Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the only successor to Kim Jong Il in reflection of the unanimous desire and will of the entire party and army and all people.
  
When his cunning move proved futile and the decision that Kim Jong Un was elected vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Third Conference of the WPK in reflection of the unanimous will of all party members, service personnel and people was proclaimed, making all participants break into enthusiastic cheers that shook the conference hall, he behaved so arrogantly and insolently as unwillingly standing up from his seat and half-heartedly clapping, touching off towering resentment of our service personnel and people. :ohno:
    
Jang confessed that he behaved so at that time as a knee-jerk reaction as he thought that if Kim Jong Un's base and system for leading the army were consolidated, this would lay a stumbling block in the way of grabbing the power of the party and state.

When Kim Jong Il passed away so suddenly and untimely to our sorrow, he began working in real earnest to realize its long-cherished greed for power.

Abusing the honor of often accompanying Kim Jong Un during his field guidance, Jang tried hard to create illusion about him by projecting himself internally and externally as a special being on a par with the headquarters of the revolution.

In a bid to rally a group of reactionaries to be used by him for toppling the leadership of the party and state, he let the undesirable and alien elements including those who had been dismissed and relieved of their posts after being severely punished for disobeying the instructions of Kim Jong Il and kowtowing to him work in a department of the Central Committee of the WPK and organs under it in a crafty manner.
 
Jang did serious harm to the youth movement in our country, being part of the group of renegades and traitors in the field of youth work bribed by enemies. Even after they were disclosed and purged by the resolute measure of the party, he patronized those cat's paws and let them hold important posts of the party and state.

http://kcna.kp/kcna.user.article.retrieveNewsViewInfoList.kcmsf#this

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This probably depends upon one's sense of humor, since a guy did get executed and all, but...

However, despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him.
   
From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive. But, reading their faces, Jang had an axe to grind and involved himself in double-dealing. He began revealing his true colors, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced.
   
Jang committed such an unpardonable thrice-cursed treason as overtly and covertly standing in the way of settling the issue of succession to the leadership with an axe to grind when a very important issue was under discussion to hold respected Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the only successor to Kim Jong Il in reflection of the unanimous desire and will of the entire party and army and all people.
   
When his cunning move proved futile and the decision that Kim Jong Un was elected vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Third Conference of the WPK in reflection of the unanimous will of all party members, service personnel and people was proclaimed, making all participants break into enthusiastic cheers that shook the conference hall, he behaved so arrogantly and insolently as unwillingly standing up from his seat and half-heartedly clapping, touching off towering resentment of our service personnel and people. :ohno:
   
Jang confessed that he behaved so at that time as a knee-jerk reaction as he thought that if Kim Jong Un's base and system for leading the army were consolidated, this would lay a stumbling block in the way of grabbing the power of the party and state.

When Kim Jong Il passed away so suddenly and untimely to our sorrow, he began working in real earnest to realize its long-cherished greed for power.

Abusing the honor of often accompanying Kim Jong Un during his field guidance, Jang tried hard to create illusion about him by projecting himself internally and externally as a special being on a par with the headquarters of the revolution.

In a bid to rally a group of reactionaries to be used by him for toppling the leadership of the party and state, he let the undesirable and alien elements including those who had been dismissed and relieved of their posts after being severely punished for disobeying the instructions of Kim Jong Il and kowtowing to him work in a department of the Central Committee of the WPK and organs under it in a crafty manner.
 
Jang did serious harm to the youth movement in our country, being part of the group of renegades and traitors in the field of youth work bribed by enemies. Even after they were disclosed and purged by the resolute measure of the party, he patronized those cat's paws and let them hold important posts of the party and state.

http://kcna.kp/kcna.user.article.retrieveNewsViewInfoList.kcmsf#this

That'd be more funny had the author studied Shakespeare

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[Beet]

This probably depends upon one's sense of humor, since a guy did get executed and all, but...

It's not just one guy though. If the reports are true Jang was in favor of moving North Korea towards the path of Chinese-style economic reform as well as opposed to the "nuclear-first" policy which held North Korea's nuclear program as non-negotiable. If he had won whatever power struggle evidently took place, it could have sharply reduced the chance of nuclear war and increased the living standards for the North Korean people. Also, since executions among North Korea's top leadership are so uncommon, this could scare a lot of the generals in carrying out orders from Kim Jong Un even if they are highly imprudent or suicidal. The best thing to happen would be for someone close to Kim to put a slug in his head.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This probably depends upon one's sense of humor, since a guy did get executed and all, but...

It's not just one guy though. If the reports are true Jang was in favor of moving North Korea towards the path of Chinese-style economic reform as well as opposed to the "nuclear-first" policy which held North Korea's nuclear program as non-negotiable. If he had won whatever power struggle evidently took place, it could have sharply reduced the chance of nuclear war and increased the living standards for the North Korean people. Also, since executions among North Korea's top leadership are so uncommon, this could scare a lot of the generals in carrying out orders from Kim Jong Un even if they are highly imprudent or suicidal. The best thing to happen would be for someone close to Kim to put a slug in his head.

Oh, of course. The wording of the news release is funny to those of us with sick senses of humor, but the actual content is very serious and very disturbing. (Actually, I'm beginning to regret posting this here for that reason.)

[Paul Kemp]

All I really know is that half the reports I receive is him attacking someone with expletives on the fantasy board. The other half is him reporting attacks on himself.

[Beet]

Nah, I definitely see why it's hilarious Nathan I just wish sometimes that seanobr or someone was around so we could have in depth discussions of the NK issue as well

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I don't think it's the reich thing to do.

[Joe Republic]

And you base this information on.....what, exactly?  And don't give me Naso-like anecdotes.

Everyone I know says they're against it.

[Paul Kemp]

Excellent .gif technique right here:

I'd prefer it if his first name was Sneakers.

[Napoleon]

Worst drivers in the country (if you exclude the south).  I love the Cardinals, but hate pretty much everything else about the state.

What about opebo?

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elitist prawns.

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Holy sh**t that should not be making me laugh this hard, oh man. Just great.

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Holy sh**t that should not be making me laugh this hard, oh man. Just great.

Same haha

[Keystone Phil]

Perfect. Just perfect.

[Ebowed]

Congratulations, Phil.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

In the spirit of the Christmas Season, I've decided to return after an 81 day period of sabbatical on the Atlas Forum.

As we sit around our Christmas trees this season, or in the cases of our liberal friends, their Eco-Friendly Holiday Trees, we remember one thing that unites all of us in a common good. The fact that we are all children of God and all live in a nation founded under God.

To all the negative naysayers and far left liberals, I'm back with a passion and so you best be on your toes.

- Reaganfan

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[Sopranos Republican]

That was literally the best thing ever

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Ok boys, have at it.

This will never get old.

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i cannot breathe

[Sol]

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