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Old Sep 10, 2006 | 2:08 pm
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Originally Posted by us2
Dov, as a writer, surely you can appreciate satire. Absurd policies such as these are pretty ripe targets.
I do appreciate satire. In fact, I earn my living from it. Nor has the TSA been exempted from my satires.

Satire, however, requires humor -- not just repeating a series of insults over and over.

If this was an attempt at satire it failed as badly as I would in attempting to teach metallurgy.
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