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IF KNOWLEDGE IS FUNNY
HOW CAN IGNORANCE BE SERIOUS

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Real Reportage From The Rebels' Comedy Hour

February 17, 2007                                          © 2007 JAN COX

When no one was looking, this one man would stick out his tongue at the King. Sometimes when he was alone he'd stick out his tongue at the King, and sometimes when he was alone he'd even stick out his tongue at pictures of the King. And when the day came that he became King and understood what it was all about, all of his past efforts became worthwhile.

Rejecting the ordinary keeps you one.

One ole rebel sergeant's advice to the rookies: "No matter where you're captured, no matter who you think caught you, and no matter why you think you were captured--as long as you do think you have been caught--silence is generally the best course of action.

Relying on derivative, ancillary sources suppresses creativity; it does help stabilize ordinary collective life, but it does little for a revolutionist.

While the ordinary want to discuss whether "this-or-that" particular bullet is fatal or not, a revolutionist just tries to stay out of the way of meaningless gunfire.

When they would get close to new fields and could almost smell the freshness, the neural patterns of this one man's mind would
try and cry out, "Cut me a'loose--Take me to the bridge--
Do SOMETHING!!!"

Most people discovered an unusual, personal pet when they were young, but then let it grow up to be them.

…..and a man wondered, "Is that why every time I whistle, I'm tempted to call out, 'Here me, here me….come on boy, over here!'"

Once certain information gets in the system
it is extremely difficult to get it out.

One of the continuing popular tunes in today's charts is titled,
"If You Don't Love Me, Why Did You Shoot Me?"

The definition of being "civilized" according to one man, is being able to hear an expert on human behavior speak and not wanting to smile.

After many years of spiritual study and philosophical reflection, this one man gradually developed his own personal "saying" that he would say to his self whenever things weren't going so well, (he'd say), "Jeeze, things aren't going so well."

With a certain degree of clarity, a young court courier one day thought, "Once the king starts quoting other men's ideas as the basis of his authority, we're all in the sheep dip."

In all neural solar systems in this universe, suns that don't know that they are, ain't (and upon hearing this a short man said, "Well. No wonder I don't think so good.").

An ole man and his son were in city park when one of the speakers proclaimed, "The truth will always out." And a short time later, as they stopped at a street vendor to get an ice cream, the elder mentioned, "Regarding what that man said about 'The truth will always out,' it should be added, 'The truth will always out when life wants it that way,' and at times when it apparently does not, and you seem to be on the short end of the deal, kick, curse and spit for an hour or so and then just forget it! Two pistachios please, and hold the onions."

And almost simultaneously to the just-mentioned scene in the park, a man sitting alone in his room across town looked out the window and thought, "Words to live by don't mean ANYthing unless you're actually trying to live." (Some of the uncoordinated find it hard to think and live at the same time.)

One day, one subversively precocious kid suddenly bethunk,
"'Tis good to have an older relative upon whom one can look down."

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