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== [[Jokes]] ==
* An old political joke, in which a city slicker walks into a bartypically (usuallyset in the backwaters of Alberta or Montana orbackwoods somewhere).with Thethe politicianpoliticians's names varyvarying by era and location,. butIf (ifthe onejoke were toas substituteold Imperialas Rome,[[The asRoman thisEmpire]], isthe aoriginal verywould oldlikely joke)be "A city slicker walks into a bar on thea distant fringechariot of the Roman Empiretrail, and loudly proclaims thatproclaiming 'Brutus is a horse's arse!' There's immediately a big fight and he is violently thrown out of the barinn. The city slickerHe staggers back into the barin and loudly proclaims that 'Caesar is a horse's arse!' There's immediately an even bigger fight and he is thrown out of the bar again. He crawls back in almost near death, to askasking 'if this isn't Brutus country and it isn't Caesar country, then whose country exactly is this?' The immediate response: 'It's horse country!'"
 
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{{quote|'''Mike Nelson''': [[Danny DeVito]]!
'''Kevin Murphy''': Mike, that's a horrible insult to the Thing! }}
* The [[News Biscuit]] article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130730201304/http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/09/13/underworld-does-not-want-blairs-book-in-crime-section/ Underworld does not want Blair's book in crime section]" responds to an Internet campaign to move Tony Blair's memoirs to the 'crime' section of bookshops by suggesting the criminal underworld is "unhappy at being associated with Mr Blair as it makes them feel 'dirty'".
 
== Print Media ==
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* One RPGamer [https://web.archive.org/web/20141116150028/http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/psx/hoshigami/reviews/hoshigamirdrev1.html review] had much to say about ''[[Hoshigami]]'''s lack of sound quality (among other things):
{{quote|''"The sound quality is the crappiest this side of the original NES and the compositions are so dull, so bland, so sickening, that you'll think it was composed by an ape! I apologize; I meant no disrespect to the ape community."''}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427210132/http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-139 This review] of ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' features the line "To say it's massively dissatisfying and frustrating is to do massively dissatisfying and frustrating things a great disservice." [[Captain Obvious|Needless to say, it's not a very positive review]].
* "Calling [[Seltzer and Friedberg|Friedberg and Seltzer]] untalented hacks is an insult to REAL untalented hacks like [[Uwe Boll]], [[Michael Bay]], [[Roland Emmerich]], and [[Eli Roth]]." -- '''[http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=33285 Squid Vicious]''', Joblo.com
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] did a crossover review with the Last Angry Geek of ''[[Spider-Man]]: [[One Moment in Time]].'' Said comic was supposed to be an explanation of the whole mess that ''[[One More Day]]'' ended up creating, but only ended up making it worse. Linkara once again [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|loudly declares]] that [[Joe Quesada]] is a hack, and that calling him one was actually [[Inverted Trope|doing a favor to the other hacks out there]] by making them look better.
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* In ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', Millie comments that the school's pit orchestra isn't good enough to deserve the word "pit".
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' once mentioned that "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-12-17 Most politicians are uncomfortable being compared to tumors. The tumors, however, are getting the short end of the stick]".
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20190504073133/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051209 reminds us] that sometimes you end up with [[Discworld/Men Atat Arms|rocks... an'... other sort of rocks]].
 
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