Inside joke only for DU'ers who have the new Al Franken book...

wyldwolf

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Thu Sep-04-03 12:45 PM
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Inside joke only for DU'ers who have the new Al Franken book...

In reference to Franken's mother on p. 178, this passage has given me the biggest laugh so far.

Went through the same thing with my grandma! And it is very funny in retrospect.
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GainesT1958

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Thu Sep-04-03 12:55 PM
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1. I really like his line about...

Edited on Thu Sep-04-03 12:55 PM by GainesT1958

Referring to the "average tax cut" load line Dub put out last year: "I mean, if they averaged your total assets with those of Bill Gates, it would come to around, oh, $32 billion!" :D

B-)

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BurtWorm

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Thu Sep-04-03 01:07 PM
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2. I just finished the book, don't have it with me

Could you refresh my memory?

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wyldwolf

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Thu Sep-04-03 01:08 PM
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3. ...his mother was suffering from paranoia...

... so he asked the nurse if she was REALLY just an actress hired to play a nurse and was pumping poison gas into his mother's room to kill her...

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BurtWorm

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Thu Sep-04-03 01:10 PM
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4. Oh, that!

That was hilarious. Just one big laugh out of many, many, many!

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madaboutharry

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Thu Sep-04-03 01:25 PM
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5. After finishing the book

I love the most the paragraph when he lists all the insulting and deranged things right-wing nutjobs called Bill Clinton. The last line reads: "In my day, we never used such language to describe a president, unless he was a real asshole like Nixon." I can't explain it, but it just struck me as so funny I still can't stop laughing.

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damnraddem

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Thu Sep-04-03 03:02 PM
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6. I liked page 177 better, about speaking to conservative audiences:

"... I make fun of you. You laugh. And then you pay me."

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SmileyBoy

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Thu Sep-04-03 11:21 PM
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7. I liked how he kept bringing up that paragraph in O'Reilly's book.

"Ashley was now only wearing brief white panties...." (Don't want to give it away)

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