"Can you say '
Hack'?"
"
Hack? What's up with
that?"
"Think '
Hack'"
"I can't believe I ate the whole
Hack!"
"It's a
Hack thang, you wouldn't understand."
"Is it just me, or is this
Hack?"
"
Hack comedy? Hello-oh!"
"W-W-W-dot-
Hack!-dot-com"
"Oh, Lu-cy! You gots a lot o' 'splainin' to
Hack!"
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SECTION 9: HOW TO TELL IF A TOPIC WILL BE HACK BEFORE IT IS
Any news story which allows a hack comic to cover a controversial subject by saying "hey, I just saw this on the news..." will be done to death within two weeks.
Look out for any news story dealing with genitalia (Viagra, the Lewinsky scandal,) gruesome murder (OJ, Dahmer,) bodily mutilation (Bobbitt, Harding/Kerrigan,) or any other taboo subject.
Also, be on the lookout for innocuous news stories where the joke is obvious: Dan Quayle jokes were already rampant when the "potatoe" story broke.
</hack_XML_tag>
I would have posted The Whole Thing, however ...
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