Walter In Denver

I really liked this one.

Do you have that new Smell-TTL protocol?

Really, Walter, with all due respect, talk about being content-free....

(Incidentally, if you can hang out outside in NYC in August and not perspire, please let me know your secret.)

Jeez, two + years of blogging and I tell one dumb joke...

Hey, I'm hardly in any position to criticize people for making dumb jokes, and that's not what I was doing.

I'm just -- and this may be because it sailed over my head -- not understanding what the basis here was, beyond something like "ha, ha, Michael Moore is fat!" (And you presumably have read enough of my posts on MM to know that I have no respect for him -- but not on the basis of his looks.) Or... I just don't get why these folks particularly "smell" (beyond that, as I alluded, in point of fact pretty much everyone in NYC in August does, in fact, smell; I don't advise venturing into the subway stations in summer if you're sensitive).

The fact that it plays into the dullest of cliches -- "haha, those hippies shure do smell!" -- makes it only seem more pointless, but, as I said, it's possible I'm missing the joke entirely. Either way, no biggie.

You know the joke's a failure when you find yourself explaining it.

I thought the expressions on their faces were comical, somewhere around annoyance and disgust, as if the celebrities were dismayed to find themselves in the company of the little people.

Does anybody even know what these protestors were supposed to be protesting? What was their message anyway?