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Though he is not especially funny, Rudy Giuliani likes to begin with a joke.
Eleven days into Operation Cast Lead, ghoulishly codenamed after an Israeli children's song about the cast lead spinning tops they play with during the festival of Hanukah, and with the usual disproportionate fatalities to date of several hundred Palestinians against five Israelis, it is not, perhaps, the most tactful time to begin with a joke, originally and improbably attributed to Gregory Peck.
"Some say you should always begin with a joke or an anecdote," Eggleston says.
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He began with a joke that elicited knowing guffaws: "A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar.
Owen Jones's indignant, well-argued debut begins with a joke: "It's sad that Woolworth's is closing.
In his annual State of the Judiciary speech a couple of years ago, Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss, of the Kansas Supreme Court, began with a joke about bribery.
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