My friends from other states -- states lacking equivalent gun-allurement -- endlessly joke and curiously question whether I, a Montanan, am indeed "packing". To me, the thought is laughable.
The endlessly repeated joke is that the tower offers the best views in the city because it is the only place from which you cannot see it.
Especially the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an endlessly unfunny joke only recently and briefly made interesting by the feuding between Steve Miller and those perpetual strivers and lesser Stripes, the Black Keys.
On Friday morning the world woke up to reports of an earthquake in Kent – and their Twitter feeds stuffed full of the same jokes endlessly retweeted.
"It's just the same joke endlessly repeated – the everyday translated into geek-speak," argued the LA Times critic, "and the obscure and difficult treated as if it were common knowledge".
Unlike "Mrs. Farnsworth," Mr. Gurney's likewise forgettable but more sturdily constructed raspberry blown at Mr. Bush, this play is little more than an overextended joke endlessly in search of a suitable payoff, and feels padded at a mere 75 minutes.
And later, when we could afford to leave our rooms, we'd sit in a pub together and laugh endlessly at mishaps and in-jokes and personality quirks, as if our characters were part of ourselves.
And I just would never do that, like that would be so stupid for me to do that!" Look, anyone with experience within the comedy circuit will tell you this: if you watch enough stand-up, you're going to start seeing the same jokes recycled endlessly.
The big joke, repeated endlessly (and sometimes wittily) in Adam Sandler vehicles, school-of-Apatow farces and up-from-mumblecore slackfests is that guys can reject all the traditional trappings of maturity — jobs, manners, hygiene — and that girls will sleep with them anyway.
When delivering his acceptance speech, Dick Cheney said that John Edwards was nominated on the strength of his hair, before adding, "How do you think I got the job?" The genre of the self-effacing line can work wonders for a candidate but not if it's the same basic joke repeated endlessly.
