"But they can understand that when you have a big expense coming up -- kids going to college, or retirement -- it makes sense to get rid of your debts".
Like a thousand media liberals before him, Maher journeys gigglingly through America's centres of redneck piety, and has a big laugh at their expense on the grounds that their belief system is crass, reactionary, inconsistent, tyrannical and fictional.
Iona McGregor-Nelson, 20, says joining her rowing society was one of the best things she could have done, but it has turned into a big expense.
"In retrospect," he said, "it really hasn't been a big expense at all".
Like most everyone else, I have a big life with big expenses and soon, the expense of three kids in college.
Maybe that's enough for a businessperson having a light lunch on a big expense account.
I imagined my wife telling the same thing to my family when we got home, and all of them having a big laugh at my expense, and me having a good sense of humor about it and then not and getting ticked off and eventually getting into an argument about something else, anything else.
The underlying, irresistible message of HH – and the basis of every great children's comedy since time immemorial – is that even the most sensible, posh, powerful and/or clever adults can sometimes do really, really stupid things, so let's all have a big impish laugh at their expense.
Lodging is a big expense on a vacation, so think about what you really need to still have an awesome time.
