When the friend of a man destroys his own face by showing off with a Bic lighter ("a joke blows up"), the speaker gains self-esteem, dreams of marriage on the loading dock where he works, and acts to arrange an affair with the friend's wife.
"To show he was very much alive, the victim of the prearranged joked blew his whistle incessantly during the march across the field and was finally and somewhat unceremoniously spilled to mother earth," The Times noted.
Danny (9 51 09 PM): And John McCain's joke blows.
There have been enough salutary examples of this sort of thing (everyone remembers the so-called Twitter joke trial, where a man was dragged through court for years for making a joke about blowing up an airport if his flight was delayed) to mean that these fears are not merely hypothetical.
"I never got the kind of accolades Roach is getting," he said, and he reprised some of the slant rhymes he had been reciting for weeks: "He's a joke / Blowing smoke / With no hope".
Celebrities appeared in court yesterday to support the right of a man to joke about blowing up an airport.
"That was changed to 'C.I.A. operative.' " A joke about blowing up Zabar's was cut.
Or the guy who was arrested for a joke about blowing up an airport?
Instead of quietly pointing out that it was best not to joke about blowing up airports, he arrested him under antiterrorist legislation.
A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet after making a joke about blowing up an airport is to learn the outcome of his challenge against conviction.
