I think that a lot of people, if they devoted their life to this kind of thing, could reliably write funny lines.
Not only would I be able to reliably write about cell phones and gas pumps, I'd be able to write about anything and everything.
Page B8 Arts A ROLE-PLAYING GAME THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH The new Darkspore game from Electronic Arts is an online action-role-playing game that, while hardly groundbreaking, is at least reliably diverting, writes Seth Schiesel.
I could always turn to the last page knowing that the travel essay would be reliably interesting, well written and thought-provoking.
Then there is the rule "no original research," which was meant to say that Wikipedia doesn't care if you are writing about the subway station you visit every day, find someone who has written reliably on the color of the walls there.
There are some elements of standup that robots are still struggling with: there's no form of artificial intelligence that can write reliably entertaining jokes, and speech-recognition software isn't yet advanced enough to deal with hecklers.
The biggest disappointment of all, however, was the failure to recognise the clever Party Down, written by the reliably sardonic Rob Thomas and undeservedly cancelled by former HBO head honcho Chris Albrecht when he joined Starz.
The reliably conservative Clarence Thomas has a written a bitter new autobiography in which he rips those who opposed his nomination to the court, including Democratic senators, Anita Hill, the media and liberals in general.
The alternative, especially when the most important contingency claims cannot all be written down and reliably enforced is some sort of vertical integration.
Most comedy directors now believe that even an expertly written script can't reliably elicit belly laughs.
