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Re: Back for a day

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by: dsi1 - Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:39 UTC

On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:43:14 PM UTC-10, T wrote:
> On 11/8/23 07:53, Janet wrote:
> > In article <uig0na$1jsjf$1...@dont-email.me>,
> > T...@invalid.invalid says...
> >>
> >> On 11/8/23 04:42, ? Mighty Wannabe ? wrote:
> >>> Palestine has always been inhabited. Palestine is the land of the Bible,
> >>> or "Holy Land". Jerusalem is in the land of Palestine. In Biblical times
> >>> Palestine was a part of the Roman Empire, then it was a part of the
> >>> Bysantine Empire, then ruled by a succession of Caliphates, then the
> >>> Kingdom of Jerusalem, then the Ottoman Empire until the end of WWI.
> >>
> >> Read Mark Twain's travels to the holy land. It
> >> was largely uninhabited.
> >
> >
> >
> > You do realise that "Innocents Abroad" is a satire, full
> > of irony and hyperbole? Twain was lampooning American
> > tourists travelling abroad.
> >
> >
> > Janet
> >
> >
> Of course. Twain is probably the funniest man that walked
> the earth.
>
> His description of the emptiness of the holy land was not
> a joke.
>
> And because the description was before the "truth ministry"
> had at things, it is accurate. That part was not satire.
>
> Now his description of the wall in Paris being so think
> you could hear women on the other side changing their minds,
> means the walls were really thin.
>
> and there is the
>
> “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when
> we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making
> those idiots understand their own language.” It does not
> mean he spoke actual french.

I bet Mark Twain would think this guy is funny. My guess he'd be amazed at this world of comedy that we have built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2ObE5_fg8k