[lit-ideas] Re: Sophisticated Literalism
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:29:43 +0900
Political humor can be so nasty (and, thus, for some of us, delightful).
Heard the one about the time that President and Mrs. Reagan went out to
dinner at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco?
The waiter asks Mrs. Reagan what she would like.
She replies, "The steak, medium rare."
The waiter say, "And the vegetable?"
She replies, "He'll take the same thing."
John
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:19 AM, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> On Apr 14, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> The epithet still survives.
>
> A graffito in West Belfast the day after her death played on Grice's idea
> of disimplicature. It read:
>
> “Iron Lady, Rust in Peace”
>
>
>
> Having smugly congratulated myself for leaving England when she was
> elected, I landed in an America in which some proportion of the voting
> population (I forget the vote count) thought that a second-rate actor would
> make a good president. Today there are people who adore both figures. Not
> me. But now that she's dead, I'm not going to sing, "Ding Dong." I do,
> however, admire the writer of this particular piece of graffito. Thank you
> for bringing it to our attention.
>
> David Ritchie,
> wondering whether it's going to rain in
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
>
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