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(Washington Post)   "Kurt Vonnegut was the American Mark Twain." Gosh--wonder who's the British Charles Dickens?   (washingtonpost.com) divider line
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MisterTweak
2007-11-19 4:02:26 PM  
Damn, Smitty. Nice catch. Took me a minute there!
 
oldebayer
2007-11-19 4:20:51 PM  
Christopher Hitchens thinks it's himself.
 
adiabat
2007-11-19 4:41:32 PM  
S'mitty,

You've got it all wrong! Charles Dickens was the British Shakespeare
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-11-19 4:43:04 PM  
adiabat: You've got it all wrong! Charles Dickens was the British Shakespeare

I'm not sure if that's supposed to be clever or astute, considering that Shakespeare was English...
 
jimmyhaha
2007-11-19 4:46:32 PM  
Hitchens thinks he's the literate George Orwell.
 
Doggie McNugget
2007-11-19 4:48:53 PM  
Hitchens thinks he'd like another scotch
 
SherKhan
2007-11-19 4:50:30 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat:

I'm not sure if that's supposed to be clever or astute, considering that Shakespeare was English...

heartofbusiness.com
 
TheRealMcCoy
2007-11-19 4:51:09 PM  
From Wikipedia:
"J. Michael Lennon is the official biographer of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer. He is a former professor of English at Sagamon State University, in Illinois, and Wilkes University in Pennsylvania"

He's also a moran
 
adiabat
2007-11-19 4:53:42 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I'm not sure if that's supposed to be clever or astute, considering that Shakespeare was English...

Yes.
 
NittLion78
2007-11-19 4:58:36 PM  
Dostoevsky was the Russian Tolstoy.
 
Boritom
2007-11-19 5:03:44 PM  
Ishiro Honda was the Japanese Akira Kurosawa
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-11-19 5:07:57 PM  
adiabat: Yes.

Hmmmm... I seem to be suffering from a case of the Fail.

/Could be fatal...
 
tdyak [OhFark]
2007-11-19 5:47:18 PM  
NittLion78: Dostoevsky was the Russian Tolstoy.

I'll have to give you crap on this one. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and Tolstoy (1828-1910) lived and wrote during the same period.

It would be closer to say Bulgakov (1891-1940) was the Russian Dostoevsky.

Boritom: Ishiro Honda was the Japanese Akira Kurosawa

Same with this example. They lived and worked during the same period.
 
pootsie
2007-11-19 5:50:13 PM  
Celine Dion is the Canadian ... talentless whore?
 
Kome
2007-11-19 6:01:16 PM  
Moses is like the Jewish Jesus.
 
Snarfangel
2007-11-19 6:08:08 PM  
I've read both, and I have to say I prefer Twain.

/"I wish I owned half of that dog."
"Why?" somebody asked.
"Because I would kill my half."
The group searched his face with curiosity, with anxiety even, but found no light there, no expression that they could read. They fell away from him as from something uncanny, and went into privacy to discuss him. One said:
"'Pears to be a fool."
"'Pears?" said another. "Is, I reckon you better say."
"Said he wished he owned half of the dog, the idiot," said a third. "What did he reckon would become of the other half if he killed his half? Do you reckon he thought it would live?"
--Pudd'nhead Wilson

//Some fictional characters are immune to humor, and are thus the subjects of it.
 
NittLion78
2007-11-19 7:40:24 PM  
tdyak: I'll have to give you crap on this one. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and Tolstoy (1828-1910) lived and wrote during the same period.

It would be closer to say Bulgakov (1891-1940) was the Russian Dostoevsky.

Actually, it would be closer to say "if anyone gives a serious answer of any sort in this thread, they should be beaten with a TV antenna".
 
Humean_Nature
2007-11-19 8:21:29 PM  
*prepares to type*

NittLion78: if anyone gives a serious answer of any sort in this thread, they should be beaten with a TV antenna

*removes hands*
*backs out of thread*
 
Godzilla
2007-11-19 8:30:45 PM  
So it goes.
 
kirbeep
2007-11-19 8:34:16 PM  
Vonnegut was the American Mark Twain. He even looked liked him.

He looked liked him too.
 
ukiah
2007-11-19 8:38:13 PM  
Im the musical version of the sharp knees guy.

/loves vonnegut.
 
ANGRY ASSHOLE
2007-11-19 8:38:31 PM  
Jean-Claude Van Damme is the Belgian Jean-Claude Van Damme.
 
McEnroe My Childhood Nemesis
2007-11-19 8:44:18 PM  
So long Billy Pilgrim... have fun on Tralfamadore.
 
Ariluto
2007-11-19 8:55:44 PM  
Hmmm... I thought being literate was a prerequisite for the writing profession.
 
Valdes
2007-11-19 9:02:28 PM  
Jimmy Page was the English Eric Clapton.
Canada is a North American version of the USA.

But seriously:

Lars Ulrich is like a Danish version of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid.
 
Der_Lex
2007-11-19 9:04:52 PM  
I think we can all agree, though, that Tsathoggua was the Yuggothian Cthulhu.
 
Kome
2007-11-19 9:05:46 PM  
Ariluto: Hmmm... I thought being literate was a prerequisite for the writing profession.

Welcome to the internet.
 
T.rex
2007-11-19 9:09:54 PM  
I for one, think Twain is closer to an American version of Samuel Clemens using an pseudonym.
 
Master of the Flying Guillotine
2007-11-19 9:12:53 PM  
George Orwell was the British Eric Blair.
 
Mr. Chainsaw
2007-11-19 9:40:57 PM  
There isn't a FAIL picture strong enough for this guy.
 
jimpoz
2007-11-19 9:42:26 PM  
Wow, you're like the Arnold Palmer of golf!
 
Jack31081
2007-11-19 9:43:25 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I'm not sure if that's supposed to be clever or astute, considering that Shakespeare was English...

Is this the thread where we all make fun of this guy? Let me know.
 
Suicidal Writer
2007-11-19 9:54:00 PM  
Suicidal Writer is the American Sylvia Plath.
 
aendeuryu
2007-11-19 10:12:28 PM  
Rich with fail, this J. Michael Lennon is.
 
Tirion529
2007-11-19 10:13:47 PM  
+1 despite my non-Total Fark-ness

/golfclap anyways
 
torch
2007-11-19 10:33:36 PM  
They'll be so relieved to hear this in Hartford.
 
ridcullylives
2007-11-19 10:40:28 PM  
I see a new cliche forming.

/I'm the American George Washington.
 
KlaatuTheWolf
2007-11-19 10:47:58 PM  
This is unpossible, since everyone knows that Mark Twain was the american Washington Irving.
 
Insertwitty Namehere
2007-11-19 10:55:58 PM  
*?
 
shower_in_my_socks
2007-11-19 11:28:44 PM  
Somewhere Twain is laughing at this article. It'd be a Twain-like joke if the author had intended it as such.

/Mark Twain was the American Samuel Clemens.
 
This
2007-11-19 11:38:43 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: adiabat: Yes.

Hmmmm... I seem to be suffering from a case of the Fail.

/Could be fatal...

Damnit, if you'd dug your hole deeper, we could've made you into the new Rotksy. Then again, "Angry Drunk Bureaucrat" doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
 
This
2007-11-19 11:43:12 PM  
KlaatuTheWolf: This is unpossible, since everyone knows that Mark Twain was the american Washington Irving.

And Samuel Clemens is, logically, the American Yossarian? Or Major Major Major Major?

/am I the only one who's noticed the recent abundance of Catch-22 references? Or is it simply just more obvious because I just finished reading the book?
 
ANGRY ASSHOLE
2007-11-19 11:54:38 PM  
Jesus Christ was the American Joe Piscopo.
 
Not_Enginerd
2007-11-19 11:55:22 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: adiabat: You've got it all wrong! Charles Dickens was the British Shakespeare

I'm not sure if that's supposed to be clever or astute, considering that Shakespeare was English...

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Bill Frist
2007-11-20 12:15:31 AM  
But if sales are the measure of the public's mind, then honors clearly belong to Vonnegut.

While I love Vonnegut... if sales figures are a measure of the public's mind, then Dan Brown is the greatest american thinker of the 21st century.
 
fish500
2007-11-20 12:31:53 AM  
Not_England
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Kevin5280
2007-11-20 12:55:52 AM  
LOL

+1, smitty
 
Snowflake Tubbybottom
2007-11-20 1:22:37 AM  
I love my Prius... its like the Cadillac of cars.
 
mmagdalene
2007-11-20 1:31:25 AM  
oldebayer: Christopher Hitchens thinks it's himself.
jimmyhaha: Hitchens thinks he's the literate George Orwell.
Doggie McNugget: Hitchens thinks he'd like another scotch

And God help me, I love him. Nice headline, btw. :)
 
pelzo63
2007-11-20 1:32:57 AM  
i heard they were planning on making this new movie, they described it as being like Die Hard, but in a building.
 
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