CALVIN: Bugs fly in such crazy loops and zigzags. I wonder why they don’t get dizzy and barf.
HOBBES: Maybe they do!
CALVIN: Eww, gross! Ha ha ha! But then why would they keep flying that way?
HOBBES: Maybe bugs like to barf!
CALVIN: Ewwww! They would!! Ha ha ha ha! Blaugh!
CALVIN: I tell you, Hobbes, it’s great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of ideas.
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now — to quote myself at my most pretentious — is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste. For example, the freedom (hooray!) to say almost anything you want on television about society’s problems has been co-opted (alas!) by the freedom to talk instead about flatulence, orgasms, genitalia, masturbation, etc., etc., and to replace real comment with pop-culture references and so-called “adult” language. Irreverence is easy — what’s hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer (b. 1928) American mathematician, satirist, songwriter
Rhino Records online chat (17 Jun 1997)
