This passage always brings a big smile to my face:<br><br>"It is a gambling proposition," Dr. Talos explained. "And I confess to loving them. The money in the hat is a sure thing--by the close of the first act I can predict to an orichalk how much it will be. But the dropsies! They may be no more than two apples and a turnip, or as much as the imagination can encompass. We have found a baby pig. Delicious, so Baldanders told me when he ate it. We have found a baby baby. We have found a gold-headed stick, and I retain it..."
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">b sharp</b> <<a href="mailto:bsharporflat@hotmail.com">bsharporflat@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think examples of Wolfian humor are especially effective because they are<br>so rare and widely spaced and inevitably droll. 5th Head is so damned dark<br>and foreboding I think there may be no examples. BotNS has a few such as:
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