The following spoof article from the "Onion" sets up the hypothesis of your average gay teenager who gets worrying hints that he might be christian. This is obviously a piss-take on the all too real situation of many a teenager in fundamentalist christian communities especially in the USA.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news...ed_he_might_be
Not bad!
It puts pay to the theory that America doesn't do irony.
Well, in a nation of 300 million you're bound to get some deviants with an ironic sense of humourOriginally Posted by Graham Lappin
I recall reading an interview with a stand-up comedian (I forget his name) some years back, who had just completed a world tour. He said that it had generally been a huge success, with Australians in particular rolling in the aisles, but in some parts of the USA he had bombed. They just stared blankly at his best jokes, and simply didn't get them. Which is perhaps why so many US TV comedies have canned laughter - so the audience knows when there's a joke...
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