= Wit's End =
=== What Wit is, How it Works, and Why We Need It ===
=== James Geary 2019, Tigard Library 809.7 GEA ===
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Lots'a'funny.  Overwhelming in one read.

 .p23: Lecturing at Columbia, linguist J. L. Austin claimed "no example existed of a language in which two positives make a negative.  Sidney Morgenbesser stage-whispered "Yeah, yeah." 
 .p24: During the 1984 campaign versus 56yp Walter Mondale, 73yo Reagan was asked whether he was still up to the job.  "I will not make age an issue of this campaign; I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
 .p48: She had read so much about the harmful health effects that she decided to give up: A) Smoking B) Reading
 .p53: Dublin Archbishop Richard Whately (1787-1863):
  . Why can't you starve in the desert? Because you can eat the sand which is there.
  . Who brought the sandwiches there?  Noah sent Ham, and his decendants mustered and bred.
  . Noah's ark was made of gopher wood, but Joan of Arc was Maid of Orleans.
 .p54: George Carlin:  Atheism is a non-prophet institution.  He was not atheist or agnostic but acrostic: "The whole thing puzzles me"
 .p55: John Lennon, how do you find America?  "Turn left at Greenland"
 .p58: "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible"