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Re: Huge amounts of sentimental mush
Quartz, on host 63.64.161.48
Tuesday, January 23, 2001, at 13:03:18
Huge amounts of sentimental mush posted by Philbee on Tuesday, January 23, 2001, at 05:15:47:
> Howdy there from the country across the pond! Yeah! English message! Yeah! anyway...
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> The other day I saw some footage of Tom Hanks being incredibly sentimental and mushy at something like a press conference. Do you lot in the US of A actually LIKE that kind of stuff? Sentiment can ruin a good bit of comedy (it happens a lot in The Simpsons). Any thoughts?
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> Incidentally, go and see my cool website:
> i.am/philip.and.i.speak.to.america
I agree. I prefer wildly-running comedy to sentiment anyday. I mean, emotion and love and all that has its place but not if everybody gets all gooshy-eyed. And it can ruin a comedy too, just like how bad jokes can ruin a drama.
~~*Q*~~
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