http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/05/the-killing-joke/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-871 Distractions » Blog Archive » Fritterlog Sat, 24 May 2008 19:47:32 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-871 [...] Rob MacDougall and the Wikipedia-blog Meine Kleine Fabrik, a Wikipedia article on Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, [...] [...] Rob MacDougall and the Wikipedia-blog Meine Kleine Fabrik, a Wikipedia article on Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, [...]

]]> http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-870 Mr. O. W. Lowe, ESQ. Sat, 24 May 2008 17:35:36 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-870 It's rather like Monty Python's "The Unknown Joke" skit, isn't it? But... if stress and pressure were significant factors, though, why wouldn't it strike Japanese students, for instance? This whole MPI thing sounds like an impressive name they assigned it to make it seem as if it were a rational clinical condition we understand. It’s rather like Monty Python’s “The Unknown Joke” skit, isn’t it?
But… if stress and pressure were significant factors, though, why wouldn’t it strike Japanese students, for instance?
This whole MPI thing sounds like an impressive name they assigned it to make it seem as if it were a rational clinical condition we understand.

]]> http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-869 Jest A Minute « Pith Helmet Sat, 24 May 2008 02:29:52 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-869 [...] stranger than fiction,” Prof. Rob’t MacDougall, Propt’r & Gen. Mg’r of Old Is The New New, posted about an epidemic of laughter that occurred in Tanganyika in 1962 which was appropriately [...] [...] stranger than fiction,” Prof. Rob’t MacDougall, Propt’r & Gen. Mg’r of Old Is The New New, posted about an epidemic of laughter that occurred in Tanganyika in 1962 which was appropriately [...]

]]> http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-868 M.Christian Fri, 23 May 2008 21:19:14 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/05/the-killing-joke/#comment-868 Thanks -- so glad you liked it! I'm working on an article on mass hysteria right now for Dark Roasted Blend. Thanks — so glad you liked it! I’m working on an article on mass hysteria right now for Dark Roasted Blend.

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