Jeff and I both agree that the easiest way to get away with a lie is to wrap it in the truth. Or, at least, wrap it in bacon and claim it is the truth.
Jeff knew Sam Clemens back when he was working on Huck Finn, and frequently told him that the best way to get away with being devious was to openly admit it and thus confound your opponents. This is quite the sound rhetorical theory and it only works because almost no one uses it. Just take a look at Hitler. He laid out his plan for genocide pretty early on in his career, and nobody believed anyone could be that crazy. Just imagine if your local politician said he was going to raise your taxes and make mowing your lawn on Sundays illegal. You’d think he was out of his mind and vote the silly bugger into office in a second.
Jeff was out looking for audacity today, and found it all over the place. The PSA about pot is a perfect example. Everyone knows that martial artists don’t indulge in such a practice. After all of those hits to the head, neck and groin that they sustain there really is no need for a chemical to alter ones perceptions. My guess is that guy has flobbed that break on more than one occassion and taken a liking to the pretty stars that he sees when things go amiss. And not only that, such a practice, whacking one’s head with a board, is still perfectly legal in the U.S.
A further example of audacity in Jeff’s post is the goaly that looks like Rick James. When you look like that kind of a bad ass you had better be good, or somebody is going to plunge that gheri curl straight into a toilet. And I would imagine looking like Rick James would make you think that you were pretty damn snazzy anyway. Now that I think about it, that’s a little bit what Jeff looks like when he’s feeling particularly inventive. I’ll bet he had the disco ball going all day today as he scoured the internet for things to brighten your day.
Tune in tomorrow when Jeff breaks out his own gheri curled locks and finds even more examples of being successful at looking downright silly.
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