donnz's Journal: Humour II - The Empire Strikes Back

In the past I have suggested that the citizens of the USA suffered from some form of humour impairment. (Here and here if you must know.)

I now find the evidence is against me. On a very rare foray into the world of TV I caught a re-run of the infamous Southpark "Ladder to Heaven" episode - you know, the one where, amongst other things, Saddam is building WMDs in heaven, right under God's nose! It was VFF indeed. As with "ball hits man in groin" it works on many different levels.

Even on /. I can find the following:

In Germany they have this weird concept that a seller liying in an advertisement is fraud, as the seller is misrepresenting the product.

In the USA, we are more enlightened than that, and judges have ruled that is quite Ok to lie (even when the company *knows* its lying) in an add as this constitutes free speech.

So, there you go. Counter-proof - and not a moment too soon.