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Old Apr 10th, 2008, 10:30 PM       
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I just took a political subject and inserted a joke that relied on a fairly low level of pop culture. Here are the assumptions I made about my audience that caused things to go wrong wrong.

1) They know what the capital of the United Arab Emirates is.
2) They were born before 1988.
3) They have the ability to detect irony in my voice, which is significantly less monotone than when I was 13.
4) They're not kind of dumb.
I just got the strangest mental image of the people that you talk to, Seth.
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