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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    Wiseguy  wrote:   
      
   > Michael Black  wrote in   
   > news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1307201032050.11357@darkstar.example.org:   
   >   
   > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Wiseguy wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> weary flake  wrote in news:wearyflake-   
   > >> E070E0.18012819072013@news.giganews.com:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Je?us  wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:07:47 -0400, David    
   > >>>> wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>> DOUBLE-D?OH!   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> THE GRIFFINS MEET THE Simpsons IN AN EPIC ?Family Guy? EPISODE   
   > >> AIRING   
   > >>>>> NEXT FALL ON FOX   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Guest Voices from THE Simpsons include Dan Castellaneta, Julie   
   > >> Kavner,   
   > >>>>> Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> The prophesy is about to be fulfilled. The last act of the   
   > >>>> Simpsons, way overdue.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I suppose this "special" will just add the worst feature of   
   > >>> each show: the constant references to Stars, or "Celebrities"   
   > >>> as they prefer to be known as nowadays.  Surely, we can't   
   > >>> keep up with the stupid pop-culture in-joke references, I mean,   
   > >>> a real fan is not allowed to see more than one show, so that   
   > >>> would make it impossible to be a Simpsons or Family Guy fan   
   > >>> and get the jokes about the damn stars because that would   
   > >>> require seeing other shows.   
   > >>   
   > >> Huh?   
   > >> Constant references to stars?   
   > >> a real fan is not allowed to see more than one show?   
   > >>   
   > > I think he's implying that "a real fan" would spend so much time and   
   > > energy on "their favorite show" that they'd have no time for some   
   > > other show.   
   > >   
   > > It takes time to go through each episode in slow motion and grab all   
   > > the details.  He may not have even been a fan at the beginning, so he   
   > > has to go back and start from the beginning.  A real fan has to have   
   > > two jobs, the extra to pay for all the show-related items, which also   
   > > require upkeep like dusting.  A real fan spends all his idle time   
   > > looking over the synopsises of old shows, so he's ready to point out   
   > > exactly when and where something happened when someone asks.   
   > >   
   > >    Michael   
   > >   
   >   
   > That's not fan, that's "fanatic."   
   > And we have enough of those here already.   
      
   That whole diatribe was clearly meant as sarcasm. Are you really trying   
   to interpret it literally, when it was intended as hyperbole?   
      
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