silber@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Jeffrey Silber) (02/18/86)
A favorite example of meta humor is from Annie Hall: Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is being bothered by a pseudo-intellectual in line who is quoting Marshall McCluhan. Alvy replies "Well I happen to have Mr. McCluhan right here" fetches him from behind a sign board, and proceeds to deflate the pseudo-intellectual. Alvy then remarks to the camera: "don't you wish real life was like this..." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A million here, a million there ... they all add up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeffrey A. Silber silber@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Business Manager JAS@CORNELLD Center for Theory & Simulation {decvax,ihnp4,cmcl2,vax135}!cornell!devvax!silber in Science & Engineering 265 Olin Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853