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* His letter to a magazine that accidentally [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated reported his death before he actually died]]:
-->I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to [[DeadpanSnarker delete me from your list of subscribers]].
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-->And twenty stone from a height discharged\\

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-->And --->And twenty stone from a height discharged\\
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* Precisely where the CrowningMomentOfFunny falls in '[[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-code-of-morals/ A Code of Morals]]' depends on the reader.

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* Precisely where the CrowningMomentOfFunny falls in '[[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-code-of-morals/ A Code of Morals]]' depends on the reader.Morals]]'



** And a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for General Bangs, who never took revenge on the heliographing Jones: "All honour unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones thereafter know/ By word or act official who read off that helio."

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** And a CrowningMomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for General Bangs, who never took revenge on the heliographing Jones: "All honour unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones thereafter know/ By word or act official who read off that helio."
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"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat." All of it, but especially the closing scene in which the ''entire House of Commons'' breaks into the title song. And the Irish. Dear God, the Irish.
-->''ARE YE WITH ME, BHOYS?''

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"The *"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat." All of it, but especially the closing scene in which the ''entire House of Commons'' breaks into the title song. And the Irish. Dear God, the Irish.
-->''ARE YE WITH ME, BHOYS?''-->When they weakened for an instant, Ireland would yell: "Are ye ''with'' me, bhoys?" and they all renewed their strength like Antaeus.
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"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat." All of it, but especially the closing scene in which the ''entire House of Commons'' breaks into the title song. And the Irish. Dear God, the Irish.
-->''ARE YE WITH ME, BHOYS?''
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** And a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for General Bangs, who never took revenge on the heliographing Jones: "All honour unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones thereafter know/ By word or act official who read off that helio."

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* Precisely where the CrowningMomentOfFunny falls in 'A Code of Morals' depends on the reader.

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* Precisely where the CrowningMomentOfFunny falls in 'A '[[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-code-of-morals/ A Code of Morals' Morals]]' depends on the reader.reader.
** "The General swore. Was ever General Officer addressed as 'dear' before?"

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Precisely where this falls in 'A Code of Morals' depends on the reader.
** In "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone," a Hindu bureaucrat describes his killing the title character as "by High Education brought pressure to bear." In fact, the obese clerk accidentally '''fell on top of''' the poor bandit prince:

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Precisely where this the CrowningMomentOfFunny falls in 'A Code of Morals' depends on the reader.
** * In "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone," a Thone":
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Hindu bureaucrat describes his killing the title character as "by High Education brought pressure to bear." In fact, the obese clerk accidentally '''fell on top of''' the poor bandit prince:



*** "So you kept that jade earring!"

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*** ** "So you kept that jade earring!"

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