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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-03-15 12:52 pm
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What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?
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Re: Telling the same joke over and over, and expecting it to be funny

(Anonymous) 2009-03-15 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Niven is 70. This is not an uncommon failing of people that age. Putting up with a certain degree of it is inherent in the respect normally extended to one's elders.

Which isn't to say it's not annoying.
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Re: Telling the same joke over and over, and expecting it to be funny

[personal profile] avram 2009-03-16 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be less annoying if it weren't an astonishingly stupid thing to be saying at all.
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