“Who’s your favourite politician?”
“Living or dead?”
“Either.”
“Generally I prefer them when they’re dead.”
* Naturally I apologise for the rather dark humour on display in the above segment, but then is it really fair for me to be held responsible for relaying snatches of conversations I may inadvertently overhear when out and about? And there mightn’t even have been any dark comic spirit behind the words. The speaker may simply be of an historically inclined temperament, and thus has a preference for reality to be at arm’s length rather than in the raw.
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