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Oil CEO on April 21, 2006 - 12:49am

Peak Tires. Peak Corn. Some days you just can't win.

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Engineer-Poet on April 21, 2006 - 1:13pm

I think this word is getting over-worked. I am ready for peak peaks.

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step back on April 21, 2006 - 1:54pm

Peak peaks correlates with die-off.
Undulating plateaus is the better alternative.

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Engineer-Poet on April 21, 2006 - 2:00pm

I think someone didn't get the joke.

If we're into humor depletion already, does that mean we didn't notice peak corn?

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ericy on April 21, 2006 - 2:08pm

I don't believe in peak humor - I think there are billions of jokes still out there that remain to be discovered.

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Donal on April 21, 2006 - 2:27pm

I read somewhere that humor is created continuously deep within the earth's core. In the US, we pump out these crude jokes, and refine them into puns, bon-mots, witticisms and the Daily Show, but poorer countries just make do with humble fart jokes and rude noises.

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jokuhl on April 21, 2006 - 3:09pm

Getting flashbacks to Monsters, Inc, running out of Scream, and then going for the more powerful yuks, instead.

Not to quibble over a throw-away, but I'm just CERTAIN that the US has an ample supply of the Cruder Stuff, if only we could just bottle that fine goo and drive our cars on it..

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ericy on April 21, 2006 - 3:41pm

One can argue that as we deplete the clean humor, that all will be left is the high-sulphur humor from whence fart jokes and South Park episodes are made.

Some types of jokes appear to be nearly completely depleted - knock-knock jokes and polack jokes for example.

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TheFatLadyhasSung on April 21, 2006 - 6:30pm

You believe in abiotic humor? Wow! I thought that was completely discreditied!

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