And that's a big reason it was laugh-out-loud funny for me and so many others.

Good point. I should have said "I guess the writer of this piece has never seen or heard of 'Dr. Strangelove,' huh?"

That works, too.

"Outright comedy," as in the whole movie? From the planes having sex in the opening credits, to the character names, to George C. Scott's mugging performance, to Peter Sellers …

Hey, you brought age into it. I didn't. "Dr. Strangelove" was already an "old movie" by the time I caught up with it, too.

I guess nobody here has seen or heard of "Dr. Strangelove," huh?

Sounds more like Ween.

An entire post about cannibal puns being tiresome … using tiresome cannibal puns!

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