Archive for September 2008
How can you find someone who doesn’t want to be found?
A comedian (comedienne if female), or comic, is a performer who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who stands alone and addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic. A comedian can be distinguished from a clown because clowns most often use slapstick, wear costumes and makeup, and engage in buffoonery, whereas comedians most often focus on a more verbal style of humour, telling jokes
“A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny,” which draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive…
Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.
A lie (also called prevarication) is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, protect someone’s feelings or to avoid a punishment. Lying is typically used to refer to deceptions in oral or written communication. A white lie would cause no discord if it were uncovered and offers some benefit to the liar, the hearer, or both. White lies are often used to avoid offense, such as telling someone that you think that their new outfit looks good when you actually think that it is a horrible excuse for an outfit. In this case the lie is told to avoid the harmful implications and realistic implications of the truth.
The most commonly cited milestone in human development, is known as Machiavellian intelligence, is at the age of about four and a half years, when children begin to be able to lie convincingly. Before this, they seem simply unable to comprehend that anyone doesn’t see the same view of events that they do — and seem to assume that there is only one point of view: their own.
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