Ken Sletten writes:
 
>From only one perspective can I find fault with Wirt's
>corporate expansion:  When reading a Wirt-gram,
>you usually have to get quite a ways into it before
>you have any chance of figuring out whether or not
>he's kidding.....  Actually, sometimes I can get all
>the way to the end and *still* not be sure.......
 
Reality isn't generally all that easy to figure out, either. Most often, the
only differences between humor and reality lie in the eye of the beholder.
 
However, as Blaise Pascal wrote in 1670, about those who make light of items
of importance: "A jester is an evil character."
 
Or as Thomas Fuller wrote in 1732, "Where you see a jester a fool is not far
off."
 
Wirt Atmar