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That’s my friend Ron Pyke’s variant punchline for one of history’s great anti-jokes.*

This is apropos of the ongoing New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest, which is significantly funnier than the real thing.

* Though I remain a passionate fan of John Cleese’s Frenchmen-in-a-bar-with-a-camel-bartender classic, but I can’t seem to find it online.

“We still have no clue how to make money in the new era, so we’ll bust the people who do.”

Maybe the RIAA can get the Bush Administration to name DJ Drama an “enemy combatant”.