20 December 2021 - repartee

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In a free country, you can joke about anything, even the effluence of affluence. It gets boring. It’s more fun with censorship, because the people get creative to work around it. There is no totalitarian country. If there were, jokes would be forbidden, and the posters would read “Repartee: Don’t repeat, report.”

clue:

Related:
“In a dictatorship, uneasy lies the bard that bears the frown.”
-- Margaret Atwood

give me a clue so sweet and true

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