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  • What Would Star Wars Cost In 2012 Dollars?

    forbes.com 3 weeks, 6 days ago

    Movie budgets have been skyrocketing to absurd rates ever since Kevin Costner spent $175 million in 1995 dollars to make Waterworld. But you know which movie's budget wasn't absurd? Star Wars. As we all know, spent $11 million to make his epic science fantasy film, known to geeks like me as Star Wars Episode IV: ...

  • Colbert Gains Political Steam Down South , But Where's The Man Himself? - The Guardian

    google.com 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    The Guardian Colbert gains political steam down south , but where's the man himself? The Guardian Colbert Nation may be on the march in South Carolina, but their messianic leader has yet to make an appearance in the state. In recent days, voters have had their attentions drawn to ads extolling the virtues of the late night satirist, paid for by the ... Colbert super PAC ad promises "orgy of pure distortion" Ron Paul: Are his voters being stolen away by Stephen Colbert? The Stephen Colbert effect - -

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An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, or the state of being so. "Absurd" is an adjective used to describe an absurdity, e.g., "this encyclopedia article is absurd". It derives from the Latin absurdusm meaning "out of tune", hence irrational. The Latin surdus means deaf, implying stupidity. Absurdity is contrasted with seriousness in reasoning. In general usage, absurdity may be synonymous with ridiculousness and nonsense. In specialized usage, absurdity is related to extremes in bad reasoning or pointlessness in reasoning; ridiculousness is related to extremes of incongruous juxtaposition, laughter, and ridicule; and nonsense is related to a lack of meaningfulness. Students of the absurd usually note a subtle difference between something like "nonsense" and something which is "absurd", in that absurdity is often hidden within either ultra-seriousness or widely-trusted thought. Thus, the role of absurdists is to draw attention to the ridiculous in either "expert-logic" or "common-sense".

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