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This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities.
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![[SCENE: The court of Henry VIII. The King sits on his throne. An ADVISOR approaches him.]
ADVISOR: Your majesty, the kingdom is bankrupt!
HENRY VIII: Damn this costly war...
ADVISOR: Not the war, sir. Ir’s your jester subscriptions.
HENRY VIII: But they’re only 7 groats 95 a month!
ADVISOR: They really add up, your highness
ADVISOR: The palace doth o’erflow with well-reviewed jesters you’ve never even watched
[Show lots of jesters sitting round, bored]
HENRY VIII: Well there’s just so many ‘unmissable jesters’ these days...
HENRY VIII: I always think, I must watch that new jester everyone’s talking about... but then I just end up watching repeats of Johnny Arse
[Show a clearly lowbrow jester, baring his buttocks and shouting “JOHNNY ARRRSE!”]
ADVISOR: We even found an unopened jester-by-post from 1509!
[Show a skeleton in a box with ‘LoveJester’, like the LoveFilm logo, on the side]
ADVISOR: So - let’s cancel some subscriptions:
ADVISOR: NowJester?
HENRY VIII: I’m not missing Game of Jesters
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreict7cb5pwr5izjpxmn3xkzb2ua5pm2nwgjggn5ublamwvmtjifwpa)
![From the 1970's Daily Planet Answer Man column:
"Question: How is it that no one recognizes Oliver Queen and GREEN ARROW as the same man? [signed] Don Brickey."
"Answer: For the same reason no one sees that Clark Kent is SUPERMAN--this is comic books!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nf767uc3ilqjoa6r4kgnnvym/bafkreiciccg63h5s3mr7ggptu62rz7ne3q764eqn5ekfrznayx4htpqqx4)
