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Bill's Broadsides
POSTED:Thu, June 12, 2008 @ 2:33PM
See you in the funny papersThey both make me laugh most of the time, which is more than I can say for many comics. They're both a little edgier than most of the strips we run other than Dilbert and Doonesbury (my personal favorites), which means some folks will love them and others will hate them. That's the way it is with all humor: With any given joke, some folks get it, and some folks don't. And because something has to move to make room for the new comics, we'll be publishing the Contract Bridge column as a weekly feature in the Sunday Living section. This might be a disappointment to a few bridge fans among our readership, but I think most readers will appreciate the extra laughs from the new comics. It is the funny page, after all. Here's some brain food on the subject of funny, from www.bartleby.com: "Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever." -- Mark Twain "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." -- James Thurber "A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.' -- George Orwell "Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it." -- Garrison Keillor "Humor is the mask of wisdom." -- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Bill Ackerbauer Assistant City Editor Johnstown native Bill Ackerbauer began his journalism career in 1996 as a reporter with The Leader-Herald. He has been an editor and writer for newspapers in Schenectady, Saratoga Springs and Dover, N.H., and returned to the Leader in 2007. 'Bill's Broadsides' has twice won first-place awards (2007-08 and 2008-09) in the New York State Associated Press writing contest for newspapers in the Leader-Herald's circulation category. Bill teaches English as an adjunct instructor at Fulton-Montgomery Community College, and he has taught journalism courses at the University at Albany. In his spare time, Bill plays folk music on guitar, banjo, fiddle and other traditional instruments. He lives in Johnstown with his wife, Jen, and their two sons, Liam and Carter.
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