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Re:The father of modern spam speaks (2002) by munchler on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:28PM (#37804744)
Side note, but sentences like these slay me:

    "[It] qualified as an unqualified success."
    "[He] was disbarred from practicing law."
Whoever wrote this article was an unintentional genius.
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Re:The father of modern spam speaks (2002) by constantly on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:34PM (#37805756)
The first one is kinda interesting. I don’t get the humor in the phrasing of the second though. Can you explain?
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Re:The father of modern spam speaks (2002) by munchler on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:40PM (#37805795)
It's an unintentional pun on the word "bar". You can be disbarred, which means expelled from the (legal) bar. Or you can be barred (prevented) from practicing law. But "disbarred from practicing law" is either redundant or double-negative nonsense, depending on how you read the pun.
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Re:The father of modern spam speaks (2002) by thewakalix on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:36PM (#37805762)
"He was disbarred" already means what they want to say.
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