“Americans don’t do cynicism, sarcasm or negativity generally,” the journalist Max Davidson wrote, advising Brits how to make it big in the US. “There is an innocence in their outlook that you either love or hate, and if you hate it, you won’t get past first base.”
So news that the US government is looking for a sarcasm detector has already generated cries of: “Yeah right! Good luck with that.”
Heh!
H/T: Unity, via Twitter