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The form of pseudo-art termed 'installation' - which at best expensively and elaborately instantiates some momentarily-diverting shock or notion; has led to the permament erection or construction of The Lame Joke as a feature of modern life.

An entity which is mildly-amusing on first viewing is made into something which must be viewed hundreds of times, with exponentially increasing weariness and irritation.

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Ladies and Gentlemen I present:

The Lame British Coins-of-the-Realm Joke

[Image][see also http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/money-as-measure-of-cultural-decline.html ]

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The Lame Sculpture Joke

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The Lame Collapsing Fence Joke


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