this Bev Perdue chick isn’t very good at sarcasm…
Thursday, 29. September 2011
South Carolina’s Governor is named Bev Perdue – I know, stupid name, right? – and apparently she doesn’t know how to deliver sarcasm. There’s a certain inflection one must present when saying something with the intent of being sarcastic. When asked about how she would fix the economy, she said that they should perhaps suspend Congressional elections for two years and give them a free pass during that time, from this story:
“My point was one of sarcasm,” Perdue told reporters in Thomasville. “We really just need to encourage our leaders who are elected to work together and solve America’s problems.”
I’ve heard sarcasm once or twice, and I’ve even been known to engage in such behavior on occasion; I listened to the audio clip of this, and it really doesn’t sound like any form of sarcasm that I’m accustomed to. But this is The South, and maybe that’s how they do sarcasm there – when someone finishes speaking, the people listening go through everything that person said line-by-line asking them if that was sarcasm or not. That sounds tedious, The South is weird.
If you want to hear her:
From this website.
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