Sure it was hyperbolic, but at the time it was all telebision &/or sleeping for us in the world beyond the no horizon-in-sight endless grind & humiliation of wage-slaving.
Anyway, we deadpanned it well enough for her jaw to drop appreciably. Actually shocked, not mere épater les bourgeois, "Ha-ha, you so crazy, Bouff," shocking, but "He could mean that, WTF?" shocking. Someone else should have been there too.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is probably not joking, unless the usual "Is this anything but the longest running performance art bit in recorded history?" (Or, as the old school knew it, a hoax.) is applied.
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there are still Ayatollahs?
Holy crap, now I am having flashbacks....
TSOP Ed. Sez:
The official "successful" band of Just Another Blog™, them Angry Samoans, used to have a little ditty entitled "Execute The Hostages, sung to a tune originally called "Cum Shot."
It is nostalgic.
Hippie.
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