Should one find oneself in a social situation, at Work or at "Party", that demands the performative ritual of humor-recitation, the following bit (which will be, on average of contemporary Urban American, considered "humorous" by 20%, "distasteful" by 15%, and not understood by 65% [thus providing opportunity for demonstration of erudition in cultural matters], margin of error +/- 5%) can be recounted with positive overall effect:
A. Did you hear what happened to Hunter S. Thompson?
B. (answers may vary)
A. Well, he went the "Hemming" way.
(variant: "He decided to be 'Kurt' with life.")
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