On hearing of the closure of his local airport, the 27-year-old had sent out a facetious tweet to his 600 followers that mentioned "blowing the airport sky high!"

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The best thing about Miami is how close it is to the rest of the US. That is only a slightly facetious statement.

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His most widely quoted passage is his facetious petition to the French parliament on behalf of the French candle makers seeking passage of a law requiring the closing of all blinds, shutters etc.

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As both a long-time resident of the Harvard Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a 1967 graduate of Harvard Law School, this has been my semi-facetious but all-too-true mantra criticizing the sorry state of free speech and free thought at Harvard.

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