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This page satirizes two distinct targets: **"The Polite Art of Argument"** is a humorous dialogue cataloging the evasive phrases people use in debate—endless qualifications ("It's a curious fact, but..."), deflections ("It all depends on how..."), and polite disagreements that avoid actual substance. It mocks how civilized discourse becomes circular verbal dancing. **"I Interview Fritz Frosch"** parodies celebrity journalism and the absurdity of modern interviewing. The unnamed interviewer pursues Frosch (a sausage manufacturer) persistently, then asks him an utterly ridiculous question: what effect will his sausage output have on German war reparations? The text suggests Frosch is treated as some profound figure despite being unremarkable in appearance. The joke—Frosch's unexpected laughter—mocks both the interviewer's pretentious approach and the notion that industrial figures are geniuses worthy of breathless coverage. Both pieces satirize 1920s American manners and media.

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