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In the same deceptive spirit, Fischer claims that a similar calculation would indicate that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids, or that they never goof off on the golf course--even though he makes no attempt to supply that calculation.
Not surprisingly, a slew of bad reviews for this bottom-feeding comedy about a fish tank cleaner who falls into the gigolo business by accident: "Among devotees of comedy, Deuce Bigalow is for the undemanding" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Some go so far as to insult the cast, calling star Rob Schneider "a runty fellow of no particular talent" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). One reviewer pipes up in the movie's defense, calling Deuce "an hour-and-a-half goof on kinky sex, bathroom humor and inner happiness … a considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other SNL alums" (which is not saying much) and that it's "funnier than it deserves to be, not to mention rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out more about Rob Schneider.)
Say it's all a goof.
After all, such calculations would prove that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids or pretty women, that they never goof off on the golf course and that they never waste money in general, because all these things would reduce their market performance.
In this case, for instance, the reader is left wondering what horrible goof is being suppressed, when actually it's just that congressman Stevens of Pennsylvania was mistakenly described as a senator from Massachusetts.
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