Near the bottom of that Times Online (UK) article on the brain’s sarcasm centers: “The research threw little light on the popular national stereotypes of the English as highly sarcastic and the Americans as totally lacking in irony.”

Americans are lacking in irony? Lopez, I know you don’t like to fly, but I think you need to get to Europe and disabuse them of this notion tout-freakin-suite. I’m still bruised from where you cocked an eyebrow at me.