10-10-2005, 10:41 PM
Occhidiangela,Oct 10 2005, 06:28 PM Wrote:Any1, your reaction to Mithy's joke, in re taste thresholds, is baseless. His joke is a typical example of the combined humorous devices of free association and discontinuous seque. This style is very common these days. His joke is, NFL season being in process, very appropriate and a wryly ironic lampoon of what people tend to focus on. Nothing is too serious to try to lighten with laughter. Nothing. I've been laughing at death for most of my adult life.
Laughter, as Heinlein so clearly points out in Stranger in a Strange land, is one of our ways of dealing with empathetic pain.
Had you not acknowledged that you are sure Mithy is kidding, I'd have had to play a Bill Maher "Get Over Yourself" card, so thanks at least for that. :D
Occhi
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Well "baseless" is a matter of opinion. It doesn't hurt to be a little more sensitive, since people from all over read this board. I hate to think someone (member or guest) from India or Pakistan, with some personal stake in the situation, reading this and thinking we're trivializing such a tragedy (again I know Mithrandir is not doing so). Sometimes appearances are everything. This brand of humor wouldn't have gone off as well in the aftermath of Katrina, don't you think?
Signature? What do you mean?