10-10-2005, 06:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2005, 06:32 PM by Occhidiangela.)
Any1,Oct 9 2005, 04:02 PM Wrote:Â Mithrandir,
I know you're kidding, but your comment is probably pushing the bounds of good taste.
[right][snapback]91468[/snapback][/right]
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
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete