OT: is my humor offensive?

[slowair]

Having been the founder and director of a successful multi-hospital entertainment program in the past, I taught my employees one rule of thumb...

IF laughs are at someone's expensive, the cost of the laugh is too high.

With all that is funny in this life, don't make other people pay for your laughs.

And I have absolutely no idea who you are or what posts you are talking about, but if you have to question whether your humor is offensive, it might just be. Think it over. Use your creativity for good.

I'm still kinda new here, and so far, I enjoy Bloomfield and Martin Milner posts. Haven't seen anything truly offensive, but I don't read EVERYTHING.

And remember, sarcasism is disguised anger.

Keep it positive!

Mike

[Bloomfield]

I'm still kinda new here, and so far, I enjoy Bloomfield and Martin Milner posts. Haven't seen anything truly offensive, but I don't read EVERYTHING.

And remember, sarcasism is disguised anger.

Keep it positive!

Mike

Well, live and learn, I'd say. Here I was, thinking sarcasism was misguided spelling.


Hehehe.

[slowair]

See, now that's what I'm talking about.

That was clearly at my expense!!!

I don't think that was funny at all. So I can't spell!

Horrible. My feeling are hurt.

I'm going to eat worms and die.

Note to self...Make voodoo doll of Bloomfield.



PS: That was the joke right?

[Martin Milner]

If laughs are at someone's expensive, the cost of the laugh is too high.

With all that is funny in this life, don't make other people pay for your laughs.

As far as I am concerned, you can have as many cheap laughs at Bloomfield's expense as you like. Go ahead, feel free, laugh it up.

He is more knowledgeable about whistles, music, life and pretty much everything than I, he is a better player (actually, everyone is, but I'm picking on Bloomy here) and he has a better scriptwriter, so take him down a peg or two say I.

p.s. If you e-mail me privately with your address I'll send you some rusty pins.

[jim stone]

I think Dale's joke is based on the fact that
it's illegal in Germany to deny the Holocaust happened.
There is no indication that he dissaproves.

President Clinton was never sued for having an
affair with Monica Lewinski, but for perjury and
obstruction of justice. These are felonies (serious
crimes punishable by over a year in prison) for
which the Clinton administration was prosecuting
people vigorously, including cases where the
perjury was about sexual activity. Perjury is lying
under oath; obstruction of justice includes
hiding evidence during a legal proceeding,
telling potential witnesses against you who work for you
to lie, and so on.

As to the sex scandal itself, I don't think
people would have been so appalled if Clinton
was sneaking off to a motel to meet a lover.
Instead he was having sex
in the workplace with an emotionally disturbed
woman young enough to be his daughter,
whose name he didn't even know for the
first several weeks (ML thought). The level of
exploitation of the young woman was disgusting,
I'd say. Hard to think of it as an 'affair.'

Feminists have insisted that when
there are substantial differences between people
in age and power, one can't justify such behaviour
on the ground that it is 'consensual.' If Ronald
Reagan had been getting blow jobs in the
toilet of the Oval Office from a 23 year old employee,
they would have crucified him--and rightly so. Best

[Lorenzo]

The irony Claudine's response to Dale's joke about some folks in Europe having no sense of humor is not lost on me.

You'll find different kinds of humor everywhere, some shallow, some dry, some sophisticated. The only people I've ever found that have no sense of humor were ectomorphs.

[slowair]

I just might take you up on the rusty pins offer.

Don't know where everyone is from, but have you seen the car insurance commercial where the woman has an online voodoo doll of her cheating boyfriend?

Do you remember what it use to show? The first commercial showed, I forget a pair of scissors of something headed for the voodoo dolls...um...private area.

Now it's something to shrink his head. Not as funny maybe, but why put ideas like that in someone's mind? Aren't people mean enough without giving them ideas.

And cutting out parts of your privates is not the best expeience. I'm four days out from having my prostate removed. I for one, am glad they changed that commercial. I wouldn't even wish this on Bloomfield.

BTW, anyone know where that voodoo doll web site is? Or if they have a tin snip icon?

Mike

[Martin Milner]

http://www.virtual-design.com/demos/voo ... ion=voodoo

[Nanohedron]

The irony Claudine's response to Dale's joke about some folks in Europe having no sense of humor is not lost on me.

You'll find different kinds of humor everywhere, some shallow, some dry, some sophisticated. The only people I've ever found that have no sense of humor were ectomorphs.

Hey!! That's not funny.

[Bloomfield]

I think Dale's joke is based on the fact that
it's illegal in Germany to deny the Holocaust happened.
There is no indication that he dissaproves.

President Clinton was never sued for having an
affair with Monica Lewinski, but for perjury and
obstruction of justice. These are felonies (serious
crimes punishable by over a year in prison) for
which the Clinton administration was prosecuting
people vigorously, including cases where the
perjury was about sexual activity....

Oh, lighten up, Jim. Is this the time for another conservative apologia?

[Bloomfield]

He is more knowledgeable about whistles, music, life and pretty much everything than I, he is a better player (actually, everyone is, but I'm picking on Bloomy here) and he has a better scriptwriter, so take him down a peg or two say I.

Now, now. Martin, don't sell yourself short. You're accent is much funnier than mine.

[Flyingcursor]

I'm changing my vote. Everything is offensive.
I will live in a constant state of offendedness.

[blackhawk]

I had a roommate in college who collected the most vile and tasteless jokes on the planet. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE stuff. The kind of stuff that would be illegal in several countries in Western Europe. That kind of thing. Dale

Thank you Dale. You're so generous. After all nothing is funnier than a completely unjustified prejudice. But since the US army rules the world, who cares about the truth.

Oh lighten up, Claudine. Is this really the time for another liberal apologia?

[Bloomfield]

Oh lighten up, Claudine. Is this really the time for another liberal apologia?

hehehehe.

[jim stone]

Sorry, I have a rotten cold.

I was in Austria and Germany during most
of this business, by the way. The nuts and
bolts of what was going on were sometimes
missed, there as here. I did want to say
what the charges were--I didn't say he
was guilty.

When my colleagues learned
more about his behaviour with ML,
whom they seemed to think was something
more of a traditional mistress or a girlfriend,
they became more disturbed.

When my colleagues intitially
explained to me that Clinton's private
life was his own affair, I almost (but didn't)
responded: 'OK, I'll have sex with students
in my office during office hours, and if you
call me in and say 'My God, what are
you doing!" I'll say: 'Hey, stay
out of my bedroom!'