Re: OT:Thanksgiving


Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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HeyBub <heybub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete Dashwood wrote:
****> Well, Peter, at least he has a sense of humour... :-)

Paranoics, Manic-Depressives, and democrats were sent forth to work
their
insults upon the masses.


We take it, then, that Democrats are all paranoics and/or
manic-depressives?

***> I think it was a joke... (hope so :-)). Anyway, it made me smile...

Republicans have to rely on the Roe Effect, but that takes generations.

No Republican woman ever has had or ever will have an abortion?


Whatever else HeyBub may be, he has demonstrated through long time posts
here that he is not venomous. In fact, some of his posts are the most
entertaining I find here.

I think this is a case where you took it a bit too literally, Peter.


Concerning the above remarks, originally made by Heybub, and approved by P.
Dashwood:

I find it significant that Heybub thought it necessary to claim he was
joking. If he'd been making fun of HIMSELF I might have found it so, too,
but he wasn't. If his entire posting is meant to be funny, I can't find a
single line in it that comes across as anything but nasty.

There's a certain kind of personality that finds offensive things funny if
they are directed at someone else. Turn the remarks against them and their
best response is a wounded plea: I just meant it as a joke. Such persons
find bullying and actual abuse amusing if it's aimed at people or groups
that they don't like.

I'll remind everybody that a while ago I was roundly panned in this
newsgroup for suggesting that most humour consists of MAKING FUN of someone
else. Heybub's remarks, if intended that way, make a classic example.

Perhaps you gents could analyze the original posting and tell me and other
joking-challenged persons which sentences are meant to be funny and which
are meant to be factual.

I am indeed from Canada; we regard the US as a demented older uncle. We
shudder at the ignorance of its leadership. We console ourselves with the
thought that said leadership reflects its contituents.

PL


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