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Danijel Tkalcec (RealThinClient) wrote:

"John Wester [Group W]" wrote: 
A man walks into a bar

Ouch 

LMAO!

[I just imagined someone pinching you - it obviously hurt - while you were trying to tell a joke]

See - newsgroups are the *worst* place to be funny. Even people from the same cultural backgrounds will inadvertently piss each other off instead of making each other laugh. But we try anyway.

In this case the right mental image for the joke "a man walks into a bar" is walking right into the bar top - injuring yourself on the wooden bar. Hence the "Ouch".

When you find yourself insulted, try to convince yourself it was meant as a joke, even if you don't understand it. It helps sometimes. Or I keep telling myself that... :-)

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Brion
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