"oldmadbadger" <oldmadbadger57@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <mmward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" - my English teacher at school
>> "That's ok, I have the lowest form of mind, that's why you're teaching
>> me" - me, shortly before detention.
>> "and the highest form of intelligence "
>>
>> And the lowest form of being a person, as in "personality". No one
>> here has one.
>>
>> G'head, be as sarcastic as you want, we all have that capability. If
>> you're surrounded by only the sarcastic, like here, ...good for you.
>> it's what you want.
>>
>> In a personal life, I think it would be a hurtful, draining. If that's
>> the life you want, you got it here.
>> Again, thanks for the insight. Very telling...
>>
>> Love,
>>
>> Mildred
>
>
> anyway Nexie, what were we talking about before we were rudely
interrupted
> ?
>
> Vicious, Nasty, Bile Spitting Antagonism,
>
> badger XXX
from Kurt Vonnegut's new autobiography "A Man Without a Country"
"Humour is an almost physiological response to fear. Freud said that
humour
is a response to frustration - one of several. A dog, he said, when he
can't get out a gate, will scratch and start digging and making
meaningless
gestures, perhaps growling or whatever, to deal with frustration or
surprise
or fear. And a great deal of laughter is induced by fear ... while we were
we being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our
heads
in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were a duchess in
a
mansion on a cold and rainy night, " I wonder what the poor people are
doing
tonight ". Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it. At least
we were still alive ! He proved it."
The way the world is going to hell in a handcart these days, in my more
romantic moments of self delusion, I like to think that Nexie and myself
and
our ilk are just soldiers in the foxhole laughing at the bombs falling on
our heads ... at least we're still alive !
badger XXX
a veritable instant font of self serving claptrap, just add cheap red wine
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