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> "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"
oh dear, double posting again, like a complete amateur
>
> "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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