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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."
Excellent. It reminds me of Spike Milligan's war memoirs. It's been a
while since I read them, but the most memorable (mis)quote for me was
Spike's take on one of his oppo's diary entries whilst serving in India
(I think) -
" 'I saw a man squatting down in the middle of the street in the middle
of the day, answering a call of nature, without comment' - what did he
expect him to say? "Ole!" ?"
Bless you Spike.
> 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 !
Shhhh! Don't mention the ilk. They're endangered and apparently
harvesting antlers for homeopathic..ahem...remedies is illegal. If it
wasn't for those pesky Greenpeace kids, I would've got away with it.
Love the idea of laughing my tits off in a foxhole, by the way. What a
mind**** for anyone who heard it! Of course, if you were an officer, I'd
have to shoot you in the back when we got the order to go over the top.
Sorry and all that, but I have "a problem with authority" apparently. I
can't see it myself; I have no problem with authority, I just haven't
met anyone yet that I would grant authority over me.
I don't know if you've seen the various "problem teens get sent to some
brainwa****ng camp in the middle of nowhere" programmes on TV, but what
kind of rebels are these kids supposed to be? Haven't they heard of
hunger strike? Kids round our way would have made a weapon and left a
trail of bodies if sent to one of those places. But no, they just whine
and cry and knuckle under. The only kid I had any respect for was the
little **** who played the game and then just went back to nicking cars
and selling drugs when he got home, and that's not good, big or clever.
I blame TV and Playstation. If kids didn't have violent films and games
they'd have no outlet for their teenage angst and would have to be
proper bastards like we had in the good old days. It's only a matter of
time before kids in Amish communities progress beyond drugs and teenage
pregnancy to escape and go on a mad rampage of zip-using murder.
I know this isn't true, but I'll say it anyway and pretend I heard it
from a friend of my cousin's boyfiend's sister, in the true style of
urban myths and the hope that it will become fact by virtue of common
knowledge - "Charles Manson was an Amish lay preacher who was driven
insane by his inability to use hooks-and-eyes on his clothing and a
chemical imbalance which could have been rectified by exposure to low
levels of radiation such as those emitted by televisions".
Let's see how long that takes to do the rounds. My record so far is an
appallingly bad joke that I made up when I was 14, and was repeated to
me in a pub 17 years later. The sad thing was, it was so bad I didn't
want to claim responsibility for it. That, and the reasonable
possibility that someone else also made it up.
In the interest of science, see if you've heard it (and I apologise
whole-heartedly for this)...
Q: How do you get 4 Anytown* girls on a stool?
A: Turn it upside-down.
*insert local sleazy area here
> badger XXX
> a veritable instant font of self serving claptrap, just add cheap red
wine
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