Re: For the group members from Texas

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:47:18 -0400, "madgardener" <madgard@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


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>it seems that everyone nowdays is so uptight, literal and politically
>correct and so condesending about humor that its impossible to even share a
>smile. They forget about the "sick" humor of Mad magazine. I just watched
>the 30th anniversary of Blazing Saddles and despite that it's still
>hilarious, and it broke grounds with the humor of it, I know that now, 30
>years later, there would be some outraged people who wouldn't think the
>ethnic jokes were funny in the least. Or that Mongo slugging the horse was
>humorous at all. And the sad thing is, the racial humor was written by
>Richard Pryor back then in 1974. If we get to be so serious we can't take a
>joke, we're not going to last much longer. We are the only species that
>laughs..........and I'm not talking about being mean, I'm talking about
>being able to laugh at yourself and whomever you represent......and get past
>it.


Marilyn, I'm 50 years old and I didn't laugh back then at that movie.
The one part I did laugh hysterically at was the farting. I also
didn't laugh at the dead horse in Animal House and that was WAY before
political correctness. So, please don't include the dislike of animal
torture being funny for this example.

>The Texas joke was a joke. Meant to be looked at humorously. Just because
>one person took the cat exploding in the car and responded in the way he did
>doesn't mean he even meant it. He's trying to get the responses from those
>who would be outraged.

Huh?

>I'm sure Tom never intended on getting flamed by a simple joke that ran
>seven years ago.......................(I remember that joke vividly, I
>laughed myself almost wet and it's still good)

Who flamed him? All I said was I thought it was good till I got to
the cat part. I happen to be friends with Tom Kan Pa. Anyone who can
call their grandson Mat The W is okay by me.

>Anyone thinking that Tom posted that joke to upset people regarding the cat
>part is just too literal and sensitive about this. Yes, I know animals
>suffer every day at the hands of idiots. I also know there are too many rats
>in the maze on this planet at the moment and know Mom Nature will eliminate
>the excess in anyway she can like she has always done in millions of years
>past.
>
>It doesn't keep me awake at night. It's just part of life.
>
>When did everyone get so serious and judgemental?
>
>At least Sue and Junkyard cat liked it and saw it as a joke...............(I
>keep hearing Foghorn Leghorn saying to Chicken Hawk, "It's a JOKE
>son!!!!!!!!!!)

So because I didn't laugh at that part I'm what? I am a Howard Stern
fan for *** sake. I know how to laugh. I'm also an animal lover and
it definitely supercedes the "humor" about leaving a cat in a hot car
till it explodes. It's not funny. Not to me. Sorry, but I think I'm
being judged now, not the other way around.

v

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