Re: For the group members from Texas


"Bourne Identity" <siriusly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:42 -0400, "madgardener" <madgard@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >it's always interesting to see there are those who look at death as
> >something to be poked at. as for that being a "nice kitty" yer not
getting
> >the outraged response from me you want. I look at a dead animal as anyone
> >who sees lots of them smashed into the road does. Everything eventually
> >dies. To exploit the images and try and make them worth seeing is
debatable.
> >My children faced normal life and death moments but despite my reality
> >raising of them, my oldest son was 33 before he buried his first cat
> >himself. I had always done it. Don't know why, just did.
>
> Don't you see the contradiction you just made?

that I wasn't going to react shocked by the morbid image "Douggie troll"
posted of the dead cat? I meant what I said. I don't poke fun at images of
dead animals, nor do I find the pictures particularly disturbing. They're
dead animals. I don't gross out easily. Now to set you and the others who
think I'm some sort of closet freak out, I read and enjoyed the sick humor
of Mad magazine. I also enjoyed the crass jokes and comics of biker rags
when I was hanging out with bikers. I have the gross one about Sleeze and
his old lady's tampoons on my refridgerator out of sight of the
grandkids..............

How am I contradicting myself V? "Doug" posted that picture and made the he
he he he remark about the picture of the nice kitty and I just responded
that he was NOT going to gross me out, freak me out or outrage me. I also
explained that I've dealt realistically with death for my whole life. If
you'd humor me, tell me where I was contradicting myself. I don't see it. I
could just be naturally stoned, or my new glasses are not doing me well
(they're seriously off and I can't get them fixed until Monday and even then
it will be another frelling 10 days!)

So, it was okay to
> poke fun at a dead animal who died a horrible death (rhetorically for
> the joke) but a visual is something where you draw the line on funny.
> So, the point is we all do have our levels.

I saw the gross twist of humor at the cat slipping into the car and not
being discovered until it swelled up and popped inside the hot car. I don't
condone someone leaving a child or animal in a closed and locked vehicle in
warm or hot weather for exactly that reason. It wouldn't have been remotely
funny if he'd crossed the line of even sick jokes and said he had left his
kid in the car........I didn't laugh at the proverbial cat swelling up and
exploding, but the idea of this poor smuck experiencing his first true
summer in Texas and all the "murphey's law" unfortunate incidents occuring
was the whole point of the freaking joke. Would it have been funny if his
kid's pet snake had slipped into the car and exploded while he was at work?
The "joke" was geared for the idea that even after he had to clean out his
car interior, when the windows blew out, it still smelled like kibbles and
shit..........it's a joke, and like Loony Tunes and Merry Melodies which I
adored, the injuries weren't real. In the making of this joke no live or
real animals were harmed.

I mean, hell V, I love the 3 Stoogies. Love the slapping, blowing up, and
Vaudville angle of humor. The whole idea is to loosen and lighten up. When
Wiley Coyote got his ass blown to shit, we laughed because it was funny and
we knew it wasn't real..........same thing with jokes. Life's too short to
be taken so seriously!

maddie


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