Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Hey!
--- "Zach Collins (Siege)" <zcollins_at_seidata.com> wrote:
> > Humour is someone else's misfortune, the more
> unforunate,
> > the funnier. This bunny is about to be toast and has
> >no way of saving itself, so amusing in that regard.
>
> I didn't think much of Woody Woodpecker, either.
Can't say that Woody Woodpecker did much for me either -
somehow 'too manic' and felt 'mean', bit like watching Mr
Bean. Cringe humour, if you will.
There seems to be a line, that varies for everyone, between
funny and just cruel. I remember commenting on a replay of
the September 11 WTC incident where people were waving from
the upper windows. I snickered as I said "Waving good bye,
cos its the last thing you're going to do!" and a
colleague said "That's not funny." I didn't debate it with
them (they were not the kind of person you could reason
with), but irrespective of the tragedy, the humor of their
misfortune in the observation is still there.
I've been smashed up a few times as the result of vehicle
accidents. Spending a week in hospital is no fun and
learning to walk again was months of 'painful
entertainment', but I can still see the humour when a
friend who witnessed one of the accidents said "It looked
friggin' funny when you went flying over the handlebars and
ploughed head first into the ground..." From his
perspective, I'm sure it would have been; my misforturne
but his humour. Pity he didn't have a camera so I could
have had a retrospective laught too - maybe even funniest
home video... oh well...
Let's face it; funniest home videos wouldn't rate so well
on TV if people didn't find others hurting themselves to be
highly entertaining! I guy slips off his bike and poles
himself on the top bar - not comfortable by any stretch of
the imagination, but you can hear the audience groan in
sympathy and chuckle at the fellow's bad luck.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, keep the dirty side down!
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Received on Thu Sep 02 2004 - 16:50:17 CDT
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