--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Scrapper Black Dragon
<scrapperbd_at_y...> wrote:
>
> --- "Zach Collins (Siege)" <zcollins_at_s...> 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!
Um, being hurt in an accident and recovering is one thing, but being
about to be burned alive isn't exactly humorous in my book. Would
you laugh at the people going into the Nazi death camps?
Received on Sun Sep 05 2004 - 14:37:46 CDT