A thousand Pardons

[Carl Meyer]

Gosh! A thousand pardons.  Even Bill Clinton couldn't match that.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David M. Porritt" <dm.porritt@verizon.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: A thousand Pardons


> Richard:
> 
> A "joke" is something that is funny.  An appropriate joke is one that
> is funny to the whole group.  Your joke would have been very
> appropriate at the Democratic National Convention as that group would
> have agreed with you (mostly) and laughed with you.  That joke would
> not have been funny at the Republican National Convention, and you
> would have experienced lots of people who didn't "understand" your
> humor.
> 
> This group is a mixture of both.  You are certainly intelligent
> enough to realize that there are people who hold opposite views from
> yourself, and hold them as dearly as you hold yours.  Making jokes
> that you know will offend half of the list is just poor taste.
> Accusing the offended ones of not having a sense of humor is also
> poor taste.  
> 
> dave
> 
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> 
> On 1/19/2003 at 2:11 PM Richard Brekne wrote:
> 
> >List
> >
> >I was under the impression that grown up humans could take a simple
> joke
> >and leave it at that, or at the very least air any beef one has with
> a
> >private person in private.
> >
> >I suppose I should have not posted that last Joke. Not so much
> because
> >it was or wasnt humorous to whom ever, but because obviously too
> many
> >simply cant handle a joke.
> >
> >Odd too when it comes to it, as joking around seems to be one of the
> >favorite pastimes of every major contributor to this list.  About
> the
> >only truely nocturn contributers are those who only post rarely, and
> >they are always on topic. The Don Maninos and Horace Greelys and
> some
> >others.
> >
> >Unfortunatly... this amount of public people bashing ( and it has by
> no
> >means been exclusive to the topic of politics throught my time here)
> has
> >caused several valued minds to leave our group. And more will
> follow. If
> >that is what is desired.... then these continuing blowouts over
> >basically nothing will do the trick.
> >
> >Is that what we want ?
> >
> >For my part.... well you all know where I stand. I can go along with
> >strictly on topic stuff... but I see no point in not being social as
> >long as thats what everyone else is doing.   Still, as I have said
> on a
> >many an occasion in the context of many a topic.... there is no
> reason
> >to take discussions into the personal areana... and every reason not
> to.
> >
> >Anyways... the Thousand Pardons bit is for not understanding how
> >incapable so many seem to be of not doing just that. I still dont
> >understand it... but I suppose I can recognize it.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >--
> >Richard Brekne
> >RPT, N.P.T.F.
> >UiB, Bergen, Norway
> >mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> >
> >
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> David M. Porritt
> dporritt@mail.smu.edu
> Meadows School of the Arts
> Southern Methodist University
> Dallas, TX 75275
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