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 > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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