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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:07 PM
Original message
What's black and white, black and white, black and white, etc.?
A nun rolling down the stairs.

What's black and white and laughs?

The nun that pushed her.



no babies were injured in the making of this post
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:08 PM
Response to Original message
1. What's next, Polack jokes?
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 09:09 PM by Padraig18
:eyes:
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:09 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Not at all
the nun was Polish, if that helps.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:58 PM
Response to Reply #1
56. Speaking of ethnic jokes
I got a good Irish joke for you Paddy. What's the difference between and Irish wedding and an Irish wake?
(I spent 18 months in Dublin and the Irish loved this joke.)
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:24 PM
Response to Reply #1
86. Oy! Leave Jackson Pollock out of this!!
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 10:24 PM by HypnoToad
:crazy:

:evilgrin:
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #1
103. Lighten up man!
damn!
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:09 PM
Response to Original message
2. Are you TRYING to get banned?
lol please stop, we don't want you to be sent to the cornfields.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. banned?
for jokes in the lounge? Is there an army of pissed-off nuns alerting on me?
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:12 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. One of the reason people can be banned for is...
... repeated rule violations, resulting in locked posts.

*cough, cough*
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:13 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. Why are you coughing?
I never touched your balls.

It was a light-hearted attempt at humor.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:13 PM
Response to Reply #4
6. Dead babies + pushing nuns downstairs =
BANISHMENT a POSSIBILITY.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:13 PM
Response to Reply #6
8. We have a winner!
*nod*
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:15 PM
Response to Reply #8
10. Padraig
This was a joke I heard as a little girl, more than 35 years ago. Is it REALLY grounds for banishment?
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:17 PM
Response to Reply #10
12. Post a few more, and maybe you'll get the answer.
Personally, I wouldn't, but that's just me...
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:18 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. should I feel threatened?
Do you have some sort of "in" with the powers-that-be?
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:20 PM
Response to Reply #14
18. No.
I just have a very good understanding of the rules at DU.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:23 PM
Response to Reply #18
23. then
I'm sure you'll be so kind as to direct me to the rule against telling nun jokes.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:25 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. My pleasure.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:26 PM
Response to Reply #26
29. hrmm....
scanned it with my own eyes and even used a text search, and I'll be damned (does that offend you) if I couldn't find the word "nun" anywhere in there.

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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. I suppose so...
I saw other dead-baby jokes here, and those posters are presumably still among the living. I was trying to tweak the internet-nannies, and it seems to have worked.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:16 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. Just try and have some fun...
without posting stuff that could potentially really offend someone or piss them off or be seriously misinterpreted. :)
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:17 PM
Response to Reply #11
13. I haven't been here too long
but one thing I've learned is that somebody will take offense to damn near anything.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:19 PM
Response to Reply #13
15. That's true too.
People offend easy, that's just a rule. :)
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:19 PM
Response to Reply #15
17. Well
I heartily apologize to any injured nuns who are reading this thread.

Sisters, you're OK in my book.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:19 PM
Response to Reply #13
16. It's not as if you made a yo mama joke.
Dead babies just are NOT funny. :wtf:
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:21 PM
Response to Reply #16
19. But that's the beauty of humor
EVERYTHING can be made funny. It's all about the unexpected. Dead baby jokes are funny precisely BECAUSE people consider the topic taboo. That's why most comedians use sex, vulgarity, death, and other topics not normally discussed.

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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:22 PM
Response to Reply #19
20. Woody Allen made a joke about the Holocaust in 'Deconstructing Harry'
Pretty shocking, actually.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:22 PM
Response to Reply #19
21. Sorry, that's bullshit.
Maybe you could ask admin if you can start a dead baby jokes DU group? :eyes:
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:24 PM
Response to Reply #21
25. No
I don't think it requires a group. The lounge will do fine. Thanks for your concern, though.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:25 PM
Response to Reply #25
27. Whatever blows your skirt up.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:39 PM
Response to Reply #19
38. Dead baby jokes are not funny.
I have a pretty warped sense of humor. But, there are limits. There are things that simply aren't funny, no matter how you look at them. Joking about them on the lounge goes beyond bad taste and judgment. People don't just consider the topic taboo. There is nothing pleasant, happy, or positive about the image of dead babies. No irony there. That isn't "taboo". That's life.

Besides, there isn't anything remotely witty or intelligent about them, either. There are some jokes that are offensive, and insensitive, but that are damn funny. I would never post them here, but anyway. Nothing intelligent or witty about a dead baby joke. Nothing. And anyone who would post them, let alone tell them, is just a crass boob.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:40 PM
Response to Reply #38
40. Well said!
Wish I had been able to say it so well. :)
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #38
44. The funny thing about funny
is that what YOU think is funny isn't universal. What *I* think is funny isn't universal.

If you think sensitive topics can't ever be funny, you've never heard Lenny Bruce or George Carlin or even Jonathan Swift. Eating the Irish... it still cracks me up. But the Irish probably think it's not funny.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:52 PM
Response to Reply #44
48. You're right.
I like Lenny Bruce, and George Carlin, et al. Because they're funny. There is actually some wit and intelligence in there somewhere. And funny is not a universal thing. But unfunny is. There is nothing funny about a dead baby. Simply saying so doesn't make it so. Saying that red is blue doesn't make it blue. Where's the wit?

There is shock factor. But anyone with two brain cells and the ability to communicate can shock someone. No talent in that, whatsoever. No real humor. Just a "I don't give a fuck what other people think. I'll make shocking 'jokes'. Dead baby! Dead baby! See how edgy I am! Look at me!" It's pathetically disgusting, actually.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:53 PM
Response to Reply #48
49. and yet
I'm sure there are people who think eating the Irish could never be funny, simply because it's offensive.

And yet it's funny.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:56 PM
Response to Reply #49
54. But, again
There is some wit involved, there. You're missing that whole point, I think.

The only reason to tell a dead baby joke isn't for social commentary. It isn't to point out any flaws in ourselves, in humanity, or to point out absurdities. It's just to shock. Dead babies is a sad part of life that is unavoidable. No human frailties or foibles to mock there. It just is. No wit. No intelligence. Just crass shock value.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #54
111. I see
so I'm just not funny ENOUGH. I'll try to do better in the future.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:46 PM
Response to Reply #111
115. Nope... you are not funny, PERIOD. n/t
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:50 PM
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122. Deleted message
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
 
BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #122
140. I hear they have creams for those annoying itches...
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 11:14 PM by BlueFlu
... but unfortunately, not for those annoying... well, let's just say it rhymes with "itches"... and isn't "witches"...
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:39 PM
Response to Reply #16
39. DON'T BE TALKIN BOUT MY MAMA
YOU !@#$%^&*( !!!
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:32 PM
Response to Reply #9
34. If you hadn't already been about the dead baby jokes
perhaps this wouldn't have drawn the attention it has.

I don't find the nun joke offensive in the least. But, your attempt at making some kind of point is a little transparent. And I think your baby jokes went beyond offensive. I don't care if your banned or not. I just don't see what is so wrong with calling people out when they tell "jokes" that go beyond the beyond. I guess that means I'm not one of the kook kids. Oh well.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:00 PM
Response to Reply #34
60. And yet
downthread, you admitted to laughing at a Helen Keller joke.

See my point?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:03 PM
Response to Reply #60
64. Nope
Those jokes actually had some humor to them, even if they were wrong. Because my point isn't that you should never make bad or tastelss jokes. Okay?

Got any knee slapping Tsunami victim jokes up your sleeve? That should garner you quite the following here in the lounge. Why don't you give those a whirl. They will deserve their own thread, of course.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:07 PM
Response to Reply #64
67. Are you serious?
Helen Keller jokes are OK, but dead baby jokes are out of bounds?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:14 PM
Response to Reply #67
72. Not. My. Point.
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 10:14 PM by Pithlet
Helen Keller jokes are not "okay". But, they're funny. I can understand why someone would think otherwise and be offended. Baby jokes are not "okay". They're also not funny. There's nothing about the situation of a dead baby that is even remotely unexpected, or ironic, or any of the things that makes humor what it is, even if it is tasteless.

Come one. If it is funny, surely you can defend it with arguments other than "humor isn't universal". Surely you can tell me what is so unexpected, or ironic, or topical about a dead baby? Come on. Let's hear it.

Besides, if I told a Hellen Keller joke, and someone was offended, I'd have the good sense to know why, and knock it off.

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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #72
73. You're funnier than any Helen Keller joke I've heard
you honestly don't see the irony? You can laugh at a blind/deaf woman, but a dead baby is out of bounds, and you REALLY see a dividing line between the two?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:21 PM
Response to Reply #73
80. The HK jokes
at least have the minimal value of making ironic comment about living with a disability. The dead baby jokes don't even have that bare minimum irony. If it was a dead baby joke involving bad babysitters, for example, then okay, MAYBE you could make that argument. But jokes along the lines of "What do you call a dead baby in a pool..." have bugger all to do with anything other than dead babies.

But, like I said. Go ahead with the baby jokes, if corpses of small children tickle you so much. Just expect to face some distaste is all. And not be so shocked about it when it happens. I mean, really. Duh.

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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:27 PM
Response to Reply #80
91. I'm sorry
but your distinction is meaningless to me. You think it's OK to laugh at a deaf/blind woman who was a wonderful, intelligent, thinker who overcame unbelievable obstacles, but laughing at a non-identifiable baby is out of bounds.

I sincerely do not see the distinction.

ANYTHING can be funny. Being offended by the joke does not detract from its humor. In fact, all the best humor is predicated on offense. Ever heard Richard Pryor?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:30 PM
Response to Reply #91
95. Okay
ANything can be funny? Okay. What is 1+1? 2. 2! Get it? hahahahahaha.

But, seriously. You still haven't answerd my questions as to why dead corpses of little children are so funny. What, exactly, makes it funny?
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:33 PM
Response to Reply #95
100. I will be happy to explain...
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 10:34 PM by Fiona
it shocks peoples' sense of propriety. That's funny.

Now explain to me why mocking a deaf/blind humanitarian is funny, but mocking a non-identified, non-existent neonate can never be funny.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #100
102. She has said several times that it WASN't funny.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #102
107. No
she admitted to laughing out loud at a Helen Keller joke.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:42 PM
Response to Reply #107
108. Yes, but what I did NOT do
was act all shocked and befuddled when other people didn't find it funny.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:44 PM
Response to Reply #108
112. And, just to clarify things
What I found most amusing about the HK jokes wasn't the jokes themselves, but the way they were interjected into this thread. While I do maintain that there IS a difference between those jokes and your super-hiLARious dead baby jokes, it isn't a very big one.

I certainly would't go around a party telling either, and expect everyone to admire me for my sparkling wit, let's just put it that way.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:39 PM
Response to Reply #100
106. Sense of propriety?
You mean, they shouldn't feel badly about a dead baby? Or, do admit that it isn't so much funny as it is shocking. Which was my whole point. It is shocking, but it isn't funny, because people ARE supposed to feel badly aboud dead children. See? No funny.

So, people confronting the fact that dead babies make them sad or uncomfortable is rife for mining material? Again, ask anyone who lost a child. I'm sure they'll disabuse you of that notion.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:45 PM
Response to Reply #106
114. I think the parent
of a deaf/blind child would also not find humor in a Helen Keller joke. And yet you laughed.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:47 PM
Response to Reply #114
116. Probably not
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 10:47 PM by Pithlet
But, I woldn't tell it to them, now, would I?

In fact, I've NEVER told one in my entire life. I'm 0 for 0, unlike some other people in this thread.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #116
119. well that's clear...
laughing at such a joke is acceptable, but telling one is not. Thank you for delineating it.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #119
121. I already clarified
that I wasn't laughing at the joke, but at the fact it was interjected the way it was. Please, do try to keep up.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:52 PM
Response to Reply #121
123. your lines
are getting muddier and muddier.

So a joke about a deaf/blind humanitarian are ONLY funny in a certain context. And a joke about a non-identified non-specific dead baby is NEVER funny.

I look forward to your further delineation, so I'll know what's funny and what's not.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:54 PM
Response to Reply #123
127. No
My whole point. Is dead baby jokes aren't funny. That's all it really has been. Keep on with your wit. I'm sure there's a market for it somewhere. Dead babies! Wahoo!!!!! There aren't people here reading this who've lost children, but if there are, who cares? You're hilarious! That is all that matters.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:47 PM
Response to Reply #106
117. I get it...
we should laugh at deaf/blind children but not dead ones. It all makes sense now.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #117
120. Wong!
Try again.

By the way, that friend I was talking about? Is a DU member. Feel better now?
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:53 PM
Response to Reply #120
125. yeah
I feel better.

I'm positively giddy.

See? Humor!
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:55 PM
Response to Reply #125
128. Oh, you're so witty!
I was so naive to think I could go up against you. My, but have I learned my lesson.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:00 PM
Response to Reply #128
132. Well I'm sorry it was so painful
but it's never easy to learn the distinction between laughing at deaf/blind humanitarians and dead babies. It's a very fine line, and discovering exactly where it's drawn can be painful.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:02 PM
Response to Reply #132
134. There is no fucking line.
And I'm done with you. I tell you that there is actually a DUer here who lost a child, and you chose to mock that. You are the lowest of the low. I thought you were just clueless. But, I was wrong. You really are vile.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:10 PM
Response to Reply #134
136. And what
if I told you a DUer had a blind/deaf child? Would you be abjectly apologetic about your prior laughing?

No, you wouldn't.

I wouldn't laugh in the face of a parent who lost a child. You're presuming that, and it's bullshit. You're saying some things are SO awful they can never be the subject of humor. And yet, I've already pointed out that racism, the holocaust, sexism, homophobia, etc. are ALL fodder for laughs.

If Mel Brooks can get a laugh out of the holocaust, it puts the lie to the idea that some things are out of bounds when it comes to humor.

Your feigned offense means nothing to me. I should laugh WITH you up to the Helen Keller level, but then back off at the dead baby level? Sorry, you don't get to decide that.

You can claim offense, but you can't legitimately claim what's funny and what's not. Otherwise, there wouldn't be thousands of dead baby jokes out there. Offense and humor are two very different realms.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #136
137. Yes, I would
If I had laughed at that joke, and if I had unwittingly done so in front of one. I'm not an asshole.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:15 PM
Response to Reply #137
141. and neither am I
If I told a dead baby joke in front of a parent who had just lost a child (which I wouldn't do), I'd apologize and do all I could to alleviate the awkward situation.

You seem to think I LIKE dead babies because I told a joke about them. That's a silly misconception.

For the record - I don't like dead babies. I hope all babies live.

Feel better, Pithlet?

Also, for the record, I want ALL chickens to cross the road safely.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:17 PM
Response to Reply #141
142. You did.
You're on an open forum. Someone who lost a baby very likely saw it. And when I pointed that out, you posted to someone else "Are you the parent who lost the baby-nun?"

You did do it. I never said you liked dead babies. I said your jokes were unfunny. Yes, I know, how dare I?
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:23 PM
Response to Reply #4
24. Sure seems like someone is desperately seeking attention...
even if it is negative attention. Kinda like that screaming kid that seems to be at the back of every airplane I have the misfortune to have to fly in.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:26 PM
Response to Reply #24
30. Yes I crave attention...
and you can spoil my whole YEAR by putting me on ignore. Please don't!!! It'll hurt me EVER so much!
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:22 PM
Response to Original message
22. Ha! Honest to GAWD I was on the phone with another DUer lamenting
the death of the dead baby joke thread, and she said there ought to be a nun joke thread!

Un-friggin-canny!

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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:25 PM
Response to Reply #22
28. heehee!
I am the goddess of uncanniness.
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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:29 PM
Response to Reply #28
31. A goddess? LOL
Do your parents know that you are up past your bedtime?
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:33 PM
Response to Reply #31
35. My parents are dead
thank you so much for making fun of it.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:41 PM
Response to Reply #35
42. So, my aunt was a nun... and died falling down the stairs...
so thank you so much for making fun of it.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:54 PM
Response to Reply #42
50. well at least
she died for humor. That's a blessing.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:30 PM
Response to Original message
32. Oh I Love Nun Jokes! Helen Keller Jokes Crack Me Up Too!
How did Helen Keller burn her face?
She answered the iron.

What is Helen Keller's favorite color?
CORDUROY!
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:32 PM
Response to Reply #32
33. Actually - I honestly did LOL at those.
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 09:32 PM by Wat_Tyler
Terrible, but hilarious.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:35 PM
Response to Reply #33
37. Me, too. I admit it.
:spank:
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:55 PM
Response to Reply #37
53. Pithlet...
shame on you! There's nothing funny about blind/deaf women!!

NOW do you see my point in the previous sub-thread?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:58 PM
Response to Reply #53
57. You are so completely missing my point.
Wit. Intelligent humor. An actual point. Those are ALL MISSING in dead baby jokes!

Honestly, I can't believe I'm having this discussion. It's beyond bizarre.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:03 PM
Response to Reply #57
63. It is bizzare.
Why anyone would think that's funny is just beyond me. It takes a lot to shock me, it really does. Someone defending dead baby jokes shocks me. Actually, it sickens me :puke:

I think this person is just a kid, and I don't think they have the slightest clue as to what constitiutes humor. Don't waste your time.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:06 PM
Response to Reply #57
66. and you are completely missing MY point
which is that YOUR sense of humor isn't universal. Why is it cool that you laugh at Helen Keller jokes, but not dead baby jokes? Do you admit that perhaps your sense of humor is idiosyncratic and others might find something funny that you don't? Or is your sense of outrage and indignation universal?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:08 PM
Response to Reply #66
68. I know my sense of humor isn't universal
It isn't cool that I laugh at Helen Keller jokes. I never said it was.

I'm not outraged, honey. I'm just telling you like it is. Keep on with the dead baby jokes. Har har har! Tsuanmi jokes are quite the hit now, I hear. Again, I'm sure you've got a few. Let em rip!
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:11 PM
Response to Reply #68
69. So I'm supposed to accept
that YOUR level of tolerance is the universal level of humor?

Really, Pithlet, delineate for me why Helen Keller jokes can be funny, but dead baby jokes can NEVER be funny.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:17 PM
Response to Reply #69
74. NO!!!!!!!
That isn't my point!!!

Tell me, why is the image of a dead baby funny? Can you tell me? What is so ironic? So topical?

Your dead baby jokes are to pornography what Lenny Bruce is to art. Lenny Bruce's jokes, while profane and somewhat tasteless, had redeaming social, political and artistic values. He was using his humor to comment on life, politics, and art. Your dead baby jokes don't comment on ANYTHING. They are not humor, because they do not use the shock of humor to advance any other message.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:20 PM
Response to Reply #74
77. explain to me
why mocking a wonderful humanitarian who was deaf and blind is funny. If you can do so, you're a better woman (or man) than I am.

I honestly don't see the difference between Helen Keller jokes and dead baby jokes. One seems to offend you more than the other, but I can't accept that as a universal truth.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #77
82. The bottom line here is this....
Nobody has jumped in this thread to defend what you are saying. Most people don't find dead baby jokes funny, and if they do, well that's a whole other cup of tea. You are being very crass and rude, so why don't you just stop? Why keep pushing?
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #82
105. If I understand you correctly...
you're saying I should shut up because some people are offended.

Let's carry that thought through a little further....

I'm a 51-year old bisexual atheist woman with one tit (the other lost to cancer). Tell me exactly WHO I should shut up for. The christians? Men who hate one-titted women? Men or women who hate bisexuals?

I have a sense of humor. I never expected it to match everybody else's sense of humor, but I also never expected to be threatened and attacked by fellow liberals.

And you are mistaken - others HAVE jumped into this thread to defend what I'm saying, which is simply this: life is funny.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #105
109. "you're saying I should shut up because some people are offended."
No, no I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that you have clearly upset the normally fun and laid back lounge with tasteless, humorless, idiotic comments. Initially people mentioned that it might not be a very cool thing to do, and you kept at it until you had an all out war going in here.

It's not a matter of it being you're right, it is just a matter of class.

You are an atheist. If your neighbor died and you went to the funeral, in a church, would you run up on the altar screaming that there is no god and he/sh is going to rot in the ground? No, because it is tasteless, humorless and idiotic.

Don't tell me you wouldn't go to a funeral in a church either, b/c this is my scenario, and you did.

Jesus Christ.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:54 PM
Response to Reply #109
126. are you the parent
of a recently-deceased baby nun? If not, your post cracks me up.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:56 PM
Response to Reply #126
129. If I were, I'm sure you still wouldn't shut up.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:59 PM
Response to Reply #126
131. You really are something
Unbelievable.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:01 PM
Response to Reply #131
133. I don't ask that you believe in me
just know in your heart that I exist. I'm sorta like Santa that way.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:04 PM
Response to Reply #133
135. Deleted message
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #105
110. Life is funny, but dead baby jokes, falling nun jokes, and
Helen Keller jokes aren't funny at all...
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:24 PM
Response to Reply #77
87. That's the difference
Between you and me. I think the Helen Keller jokes were also beyond tasteless, and I feel imensely guilty that I laughed at them. I will not defend them. But, there is a difference between telling one of them, and a dead baby joke, for all the various reasons I stated.

I can't believe that someone who would deign to tell a dead baby joke is giving ME a lecture about humor. Now, THERE is some irony. See, now that is funny!
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #87
139. would it make you feel better
if I felt "immensely guilty" for telling a dead baby joke?

That would make it all better, right?
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:20 PM
Response to Reply #68
78. There are tsunami jokes?
Wow. Let's hear a few.

For purely sociological reasons, of course.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #78
83. You won't be hearing them from me.
But I'm sure there are some. Humor is, after all, not universal, as someone else in this thread stated. They would know, I'm sure.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:23 PM
Response to Reply #78
85. I haven't heard any yet
but I'm sure there are some, and they will be forthcoming.

You see, humor is a human response to all sorts of situations, including tragedy. Pretending to be outraged by it is just silly. If I hear a joke that offends me, I just don't laugh. I don't attack the joke-teller.

Is the holocaust so serious that it can't be made fun of? Tell it to Mel Brooks.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:25 PM
Response to Reply #85
89. Now you're just missing the point deliberately.
Carry on with the dead baby jokes. Never mind me.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:30 PM
Response to Reply #89
94. Pithlet
use your infallible Wand of Comedy to explain why Mel Brooks' jokes about the holocaust are funny, despite your protestations upthread that some things are simply out of bounds when it comes to humor.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:31 PM
Response to Reply #94
96. Fiona
Tell me why deab babies are funny? You never really did manage that, other than "Anything can be funny!" So? What's so funny?

If you do that, then I'll asnwer your question. Never mind that my point isn't that some things are outside the bounds of humor. Never my point, actually.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #96
104. Oh, and when you do answer it
I can get you in contact with someone dear to me who lost a baby to SIDS. I bet they'll love to hear it.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:57 PM
Response to Reply #96
130. So you know someone
whose child died. That's tragic.

I know people whose parents died in the holocaust, and yet Springtime for Hitler is funny.

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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #85
90. I find this whole thread amazing
A discussion (sort of) on the nature of humour that started out with a really bad grade school joke involving nuns.

It's hypnotic.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:28 PM
Response to Reply #90
92. There was background
from other threads, carrying over into this one. If the same poster hadn't made other jokes about dead babies, there wouldn't be this discussion. I could be wrong, but I think the poster was trying to make a point, after other people reacted rather predecitbly and understandably to his/her oh-so-hilarious dead baby jokes.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:32 PM
Response to Reply #92
97. "There was background"
Of that, I have no doubt.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:33 PM
Response to Reply #32
36. oh my FUCKING god...
I literally peed a little.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:40 PM
Response to Reply #36
41. Thank You For Sharing....
I don't see anything wrong with nun jokes either - and I had an aunt (now deceased) who was a Sister of St. Kasamir.

Q - What's black & white, hides in a cave, and cries?

A - A pregnant nun.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:45 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. awesome
thank you for bringing the thread back to its original purpose.

What's black and white and red and has trouble getting through a revolving door?

A nun with a spear through her head.


I sincerely apologize to any or all nuns reading this thread who are burdened by spears through their heads. It must suck, and I sympathize.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #43
45. What an odd thread
<eom>
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:50 PM
Response to Reply #45
46. Indeed!
Thank God for oddity. I come from a long line of odd people.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:54 PM
Response to Reply #46
51. I'm all for odd
I also enjoy bizarre, curious, eccentric, erratic, idiosyncratic, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, unique, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, and weird.

But I draw the line at disconcerting.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:13 PM
Response to Reply #51
70. And can you please
explain exactly where that line is drawn for all people?

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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:17 PM
Response to Reply #70
75. "I" is not "all people"
Although, there are certain philosophies that think so.

But they are disconcerting.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:51 PM
Response to Reply #43
47. What's Black & White and Red All Over?
A sunburned nun.

(True story - my aunt the nun went to the beach with her fellow nuns once in the Early '60s. Thay had all made their own bathing suits. My aunt got a terrible sunburn, and couldn't sleep that night. The Mother Superior finally decided that she had to go to the E/R. Imagine the E/R doctor's surprise when my aunt removed her ankle-length habit to reveal the outline of the bikini she had been wwearing!!)
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:55 PM
Response to Reply #43
52. I had another aunt... she was a nun too... and was killed...
...in a rebel uprising in Africa... yep, spear through the head...

thanks for making fun of her too!

Frankly, making fun of dead parents is far more fun that making fun of dead babies and falling nuns.

Did you hear the one about the parents who killed themselves rather than face their kids yet another day? Not very funny, but then, neither were the dead baby or falling nun jokes...
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:57 PM
Response to Reply #52
55. Lighten Up!!!
The Lounge is supposed to be a place to unwind. If this thread bothers you so much, then stop reading it.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #55
58. Who said it bothered me? I LOVE idiotic jokes that make fun
of dead babies, falling nuns, and dead parents.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #58
84. check out this site - it may help you
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:33 PM
Response to Reply #84
99. Thanks for the site... next time I have a royal pain in the butt...
... I'll know where to look for you and our resident dead baby joker!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #99
101. We'll be there with bells on! (Our ears, not up our ass)
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 10:34 PM by HEyHEY
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #52
59. I share your pain...
My grandfather died when he walked into a bar with a frog on his head, and my pet chicken died crossing the road.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:01 PM
Response to Reply #59
61. So, did you hear the one about the parents who got hit trying to
cross the road trying to get their kid to follow?
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:01 PM
Response to Reply #61
62. No
but probably because the punchline doesn't have any zazz.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:05 PM
Response to Reply #62
65. I didn't give you the punch line... n/t
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:13 PM
Response to Reply #65
71. then it's not much of a joke, is it?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:17 PM
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:21 PM
Response to Reply #76
79. Did it walk into a bar?
If so, I think I heard it.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:28 PM
Response to Reply #71
93. I just wanted to know if you had heard the joke, not share it
with you, seeings how you get all upset over people mentioning dead parents...
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:32 PM
Response to Reply #59
98. That's the first laugh I've gotten out of this thread.
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bobbobbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:22 PM
Response to Original message
81. whats this dead baby joke i keep hearing about...i must hear it!
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bobbobbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:24 PM
Response to Reply #81
88. nevermind, i found it...hehe
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Downtown Hound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:45 PM
Response to Original message
113. Wow, who'd have thought that a silly grammar school joke
could arouse so much hostility? Don't tell the one about the chicken, I know someone that was killed trying to get to the other side, and that joke offends me.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #113
118. Grab the popcorn
Although I think it is starting to die down a bit.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:52 PM
Response to Original message
124. This thread is as lame as FDR's legs.
"What, too soon?"

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Metatron Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #124
138. LOL - that is my favorite so far!
:D
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:29 PM
Response to Original message
143. I am locking this thread...
it is beyond redmption at this point.

Thank you for your understanding.
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