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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Subject: Re: Geez people!
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 05:22:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 05:22:33 1984
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The stuff with the ">" at the left edge belongs to Andrew Shaw.

> A joke is supposed to be humorous: it is supposed to make people
> laugh.  That is what a *joke* is.  Now, there are other forms of
> humor. ... There is also *black humor* ... : this is intended to 
> shock people
> with the realisation that they are finding amusement in something
> that offends their sense of ethics.
> 
> Now, in which form of humor was the President indulging?  Did you
> laugh?  

I got a chuckle out of it.

> Actually, I think that the man just does not think about what he
> says.  This can be called unaware, or if you prefer, insensitive. 
> Another alternative might be that he thought the remark was truly
> amusing.  In which case I wonder.  When *I* think about bombing I
> think about dismembered bodies and people screaming.  What do you
> think about?

Lord, give me strength.  I see all these people who disapprove of Reagan
so strongly that they apparently *want* to take offense at anything he 
says.  I say that these people are letting their political opinions 
interfere with their mental health.  Ronald Reagan makes one silly little
joke, and thousands of twits proceed to verbally deplore him -- at length.
I don't understand why all these people are jumping on this bandwagon, but 
let me guess: Perhaps deploring Ronald Reagan's joke is the "politically 
correct" thing to do, and all these people are doing it to demonstrate 
that they are on the side of the Righteous and Just.

If I see any more dead-serious, dead-boring, obnoxious droning moralistic
articles about Reagan's gaffe, I will find out the latitude and longitude
of the sites from which they were posted, and call up Mr. Chernenko
to suggest to him some particularly worthy targets.

Maybe this debate will outdo the debate in net.religion about the
gender of God for pointlessness, duration, verbosity, and stupidity.
Phooey.

	David Canzi, watmath!watdcsu!/dev/null