Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Absolutely correct Horst. There is no other kind of humor. Jim At 01:44 PM 9/7/99 +1000, A.H.SCHMIDT wrote: > > > >> > >> > Humor at the expense of others is not funny at all. >> > Joseph Codispoti >> > > Please Joseph, there are no other jokes or other type of humor. Any joke >you make, anything you laugh about, any comedy movie, does it at the >expense of others. > >The 4 main categories of jokes are: > >1. Religion, 2. race, 3. sex and 4. misfortune (includes stupidity). > >Within any of the above categories, the actual joke is to the expense of >someone else >Just send me one joke, or one humorous story, which is not at the expense >of somebody else. > >This days of course, everybody gets terribly uptight about jokes of the so >called minorities. However , it is of course quite ok for the minorities >to make jokes about other minorities, or even better, about the main >stream population. > >If I would get upset, every time I hear a joke about Germans or being >called a Kraut, >or even a bloody Kraut, by my fellow Australians, then I would be in the >nut house by now. >Just take it with a bit of humor yourself, and give back as good as you >get. >There is only one type of humor which is not at the expense of others: >Laugh about yourself. > >Regards, Horst Schmidt >