Italian Rhone face-off

[MLipton]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by MLipton:
C’mon, Jeff. Surely you can recognize that Jonathan was speaking metaphorically? As for the humor found in disasters, the continuing popularity of Wipeout and its ilk surely suggests that your view might be the minority one.

Is there an irony deficiency in the water supply at your place, too?

Apologies, jeff. Irony is often hard to suss out in the written word.

Mark Lipton

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

I think irony is getting used to loosely. Jeff wasn't saying something he didn't mean to make a point about the wrongness of the meaning he was being ironic about. He was just being silly in the mode of Oscar Wilde, as was I in my response to his response. But Jeff is right that missing that does suggest some sort of tonal deficiency, like not appreciateing the Importance of Beiong Earnest and wondering why the play wasn't titled, more accurately, the importance of being ernest.

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I think irony is getting used to loosely. Jeff wasn't saying something he didn't mean to make a point about the wrongness of the meaning he was being ironic about. He was just being silly in the mode of Oscar Wilde, as was I in my response to his response. But Jeff is right that missing that does suggest some sort of tonal deficiency, like not appreciateing the Importance of Beiong Earnest and wondering why the play wasn't titled, more accurately, the importance of being ernest.

The Importance of Boinging Earnest?

Maybe I shouldn’t have gone there. Feeling silly this morning....

 

[robert ames]

this thread has morphed from being as funny as a train wreck to being as funny as a fart in church.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Booining Ernest is more of a possibility. Most of the conflict is about boinging Cecily, though.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by robert ames:
this thread has morphed from being as funny as a train wreck to being as funny as a fart in church.

I can't tell whether you think that's an improvement.

Maybe more wine would help.

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by robert ames:
this thread has morphed from being as funny as a train wreck to being as funny as a fart in church.

I can't tell whether you think that's an improvement.

Maybe more wine would help.

any improvement would be in the mind of the beholder, and their sense of humour.

but as someone who went to church religiously the first 25 years of me life, i do find the church scenario funnier. especially if the pews (pun intended) are unpadded.

nothing could take the mind off of the parson's saw like bright ripper resonating off of oak.

being able to do that without leaning to the left or right was the mark of a master.