Re: SOD Editor-Retrographer Volunteers

From: Sean (seanpantsholland_at_telus.pants.net)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:02:00 GMT

necoandjeff wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>
>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>James Rose wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>in article oRYsd.39161$6q2.10553@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com,
>>>>necoandjeff at spam@schrepfer.com wrote on 12/6/04 8:08 AM:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I think he was just defending the accusation that he wasn't even a
>>>>>lawyer.
>>>>
>>>>What can I say? He just didn't read like one. Lawyers are almost
>>>>always cautious in all that they do and say. If he had more
>>>>experience in the lawyer mindset, I would have smelled his bar card
>>>>a mile away.
>>>
>>>
>>>I'll be the first to say that Kevin is one of the most adept at
>>>defending everything he says. He may be controversial in much that
>>>he says, but I have trouble believing he isn't careful in all that
>>>he says.
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>
>>
>>Come now. He's made some comments about certain foreign countries that
>>were intended to be glib and clever, but in fact served only to reveal
>>his ignorance of the histories and current situations of those
>>countries. Is mouthing off about something you don't know about
>>"careful"?
>
>
> You mean his constant making fun of Canada? I find some of that funny. I
> don't take it seriously and I don't think he intends it seriously.
>

That sort of thing is funny when it shows some insight. He just repeats
misconceptions. He also ties in the utterly bogus yet currently popular
(in the USA) depiction of the French as "surrender monkeys" and so on.
To me, political or social humour is funny if it has some substance
behind it. When it is based on misconceptions it's just stupid.

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