--- In [email protected], "David Fiske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Bob Brigante" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >
> Bob I am always amazed at the links you come up with and the wide > range of your interests. You must be an unusual chap yourself. I > like the one on Boy George. He seemed amusing and very articulate. > David ******** Just another bozo with an internet connection and spare time, thanks. It is amazing that Boy George is articulate after his adventures, but the amusing part is just a show, I'm afraid, on the part of a basically unhappy and stressed-out guy. > > > > > > Self-deprecating humor is part of every ethnic strain's way of > coping > > with the world. Physicist Fritz Houtermans, who had the bad luck > to > > be imprisoned and tortured by both the Soviets and the Gestapo > > http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/knowing/lecsite/Frayn/bios.html -- > > 3/5 of the way down the page at this link -- , even wrote a book > of > > jokes. Sample: "When your people were still swinging in the trees, > my > > people (speaking of his Jewish heritage) were already forging > checks." > > > > > > > > > On Mar 20, 2005, at 12:03 AM, Donald Sosin wrote: > > > > > > > y point in relating this joke was not to make jabs at groups, > > > > especially a group of which I am a member, but rather > > > > to make a comparison between people second-guessing > Maharishi's > > > > statements and thinking they have the odds figured > > > > on when Sat-Yuga will materialize or not, when sidhas will > > levitate, > > > > etc. > > > > > > > > I would have thought this was self-evident. > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
