--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:34 PM, sparaig wrote: > <snip> > > > You, on the other hand, appear to prefer to make jokes at their > > > expense. > > > > Of course not. I prefer laughable icebreakers rather than Vulcan > > right-brain bullshit. > > > > > What's up with that? > > > > I prefer the expansiveness and spaciousness present in > > the moment of laughter. > > Yeah, but it's not all that expansive and spacious, > because it's *exclusionary*, elitist, looking down > your nose--exactly what you don't like about the > folks you're making the butt of your "laughable > icebreakers." > > "Expansive and spacious," my aunt Murgatroyd. What > a simpering fraud you are. >
It's like suggesting that people who are the subject of nigger jokes should join in because the jokes are inherently funny.
