Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________ Isn't the whole point of humor, and satire in particular, to make fun of something or someone? I realize in this puritan enviroment we live in, making fun is looked at as being horrible and disgusting.
Humor, I say, is necessary. Where would we be without Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut? I am truly sorry that many people today need to be offended or feign offence in defense of others. Can't we laugh? Can't we look at something and say "Yeah, that was kind of funny..." Mellow out...Cripes. I'm part Polish, part Native American. Do you have any idea the number of jokes I've had to deal with? Am crying? Heck most of the Polish jokes I know I learned from my 100% Polish father. The day we ban Jonathan Swift is the day we need to shut down the whole world. Chris Rybisky Cathedral Hill --- Renee Jenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Post news and information from your neighborhood: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________ > > > Fine. I cannot see any purpose in putting something > like this "satirical" post on this list other than > to make fun of select groups of people and offend > other people. It certainly does nothing to further > any discussions. > > And the reason I had to say say something is the > nuns in grade school taught me to speak up in public > when I felt what was passing as humor was harmful or > destructive. And I think they were right. > > Renee Jenson > Como > > > > Original message: > > > The reference to Swift in the beginning of the > post is the >key to what was meant. That would be > Jonathan Swift > >(not Tom Swift, formerly a participant on this > list), the >author of Gulliver's Travels and A > Modest Proposal. The >latter work, available online > in many places (including > >http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html), suggests that > the Irish >eat their children as a means of > addressing the famine >then occurring on the island > (in 1729). Like our poster >now, Swift did not > actually mean it. The piece was satire. >Of > course, your reaction is why satire isn't really > popular >on issues lists. > > >Michael Lewis > >Mac-Groveland > > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your > password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > _____________________________________________ > For state and national discussions see: > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
