intersect . . . invisible images

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 06:26:14 EDT 2017


Thank you very much indeed: although I will NOT show that to
the teenagers here.

Richmond.

On 7/17/17 12:13 pm, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I Didn't laugh or smile at that (not because it wasn't funny) but because
> it didn't have the same effect as when as a teenager I first heard it on
> the Parkinson show in the mid 70s from Billy Connolly.
>
> I just went onto youtube and guess what I still laughed at the original
> which is very different (more morbid) except for the punchline
>
> It also has to do with the "infectious laughter" of the audience. You laugh
> louder in the Cinema than when at home watching the same film by yourself -
> The Black Knight in Monty Python & the Holy Grail anyone?
>
> Here is the original in all its glory (?)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slw08b3bHFE
>
> Regards Lagi
>
> On 17 July 2017 at 09:47, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> You have NOTHING to apologise for:
>>
>> I never thought the jokes were against me (which they weren't);
>> although, to be honest, I only wear 2 socks when I'm wearing my kilt,
>> although, right now, as it is high summer here in Bulgaria, I am wearing
>> my kilt
>> with NO socks, just a pair of open-toed sandals . . .
>>
>> What I stated was " . . . doesn't share your sense of humour",
>> and you, as a non-native speaker must be very well aware of how
>> culturally dependent jokes are.
>>
>> Here in Bulgaria, although I speak Bulgarian reasonably well,
>> I tend to avoid attempting jokes as they always misfire, or people
>> laugh politely and I am filled with self-doubt.
>>
>> My wife, who is Bulgarian, and I have been married for some 26 years,
>> and she still does not find most of my jokes funny; even those that have
>> my people in stitches with laughter. She finds my black humour
>> actively offensive . . .
>>
>>   . . . let's try a wee experiment:
>>
>> ----- Trauma Alert: potentially highly offensive joke approaching: if you
>> are of a sensitive
>> disposition go and feed the cat ------
>>
>> I went to see a friend of mine who is the secretary of the local
>> bicyclists club.
>> He told me that his wife had died, and because he had no money to pay for
>> her to be buried in a graveyard he'd buried her in the garden.
>>
>> He then took me into the garden to see his wife's grave. Her bare bottom
>> was sticking
>> up out of the ground. I asked him why this was.
>>
>> He replied that he needed somewhere to park his bike.
>>
>> ------ You can come back now -----
>>
>> Now I was told that by my older son, Alexander, who stays in Munich.
>> He found it very funny, as did his Music Professor (who told it to him)
>> who is German.
>>
>> My wife found it foul and tasteless (well, it IS tasteless).
>>
>> ------ Re: intersect . . . invisible images ------
>>
>> Very many people, moving to another country INTERSECT with various
>> aspects of the culture of the new country they are in, and are unaware
>> of the INVISIBLE components until they suffer the hard knocks.
>>
>> Moving from Scotland to England, or the other way round, there's probably
>> a blendLevel of about 25%
>>
>> Between Britain and Canada/USA a blendLevel of about 50%
>>
>> Between all those countries and the Islamic world about 90% (this, in case
>> we are aware of the terrible consequences).
>>
>> Having worked in 17 countries with a variety of overlapping and
>> non-overlapping cultural tropes
>> experience teaches me to be 100% opaque at all times.
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> Anyway, people have been making jokes on this Use-List at my expense for
>> ages; but my ego
>> is so big I just bathe in the light of attention :)
>>
>> Love, Richmond.
>>
>> On 7/17/17 11:18 am, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> Richmond M. wrote:
>>>> That's because Richmond doesn't share your sense of humour,
>>>> and never really could understand North American jokes . . .
>>>>
>>> As I read this thread (as a non-native speaker), none of the jokes
>>> was against you as person. And mine was based on a very old forum
>>> thread connected to a sock in the sense of the irish "seven drunken
>>> nights".
>>>
>>> Some of the misunderstanding may be due to the fact that you, being
>>> a linguist, are deeper in the meaning of some wording and phrasing
>>> than others.
>>>
>>> At any rate: Sorry from me.
>>>
>>>
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