Need a laugh this morning?
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Crankylove
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Who cares if its true or not? Gave me a laugh, thanks 
+1 Larvatus- I do not agree with fyredup that all of us would mug somebody if we thought we could get away with it. I believe very few of us would shrink down to that disgusting level as he proposed. I also know that on more than one occasion I tried to be funny and was ripped a new one by fellow members on this forum, so I guess I should know sarcasm from reality via osmosis.
The post in question was: "When a BG enters my home I'll empty mag after mag into him as I yell say hello to my little friend, It will also take me 30 minutes to collect up all the spent brass" There was actually a knuckhead on this forum that thought that I was speaking the truth, instead of being funny. I guess some members want it both ways, "jeez lighten up" nope you said what you said and it was stupid.
The post in question was: "When a BG enters my home I'll empty mag after mag into him as I yell say hello to my little friend, It will also take me 30 minutes to collect up all the spent brass" There was actually a knuckhead on this forum that thought that I was speaking the truth, instead of being funny. I guess some members want it both ways, "jeez lighten up" nope you said what you said and it was stupid.
Okay, let me explain the concept of taking something in context. The topic where you frankly, stupidly, posted about emptying magazine after magzine into the BG was a serious topic, discussing home defense. This is a humorous topic about a BG who got the situation turned around on him. I for one second did not believe the story was true...hence the title of the thread. "Need a laugh this morning?"
I have neither the desire to mug someone OR empty magazine after magazine into bad guys and spend a half an hour picking up the spent brass. I found this story funny with a poetic justice type of twist and yours, if it was meant to be funny...not. I don't believe you meant it to be funny at all. I think you were being a smart ass and trying to look cool in your disagreement with other's opinions and tactics. It failed and painted a really good picture of the gun owner and home defense. I'm sure the shoot the guy for stealing your TV crowd found it hilarious.
David Armstrong
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And if had stopped there that would have been fine and it would have been funny. But it didn't stop there, it continued on to discuss committing multiple crimes, some of them felonies, which is not funny, IMO.
And once again...I didn't realize that complete removal of the sense of humor was required to be here.
This was a humorous post from the get go. Either laugh or move on to discussing zombies or why you need 38 guns of 27 calibers stashed all over your house and why you need to carry an M-4 while showering to remain safe in your home.
By the way real felonies have been discussed here before. Like the latest one...how to most effectively hide you guns if Obama decides to try to confiscate them. I don't recall seeing any of your outrage on that topic.
This was a humorous post from the get go. Either laugh or move on to discussing zombies or why you need 38 guns of 27 calibers stashed all over your house and why you need to carry an M-4 while showering to remain safe in your home.
By the way real felonies have been discussed here before. Like the latest one...how to most effectively hide you guns if Obama decides to try to confiscate them. I don't recall seeing any of your outrage on that topic.
It seems to have worked that way for you in this instance. The online forum counterpart of the telephonic iFart is the practice of disclaiming serious intent whenever you get called on your eructations.
Harry Callahan
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C'mon, guys. Let's play nice. I'm becoming sorry I posted this ill advised attempt at humor.
MrSardonicus
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LOL
I found it quite funny. The interjection of a little humor in an otherwise quite serious forum should in no way impugn the entire forum....come on folks, take your cheeks off of safety and crack off a smile.
I found it quite funny. The interjection of a little humor in an otherwise quite serious forum should in no way impugn the entire forum....come on folks, take your cheeks off of safety and crack off a smile.
CONTEXT. It is really quite simple. With some of the stances taken in that shotgun topic I had every reason to believe that poster was completely serious in his lunatic blood lust to empty magazine after magazine into the bad guy. This topic started out as humorous from the beginning and you and others having no sense of humor took off on a tangent about the felonies being committed by the concealed carry guy in the story.
Again, this was a joke and you are outraged at the comedic mention of "felonies" yet you say nothing in the topic when people are asking how to commit a felony if gun bans and confiscation takes place.
My advice? Either get a sense of humor of your own, or perhaps borrow one since you won't be using it all that often, or stay out of tiopics that ask you if you need a laugh.
Either way, have a nice day.
Michael A. Le Lack
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Talk about FUNNY!
Are you sure your not Bob Hope, that's the funniest story I've read in a LONG time. Can't stop giggling. I forwarded it to my Son, Daughter, friends and even some foes. I too wonder why some members can't see it for what it is and if you can't ...just move on. I belong to a few GUN forums and it happens there also, even in some PIF threads. It reminds me of road rage on the internet. But again I digress.....it was a good read and Very FUNNY! Thanks
Are you sure your not Bob Hope, that's the funniest story I've read in a LONG time. Can't stop giggling. I forwarded it to my Son, Daughter, friends and even some foes. I too wonder why some members can't see it for what it is and if you can't ...just move on. I belong to a few GUN forums and it happens there also, even in some PIF threads. It reminds me of road rage on the internet. But again I digress.....it was a good read and Very FUNNY! Thanks
Lost Sheep
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On felonius humor
tongue-in-cheek
ironic
sarcastic
slapstick
attack (think Don Rickles or Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog)
wry
broad
self-deprecating
There are probably more kinds of humor than there are cartridges. Some display well in print while others do not.
The essence of humor, all humor, is the disjoint. The contradiction between one part of a story and the rest. Examine any joke for that disjoint and it will be there. Any humor. Any laugh. (or, at least, the humor theoriticians say - yes, there ARE humor theoreticians!)
It may not be required to have a sense of humor to post here, but it helps.
I (through a misunderstanding of the requirements of membership) had my sense of humor surgically removed before joining. I still have my sense of humor, though. I keep it in my nightstand, as my wife suggests it is a good thing to have handy during sex. (Though I am not sure why.)
Unfortunately, in humans, the sense of humor is very difficult to separate from the intellect, as my surgeon found out too late. I keep it in another jar in the bottom drawer of my desk.
Sometimes, though, the complete ABSENCE of humor is hilarious on its face, or in its context. With my intellect and humor being kept in separate jars in separate rooms, sometimes I cannot tell.
On the original post's apparant advocacy to commit felonies, consider this:
Hitting someone BACK is not the same as hitting someone. Mugging someone BACK is not the same as mugging someone. But mugging someone back does not bear the same relationship to the original mugging as hitting someone back bears to the original hit. One might be justifiable self-defense. The other is a separate crime.
One would have to be a VERY enlightened being to have never experienced the urge to inappropriate retaliation (emptying a magazine into an offender or mugging your attempted mugger) just as one would have to be a very depraved individual to ACT on that urge.
It was very satisfying to read the original post and savor the imaginings of treating a mugger that way, then being able to rub it in, to boot. And therein lies the humor. The disjoint. The difference between what we would do and what we story says (imagines) we did.
Given the limitations of the English language, the rhetorical skills of many authors and the reading skills of others, I try to make absolutely clear when I am (trying to) being funny or serious. In this post, however, I am deliberately mixing the two.
Obviously, some people posting here, and some people reading here, are not clarifying the differences adequately. And therein lies more humor. Until someone gets hurt.
Play nice. It's funnier.
Lost Sheep
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To Harry, thanks for the O.P. Definitely worth the bandwidth. Don't worry about the dust-up. Raising our blood pressure is the only exercise some of us get.
To lavartus, thanks for the vocabulary. Eructations is not a word I will probably be able to remember, but it was good.
MrSardonicus, I liked your metaphor and find the serendipity of your moniker particularly savory.
P.P.S.
Now, let's get serious and talk about getting our new President and the Houses of Congress to appropriate funds and declare a national interest in curing that debillitating disease, Hoplophobia.
See the disjoint?
tongue-in-cheek
ironic
sarcastic
slapstick
attack (think Don Rickles or Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog)
wry
broad
self-deprecating
There are probably more kinds of humor than there are cartridges. Some display well in print while others do not.
The essence of humor, all humor, is the disjoint. The contradiction between one part of a story and the rest. Examine any joke for that disjoint and it will be there. Any humor. Any laugh. (or, at least, the humor theoriticians say - yes, there ARE humor theoreticians!)
It may not be required to have a sense of humor to post here, but it helps.
I (through a misunderstanding of the requirements of membership) had my sense of humor surgically removed before joining. I still have my sense of humor, though. I keep it in my nightstand, as my wife suggests it is a good thing to have handy during sex. (Though I am not sure why.)
Unfortunately, in humans, the sense of humor is very difficult to separate from the intellect, as my surgeon found out too late. I keep it in another jar in the bottom drawer of my desk.
Sometimes, though, the complete ABSENCE of humor is hilarious on its face, or in its context. With my intellect and humor being kept in separate jars in separate rooms, sometimes I cannot tell.
On the original post's apparant advocacy to commit felonies, consider this:
Hitting someone BACK is not the same as hitting someone. Mugging someone BACK is not the same as mugging someone. But mugging someone back does not bear the same relationship to the original mugging as hitting someone back bears to the original hit. One might be justifiable self-defense. The other is a separate crime.
One would have to be a VERY enlightened being to have never experienced the urge to inappropriate retaliation (emptying a magazine into an offender or mugging your attempted mugger) just as one would have to be a very depraved individual to ACT on that urge.
It was very satisfying to read the original post and savor the imaginings of treating a mugger that way, then being able to rub it in, to boot. And therein lies the humor. The disjoint. The difference between what we would do and what we story says (imagines) we did.
Given the limitations of the English language, the rhetorical skills of many authors and the reading skills of others, I try to make absolutely clear when I am (trying to) being funny or serious. In this post, however, I am deliberately mixing the two.
Obviously, some people posting here, and some people reading here, are not clarifying the differences adequately. And therein lies more humor. Until someone gets hurt.
Play nice. It's funnier.
Lost Sheep
P.S.
To Harry, thanks for the O.P. Definitely worth the bandwidth. Don't worry about the dust-up. Raising our blood pressure is the only exercise some of us get.
To lavartus, thanks for the vocabulary. Eructations is not a word I will probably be able to remember, but it was good.
MrSardonicus, I liked your metaphor and find the serendipity of your moniker particularly savory.
P.P.S.
Now, let's get serious and talk about getting our new President and the Houses of Congress to appropriate funds and declare a national interest in curing that debillitating disease, Hoplophobia.
See the disjoint?
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Michael A. Le Lack
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+1
And it only gets better
And it only gets better
Thanks- WoodyMrSardonicus
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Lost Sheep,
It's good to have a fellow MENSA member in the forums....
It's good to have a fellow MENSA member in the forums....
Michael A. Le Lack
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MEMSA
Thamk u
Thamk u
David Armstrong
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Not appreciating the advocacy of violent criminal acts and other felonies in no way indicates a removal of ones sense of humor.
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