07-12-2012, 07:38 PM
The Special Olympics is funny. Rape is funny, too.
Of course, it all depends on how you structure the joke ... where the exaggeration is ... and most significantly, the nature of the larger issues at hand.
Is there more rape at the equator or at the North Pole?
Wait a minute ... Miss Manner's family member who rides the short bus ... could he or she be a rape victim, too?
I better not post this. I hope, in trying to delete it, I don't hit the SEND button. Shouldn't be a problem, though. I've deleted hundreds of posts. PHEW, that was close! Here goes ...
Of course, it all depends on how you structure the joke ... where the exaggeration is ... and most significantly, the nature of the larger issues at hand.
Is there more rape at the equator or at the North Pole?
Wait a minute ... Miss Manner's family member who rides the short bus ... could he or she be a rape victim, too?
I better not post this. I hope, in trying to delete it, I don't hit the SEND button. Shouldn't be a problem, though. I've deleted hundreds of posts. PHEW, that was close! Here goes ...
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene