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From: "discussion" <>
Subject: Re: Netiquette
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:37:00 -0000


Agreed, but let's make humour the kind which doesn't require
victims. Great humorists and comedians we have, and have had
in the UK aplenty. If you look at their most acclaimed work, it
makes us see our own faults in a safely remote way. e.g. Faulty
Towers, Hancock's half Hour. The 'Bernard Manning's' of this
World barely raise an embarrassed snigger.
I see no humour in picking on others-how about some self parody
for balance?
N.H.

"Liz" <> wrote in message
> A great source of comedy is the humourless and socially inept character
> much given to pomposity and convinced of an intellectual superiority
> they do not actually possess.
>
> I think Malvolio in Twelfth Night was an early, and brilliant example.
> One must laugh, even tho' there is a twinge of pity.
>
> Laughter, by the way is good for the immune system. Fact. So if I can
> make a few people laugh there will be fewer 'flu victims this winter ..
> and I shall contribute to preventing crisis in the NHS. A noble cause.
>
> Bring on the dancing Polar Bears!
>
> Liz (Greenwich UK)
>

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