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To: bushfamfan
What is with joking about a subject in which a woman was axed to death?

It's called black humor. It's what people do when things are too horrible to cope with normally and one is sick of the platitudes about how awful, terrible, sad, tragic, etc. something is. Relieves the stress. You should hear paramedics sometime.

52 posted on 01/01/2007 11:10:23 AM PST by Fairview
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To: Fairview
"What is with joking about a subject in which a woman was axed to death?"

"It's called black humor. It's what people do when things are too horrible to cope with normally and one is sick of the platitudes about how awful, terrible, sad, tragic, etc. something is. Relieves the stress. You should hear paramedics sometime.

An excellent response sent to a stuffed shirt prude!

69 posted on 01/02/2007 8:53:03 PM PST by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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