Posted on 03/30/2005 7:26:09 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Is anyone else watching this? Cartman as Michael Schiavo? Kenny as Terri?
The writer (and lunatic) Philip K. Dick was told of a close friend's cancer, and he started laughing because, he said, he couldn't think anything funny about it--humor was his defense mechanism. I can think of many situations where I found the way to an answer for a problem but making fun of the problem.
Humor isn't this "low class" thing left on the porch when we go inside; it's the sharpest tool of the sharpest minds. And no, "crude" humor isn't left out. Just because someone is being crude doesn't mean...well, what DOES it mean? Why is someone offended when someone mocks something you take seriously? Only that they find something funny about it. Doesn't mean they want someone to die, or think someone is inferior, or whatever, and are just too scared or cowardly to admit it--it MIGHT, but it doesn't have to, no more than some of the people who post incessantly in "respectful" ways about Terri Schiavo want someone to die (Michael), or think someone is inferior (Judge Greer) or whatever, and are just too scared or cowardly to admit it.
Humor--crude, disgusting or whatever--is a legitimate form of discourse. Those who say "That's not funny!" because someone ELSE thought it was funny have some soul-searching to do, I think; it reveals a bit more about him or her than one might think.
Hmm, maybe it's all that cartoon watching that has gotten you nowhere with the women. Just a thought. Not a very serious one either, so... ;)
Hmmm.. did you have to think hard to come up with THAT deep revelation?
BITE me!! :)
Nice to know another freeper here., that is also on AK.
BTW-- you going to the march next week? I want to go, but it seems no one from around here is going.
1. Tell her you watch South Park. The Three Stooges works equally as well.
2. Tell her that you enjoy playing Dungeons and Dragons.
3. Tell her that you live at home with your parents.
4. Tell her that the rash below the belt is an "allergic reaction" that is non-contagious.
5. Tell her that you camped out for a month to see either Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.
Loved the Michael Jackson one!
Consider that pic stolen. ;O)
OhdearGod. :-)
You left out an important part of the final scene. Those doing the wrong thing for the right reason and those doing the right thing for the wrong reason spoke volumes. Also, the final wish not to have your face plastered across TV said a lot.
I would have replied sooner but I was out with a woman. Hope you enjoyed the cartoons. ;)
Nice work, Sherlock.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
That episode was genius! -and it even had loads of LOTR imagery that was just a bonus.
"South Park is funny and if you watch it, you would realize it makes fun of Liberals, hippies and one world types....not to mention the devil and Osama and Saddam and.....
Simple reason, because it's funny."
Yep. For those of us with open minds who aren't thin-skinned, anyways.
Miss Chokesondick was the teacher who also looked like Reno.
I can only imagine what Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller would do with this absurdity. It cries out for a competent satirist being totally filled with irrationality and hypocrisy.
I must admit..I laughed pretty damn hard in a few scenes.
Funniest SP in a while.
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