Posted on 05/04/2005 5:59:04 AM PDT by OESY
Nope. I asked you two simple questions. You failed to answer them and, instead, threw a temper tantrum.
I then dissected the "logic" of your post, and you, again, threw a temper tantrum.
BTW, there ought to be some sort of "Godwin's Law" concerning the word "liberal" around here.
You cuold be right. But I don't think so. It is funny to most people because of the male horse's equipment.
However, I don't think it was the most offensive part of the speech.
And, the point is not just whether some of us think this is funny or that is funny. The point (and problem) really is that there are absolutelyl no lines dilineating when and where something might be appropriate. Anything broadcast anywhere is going to be available to virtually anyone (and sometimes shoved in our faces as well). This is really the crux of the problem.
susie
My father told me a similar joke when I was a yut back in the late 60's. He heard it from his uncle back in the 30's when he left the big city to spend the summer on his uncle's farm in upstate New York. It was funny then coming from my father and even funnier now coming from the First Lady.
And just how would that be funny? This was a simple order from Gen. Washington on a concern of the time. I don't see the humor in ridiculing the leader of the Continental Army just for a simple remark that was not out of place for the time period. Should we just replace every third word from every statement on morality from that golden era with the 'f-word'? Would that be funny? To a petulant child I suppose
If you get simple pleasures from inserting a curse word into any situation or phrase, I'm thinking some of the humor on South Park just goes right over your head, as do a lot of things. In the end, your statement was ridiculous, uncalled for, and frankly proved Malkin's weak point.
Ok
i'm not upset at all. south park is obviously very popular. i watched it a couple of times with my kids when they were young teens. it wasn't what i wanted them watching... i threw the tv out.. nothing worth watching that justified the garbage. i don't care one bit if anyone else chooses different. i sure don't tell them what to do.. whether they complain or not. to each his own.
i could care less what Mrs. Bush watches or doesn't watch on tv.. or what jokes she tells.. etc. or if others agree dissagree with my opinion on it.
that being said.... those who didn't like the Mrs. Bush's jokes have just as much right to say so and why as do those who liked it. i noticed on all these threads on this subject the last few days - the critics are told to "get over it". why is that? why do they have to get over it... and are accused of division etc just because they voice their opinion on this? seems ridiculous to me. if someone doesn't agree with the "oh, Mrs. Bush was SOOO classy" crowd, they are smacked down.... so i say to them - get over yourselves. we don't HAVE to agree on this..... do we??
Don't let the city-folks get to ya.
Do you want on my 4-H ping list?
Ditto. From BOTH sides.
"Actually 30 years ago was 1975, by which time "Deep Throat" was a household phrase."
Not at my house.
Yeah, look at the crude, malicious cuts at MM by these "intelligent" folks on FR would you? One takes a stand to hopefully raise the bar in civil discourse and suddenly you're a "prude" (and that's the mild term) among other things. Sounds a lot like DU to me.
Is it no wonder our society is in such moral chaos?
(TX grandpa of seven granddaughters--there is no South Park in their homes and yes, they all laugh and have a well-developed and good sense of humor...)
"I could REALLY do with a little less of the self-righteous pomposity that has been happening on Free Republic since the election."
Worth repeating.
May as well just throw out the television then. There's always going to be something that offends someone. I think the fact that Laura roasted her hubby put many people off. Wouldn't have mattered what she said. You know, "a woman's place" and all...!
Amen.
On South Park it would be.
Whatever.
susie
Hi Reb!
How are you?
Well, put it this way... He had three daughters named Anne -- that he acknowledged.
Thing is, the man dropped the F-bomb in his works.... Take, for example his "Ode to Spring":
When maukin bucks, at early f***s,
In dewy grass are seen, Sir,
And birds, on boughs, take off their mows
Among the leaves sae green, Sir;
Latona's sun looks liquorish on
Dame Nature's grand impetus
Till his p***k go rise, then westward flies
To roger Madame Thetis.
(Rather appropriately, I just realized, "maukin" is a variant of "malkin" which was Scots dialect for several off-color things.)
Your 13 year old watches C-span??? :)
Well, I watched the nightly news, even when my age was in single digits.
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