A Call For Humor!

[mhardy6647]

Like in the Polish saying: nadgorliwość jest gorsza od sabotażu = over-zeal is worse than sabotage

Polish is also, if I understand correctly, the source of the fine bon mot:

Not my circus, not my monkeys -- but the clowns do know me.

(or words to that effect)

Not My Circus (episode #1575)

Throwing cheese and shaky cheese are two very different things. In baseball, hard cheese refers to a powerful fastball, and probably comes from a similar-sounding word in Farsi, Urdu, and Hindi.

waywordradio.org

PS In terms of the forest(ed) glens, glades, swamps, wetlands, bogs, and fens, and all of the esoteric chatter engendered thereby (or, perhaps, therefrom?) -- I love this place!

 

[mhardy6647]

Maybe I'll just throw in a swale, too, while we're thinking about groundwater and runoff and suchlike...

FairFacts — Wet Swales | Public Works and Environmental Services

Fairfax County, Virginia - Wet swales remove sediment and nutrients. They slow and temporarily store runoff, allowing sediment to settle on the bottom of the channel.

www.fairfaxcounty.gov

 

[respice finem]

I swale I never heard of it before

 

[Salt]

We had this joke before and someone complained that it was disgraceful, cruel and not at all funny. I thought it was disgraceful, cruel, in extremely poor taste and quite funny.

This one was me and it is still ... not funny ... at all.
All of us may fall into mental or physical disarrangement, how would you feel in such condition ...??

 

[Multicore]

Forest Grove is a city in Oregon, Forest Glen is a holiday park near Lock Ness. I don't know their ph.

What's the pH of Inland Empire, I wonder.

 

[respice finem]

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...and those who don't, die too, but smarter

Which leads me to an old joke: A 100 year old patient visits his doctor. The doctor says "can you not eventually quit smoking?"
Why should I, says the patient, I won't get much older anyway. Doc: But you will die healthier.

 

[mhardy6647]

My grandparents lived in a thoroughly generic 1950s Baltimore suburb called Glen Burnie, MD.
The glen density there was vanishingly small, though.

 

[mhardy6647]

What's the pH of Inland Empire, I wonder.

I dunno, but California has or had its share of alkaline places...

The Alkaline and Boracic Lakes of California – California Water Library

cawaterlibrary.net

 

[respice finem]

Glen Burnie, Maryland - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Snickers-is]

This one was me and it is still ... not funny ... at all.
All of us may fall into mental or physical disarrangement, how would you feel in such condition ...??

But the joke is not about the disabled, or about the dog. It is about the surprise element of making an absolutely obviously wrong and completely unacceptable choice that we all (hopefully) feel really uncomfortable with.

Why is it so hard to distinguish between joking and actually doing something? Jokes are about to explore the limits of what is uncomfortable. This joke clearly points towards the fact that taking advantage of someone in need of help is absolutely beyond unacceptable.

If you find joking like this unacceptable, then it would mean you disagree with the premises of the joke as well. I can imagine that only the person actually willing to go take that wallet from this defense less person would think along these lines.

 

[G|force]

I am grateful that I live in the USA where people still can make tasteless jokes on the internet without fear of going to jail, and can disregard people who would police the internet. At least today anyway.

 

[mhardy6647]

Glen Burnie, Maryland - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Montel Williams is from Glen Burnie... who knew?

I will add this, which I am (currently) unable to verify. Frank Zappa's birthplace is, famously, recorded as Baltimore, MD.
Where I grew up (just south of Charm City in the thoroughly regrettable community of Brooklyn Park, quite close to Glen Burnie), Zappa's birthplace has long been reputed to be the equally generic "town"* of Ferndale. Ferndale is pretty much the buffer between Brooklyn Park & Glen Burnie.

PS My understanding was that Toni Braxton was from Severn, MD.
Not far from Glen Burnie -- but very much not Glen Burnie. Trust me on that.
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* Maryland, by and large, doesn't have towns, at least in the New England sense of the word. Most "places" outside of the few cities in the Free State are defined by the US Postal Service (i.e., their ZIP codes) rather than as independently administrated and incorporated settlements. It's kind of a Maryland thing.

 

[mhardy6647]

Whoa.
The guy who said You've got mail! was from Glen Burnie...

Elwood Edwards - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I am swelling with Anne Arundel* County pride.

Anne Arundell - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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* or, in the patois of the locals, roughly transliterated: Annarannel (rendered with a slurred, nasal affect). Most consonants are just a waste of time, space, and effort, from their perspective.

 

[mhardy6647]

ahem.
back to humor, albeit still somewhat regional humor...
Just saw this on hifihaven.org

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[fatoldgit]

And just to add some local confusion to this "vegetative" discussion, down in my part of the world we use the term "bush" to describe what others call a forest.

We generally use the term forest in relation to some man made planting of Radiata pine that are harvested but we also refer to ancient Kauri forests when referencing a large stand of long gone Kauri trees.

And just so that there is no confusion, my house is in the bush but I can easily see 10 or 12 trees that are 30 or 40 metres high.

I think the "issue" for us is our native bush/forest is a heady mixture of dense smaller bushes and large trees (unlike a traditional forest) so we focus on it's bush like features when applying a name.

Peter

 

[Soniclife]

What's the pH of Inland Empire, I wonder.

Cellulose or polycarbonate?

 

[Multicore]

All of us may fall into mental or physical disarrangement, how would you feel in such condition ...??

You might be asking a couple of different things here. I'll try to answer both sincerely.

First, falling into mental disarrangement has been a recurrent feature of my adolescent and adult life. Falling into physical disarrangement has happened to me a few times and a couple of times, including once this year, it happened in a situation where I could not wait for assistance and had to find my own way out. Either way it's frightening and makes me angry and frustrated. The worst part has been the shocking feeling of losing my autonomy.

Second, imagining myself into the situation in the joke of an incapacitated blind person who's guide dog has abandoned me seems potentially more horrible than what I have experienced. I fear blindness.

The joke works by leading us down the garden path with a picture of a cute, smiling Labrador retriever guide dog, the greatest symbols of zoonotic altruism, followed by the worrying story of an blind person in trouble and abandoned. So far it seems like it's going to suggest how to deal with the situation and then SURPRISE the joker invites us to be as wicked as possible. Imagining anyone we might enjoy a laugh with being so wicked is so absurdly incongruous as to be funny. That's how it works for me anyhow. It's a pretty standard joke formula that has gone a bit out of fashion in the last 10-15 years.

 

[mhardy6647]

And just to add some local confusion to this "vegetative" discussion, down in my part of the world we use the term "bush" to describe what others call a forest.

We generally use the term forest in relation to some man made planting of Radiata pine that are harvested but we also refer to ancient Kauri forests when referencing a large stand of long gone Kauri trees.

And just so that there is no confusion, my house is in the bush but I can easily see 10 or 12 trees that are 30 or 40 metres high.

I think the "issue" for us is our native bush/forest is a heady mixture of dense smaller bushes and large trees (unlike a traditional forest) so we focus on it's bush like features when applying a name.

Peter

Around here, we call it woods.


one may see a whole bunch of woods from this spot, "French's Ledges" in our little village.


the woods closer to our house in the fall autumn.

meanwhile, over at hifihaven.org --

 

[Robin L]