Joke slam

[mojowork_n]

Discovering this forwarded e-mail in my inbox:

An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack. The family drove wildly
to get him to the emergency room.
After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER Doctor appeared, wearing his
scrubs and a long face.
Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but his heart is still beating."
"Oh, dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks in shock.
"We've never had a Democrat in the family before!"

...I had to write my own reply:

Very illuminating. If you altered the circumstances only slightly, the ER Doctor
would sadly inform the family, "I'm afraid he's still just as brain-dead as he was yesterday,
and that under-sized, withered organ in the center of his chest failed completely...

...but because he's a Republican we gave him a duplicate of Dick Cheney's mechanical
blood pump. The only thing you're going to have to get used to is that from now on, he's
going to need a colostomy bag the size of a Buick, and it'll have to be replaced daily.

[patrice]

1. LOL! Good comeback!

[mojowork_n]

3. Thanks

Apologies for the staggered text inside the box.

I tried to re-format so that the lines of text in
the text box would be more or less even, but they
came out the same way each time.

...Oh well

[patrice]

8. If it's MicroSoft, you place the cursor at the end of a line, press Delete, to delete

extraneous formatting, and then reposition the cursor where you want the new longer line to break, press Shift+Enter to break that line where you want it to break and without the original formatting, then repeat with subsequent lines until you have a paragraph with the line lengths that you want.

But don't worry about it: It reads just fine anyway and I *WISH* I could think of funny stuff like that to say, 'cause it makes the point which readers can't avoid, because it's funny.

I just get mad and say stuff that pisses everybody off, so they don't listen to me. :-(

[deaniac21]

2. This kind of stupid shit from all idealogies is so dim whitted.

What is the point?

[mojowork_n]

5. Well,

For me, the colostomy bag the size of a Buick was fun to think up, and say.

One too many "h's" in "witted," by the way.

[Richard Steele]

11. As if we regularly see such shit tailored to liberal sensibilities. Pfft.

nm

[RandomThoughts]

4. I don't think thinking is lack of heart, or heart is lack of thinking.

People can spend much time thinking on things, and find best practices and best ideas to match what they feel is right.

People also could think on something and find a method that is best without considering how it feels.


Those that say having a heart is not thinking, really don't know that they are really saying they think without heart. A person with heart probably thinks more.

For instance, someone who figures out to set up a shelter for people, has to think quite a bit, so does someone trying to get by on less money or without resorting to easier less feeling methods.

I would say it takes far more thought and thinking to have a heart and feel. It is really easy to figure something out with no moral component or no heart, but to try and figure something out that also matches feeling takes more thought.

[mojowork_n]

6. zzzzzzzz

no offense, but you lost me. The point of the post was just the creative exercise in re-framing the joke. I wasn't trying to re-frame "Il Penseroso" and "Il Allegro," or whatever those two poems were called.

[RandomThoughts]

7. It seems people think that if you make a compassionate decision

then you are not thinking, what they seem to really say is that it is smart to not feel. I disagree with that.

[patrice]

9. Good point & well made.

[mojowork_n]

10. Oh, absolutely. You're right

Even Diogenes wasn't what we think of as a "cynic."

Good read on that here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/young05132010.html

[mojowork_n]

12. Afterthought

Actually, if there is a point to be made about any of this, it's that
no one's right all the time. Even when we feel like we absolutely,
most certainly are "in the right" --------> regarding some question,
issue or controversy on which we disagree -----------> we shouldn't
allow ourselves to get all big-headed about how clever, whitty, or
wonderful we are, so that we can judge them harshly. {That ol' devil,
Schadenfreude.}

I'm saying that even as I'm watching Good Night and Good Luck, George
Clooney's movie re-creating the often unpleasant disagreements between
newscaster Edward R. Murrow on the one hand, and Joseph McCarthy and Roy
Cohn, on the other.

History, for the moment, has tended to vindicate Murrow, and has assigned
McCarthy and Cohn to the pit of infamy.

The movie's in black and white so that it can incorporate newsreel footage
of McCarthy and Cohn, themselves...

...As I type this, the guy in the hearing is asking McCarthy, "...have you
no sense of decency, Sir..."

The example illustrates the point. In the heat of the moment, for whatever
reason, let's hope that we can assume that McCarthy and Cohn were honestly
convinced that theirs was a crusade to save America from communism, and not,
in fact, the twisted consequence of some defect in either man's character
(alcoholism, on the one hand, and closeted homosexuality, on the other), which
created the excesses of zeal, and psychological transference, which made them
so utterly disrespectful of all of their enemies.

Whatever the circumstances of the debate or disagreement, it's really not healthy
to get too harsh or judgmental about people with whom one disagrees.

...In the end, that just gets to be too yucky an exercise. Indeed, what's the point?

[Scuba]

13. McCarthy, Sensenbrenner... must be the water around here.

[Quantess]

14. I like it.

No point in turning this into a philosophy debate.