On 21 Mar 2006 08:53:56 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


Jack Goff wrote:
On 20 Mar 2006 07:39:45 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


Jack Goff wrote:
On 17 Mar 2006 11:54:16 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


JimH wrote:
Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important
meeting and couldn't find a parking place.

Looking up to heaven he said, Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking
place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me
Irish Whiskey."

Miraculously, a parking place appeared!

Paddy looked up again and said, "No need for you to bother now Lord, I just
found one." ;-)

bigot.

Grow up.

Hmm, let's recap. JimH tells a ridiculously not funny joke, which is
bigoted towards a certain ethnic group, and you tell ME to grow up? Now
THAT'S funny!

Nah... here's what's funny.

Bassy wrote:

But the subject was OBVIOUSLY addicted to alcohol, or else the punch
line would have been moot.


But the punch line was:

Looking up to heaven he said, Lord take pity on me. If you find me a
parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give
up me Irish Whiskey."

Sorry, the punch line was:
Paddy looked up again and said, "No need for you to bother now Lord, I
just found one."

You are correct, I quoted the setup for the punchline. The punchline
itself had absolutely nothing to do alcohol or Mass. It was about the
parking spot.


Why did you zero in on the alcoholism aspect?

Uh, perhaps because that's the obvious underlying cause and affect that
makes the whole joke work, is just that!

Why not Mass?

See above

Sorry. Remove the Irish whiskey and leave just Mass, and the joke
still works.


Also, in the joke, the Irishman was not drunk. Why do you assume he
was, or that he was addicted?

See above.

You see above, please.


You, Bassy, are the bigot. And that's not funny.

What have I said that was bigoted in ANY way??

Let's try these:

Why is it an Irishman who's drunk?
Why did you think the Irishman was drunk? In no way did the joke
remotely imply that he was drunk, or had been drinking. But that's
what YOU thought.

But the subject was OBVIOUSLY addicted to alcohol, or else the punch
line would have been moot.
A joke's punchline is never moot, unless the joke already has gotten
the laugh. Since we've already determined that the punchline had, in
fact, nothing to do with alcohol, that statement is incorrect anyway.
Why would you assume that the Irishman was OBVIOUSLY addicted to
alcohol, when the joke never made addiction an issue, nor depended on
that to get the laugh?

Perhaps I can clear your
mind. Would it, or would it not be a bigoted joke if, say we made Paddy
into Taniqua, the black crack whore in the ghetto?

Why would you assume that Taniqua is a crack whore? Is that your
perception of blacks?

You are more of a bigot than I thought.