Subject: Re: Auditory subscription fun movement ... was Re: FUN From: Tony <syswatkn@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:01:07 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Nah, keep on digging; you people just crease me up. Matt Flax wrote: > Pierre's joke was funny because he was laughing at himself ... the joke > itself talks fondly of the way Italians and Jewish people need their > hands to talk ! Appologies to those Italians and Jews who still feel > offended ... > > Actually Pierre's response was to a joke I was playing on Pierre ... > I never allowed my original response to go to the list ... > Pierre pulled my bluff and posted himself !!! > > Have we all had our fun now ? > > Matt > > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:44 +0200, Pierre Divenyi wrote: >> PS: My favorite family members are Jewish. >> PPS: This very old joke is probably a little more funny than those on >> amputated animal legs. >> >> -Pierre >> >> PPPS: I agree that this discussion should not be part of the auditory > list. >> >> On 10/13/09 4:33 AM, "Matt Flax" <flatmax@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Pierre, >>> >>> All of a sudden, its not fun any more ... >>> >>> Are you an Italian Jew ? >>> >>> Am I missing a subtle connection here which doesn't make your joke >>> racist and antisemitic ? >>> >>> Is this how you want to represent yourself in a global community ? >>> >>> Matt >>> >>> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 03:40 +0200, Pierre Divenyi wrote: >>> I heard it as an ethnic joke: cut off the hands of an Italian or a >>> Jew and he/she can’t talk any more. >>> >>> Shameonme, >>> >>> -Pierre >>> >>> >>>> On 10/13/09 1:05 AM, "Helen Simon" <helen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> It was the frog whose legs were cut off. When they told him then to >>>> jump, he did not move. The scientific >>>> conclusion was that if you cut off the legs of a frog, it looses >>>> its hearing. > > -- Anthony J Watkins Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK. phone: +44 (0)118-378-7559; fax: +44 (0)118-378-6715 home page: http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~syswatkn/home.html email: syswatkn@xxxxxxxx .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .' `._.' `._.' `._.' `._.' `._.' `._.' `.