Comments on Fluffytek Art Blog: Humour: The Universal Language

OK. Not long ago one of your countrymen saw fit t...

2008-04-07T18:29:00.000+01:00

OK. Not long ago one of your countrymen saw fit to call me a "blathering bat." I believe it was because he liked me?

Once when I was in York and peeked into a pram, I startled the dog tucked beneath the blanket. The owner shot me a dirty glance and said, to the dog, "Don't worry, luv."

Also in York I searched in vain for a street called The Bottom. I kept asking, "Where is The Bottom?" I won't go on with this.

You catch my drift?

Fawlty Towers, in its too few episodes, is possibl...

2008-04-07T15:09:00.000+01:00

Fawlty Towers, in its too few episodes, is possibly the funniest show ever... except for The Honeymooners.

THanks Mr Wood. I love your James Thurber quote. H...

2008-04-06T08:45:00.000+01:00

THanks Mr Wood. I love your James Thurber quote. How true :-) BTW, I look forward to hearing about your cocaine clock story :-)

And the Indian Call centre description really made me laugh. I'm half deaf, so when I talk to them I have no clue at all what they are saying, let alone humour.
Please take a moment to watch the brilliant Foamy Squirrel at http://www.illwillpress.com/tech2.html

Mark, I really love Australian humour. Sardonicism at its best.

"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies...

2008-04-05T18:33:00.000+01:00

"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies."
Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author

It's about time somebody other than your Prime Minister started to change to become more politically correct for our benefit. In fact for me it's the only benefit I'm receiving right now. Also, could you talk to those people in our deep south about coming around. You know it's been over 140 years since they lost the war and it's damn time they got on the same bandwagon of language and culture. I mean Git-R-Done should not be a national rallying call. Let a lone a proposal to marry your first cousin.

Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist

You want to talk about language modification, talk to Rich and me. Moving through the land mine field of communicating with a woman, that can't be any different than communicating with some Tech call center in India.

I love some of the stories coming out of the exchanges of a India tech support person trying to communicate with one of our Southern Rednecks. They quickly find out, because they were taught English, doesn't mean they know English. Hell, in a country this size we have different cultures and have a hard time communicating sometimes.

You don't need a different country. I also learned as a salesman you can't always use your "home" sense of humor in a professional customer relationship. Some time I'll tell you my cocaine clock story. Sometimes when I've tried to be what I think is humorous. My daughter, tilts her head as she looks at me and rolls her eyes, I go what?, she closes her eyes and slowly shakes her head and says "Oh Dad". A lot of times she doesn't even realize I do it just to get that reaction.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

I LOVE the Big Mouth picture. If I had a copy of that I'd hang it in my office.

I don't watch much regular TV so can't reference your examples. But I will look at our future exchanges as cultural enlightenment.

So don't spare me your "Unique" culture. Maybe I'll come to enjoy it.

I hope to get you past your third glass of wine sometime.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William E. Rothschild
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In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin
1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker

D.L. Wood

Huh? I don't get it...bloody ironic, what...The U...

2008-04-05T02:40:00.000+01:00

Huh? I don't get it...bloody ironic, what...

The US and Britain...two peoples separated by a common language.

So true Lin.Now throw Aussies into the mix, now th...

2008-04-05T00:11:00.000+01:00

So true Lin.

Now throw Aussies into the mix, now there is a whole other type of humour again.

Fantastic photo by the way.