Gosh! A thousand pardons. Even Bill Clinton couldn't match that. Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@attbi.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "David M. Porritt" <dm.porritt@verizon.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: Re: A thousand Pardons > Richard: > > A "joke" is something that is funny. An appropriate joke is one that > is funny to the whole group. Your joke would have been very > appropriate at the Democratic National Convention as that group would > have agreed with you (mostly) and laughed with you. That joke would > not have been funny at the Republican National Convention, and you > would have experienced lots of people who didn't "understand" your > humor. > > This group is a mixture of both. You are certainly intelligent > enough to realize that there are people who hold opposite views from > yourself, and hold them as dearly as you hold yours. Making jokes > that you know will offend half of the list is just poor taste. > Accusing the offended ones of not having a sense of humor is also > poor taste. > > dave > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 1/19/2003 at 2:11 PM Richard Brekne wrote: > > >List > > > >I was under the impression that grown up humans could take a simple > joke > >and leave it at that, or at the very least air any beef one has with > a > >private person in private. > > > >I suppose I should have not posted that last Joke. Not so much > because > >it was or wasnt humorous to whom ever, but because obviously too > many > >simply cant handle a joke. > > > >Odd too when it comes to it, as joking around seems to be one of the > >favorite pastimes of every major contributor to this list. About > the > >only truely nocturn contributers are those who only post rarely, and > >they are always on topic. The Don Maninos and Horace Greelys and > some > >others. > > > >Unfortunatly... this amount of public people bashing ( and it has by > no > >means been exclusive to the topic of politics throught my time here) > has > >caused several valued minds to leave our group. And more will > follow. If > >that is what is desired.... then these continuing blowouts over > >basically nothing will do the trick. > > > >Is that what we want ? > > > >For my part.... well you all know where I stand. I can go along with > >strictly on topic stuff... but I see no point in not being social as > >long as thats what everyone else is doing. Still, as I have said > on a > >many an occasion in the context of many a topic.... there is no > reason > >to take discussions into the personal areana... and every reason not > to. > > > >Anyways... the Thousand Pardons bit is for not understanding how > >incapable so many seem to be of not doing just that. I still dont > >understand it... but I suppose I can recognize it. > > > >Cheers > > > >-- > >Richard Brekne > >RPT, N.P.T.F. > >UiB, Bergen, Norway > >mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > _____________________________ > David M. Porritt > dporritt@mail.smu.edu > Meadows School of the Arts > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, TX 75275 > _____________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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