Thank you Michael.  Exquisitely stated.

Redemptive, really.  I was beginning to wonder whether my irony was rusting.

Took me a moment to grasp your reference to PC wasn't to Personal
Computers...shows you I'm a throw back to a pre Politically Correct culture
when gallows humor left real rope burns on the necks of the survivors.

The EG satire was sent to me by a Jewish friend with CP, not on the list.  I
take full responsibility for posting.

S.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle E. Cleveland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: Oops, the Band Plays On (Fm ...Getting to Know You...)


> Wow!  Well put, Mike!
>
> -Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael H. Collis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Oops, the Band Plays On (Fm ...Getting to Know You...)
>
>
> Well, One has to develop a taste for Semitic humor.  It is very
> "gallows" oriented.  Unfortunately, this PC world has little inclination
> to see the redemptive aspects of "gallows" humor... If a person can
> laugh while crying, he still has his humanity...  It's when the laughter
> or the crying stops that i began to worry...  In this PC world. one
> would think laughter and crying are mutually exclusive.. but in the real
> world, they're not.
> M.
>