That last part I find the most difficult to believe.

Seemed like a non sequitur. Though I may have been unplanned, and unwanted, but definitely the favorite. Everyone's favorite.

Yeah, and everyone's favourite character from The Goonies is Sloth.

Yet again you have proved yourself a liar and a cad, but it is the coward in you I find most distasteful.

I never saw the goonies, so I had to look that up. I do feel sympathy for something like that. I mean, its pretty easy to be mean to someone that you think is a loser, or ugly or something. I feel bad about the difficult life someone like that would lead. Kids can be cruel, but usually people grow up.

Well, at least I proved something.

. I do feel sympathy for something like that. — Wosret

Ha. 'cause it ain't a real person.

analyzing jokes makes them not funny before — Wosret

That's why I don't think The Annotated Alice [...In Wonderland] was any good.

Michael Ossipoff

No, it's like a puppet or something, but something of an analogue of someone born with sever mental and physical degradation... and you're basically making fun of them for it...

Aren't you like 28 or 30 by now, man?

Ever hear of Dante's four levels of meaning? I can understand why he would have gotten so deep into analysis, I mean, there was only one good book back then. Dum dum tis.

Ever hear of Dante's four levels of meaning? — Wosret

I can understand why he would have gotten so deep into analysis

I believe it was Martin Gardner who annotated it.

Did he do it in order to ruin the humor?

I mean, there was only one good book back then

What book was it?

The Annotated Alice was annotated by Martin Gardner, and was probably published in the '60s, or maybe the '50s, at the earliest, most likely. There were probably a few good books at that time.

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Dum dum tis.

Reword?

Michael Ossipoff

I forgot to answer your initial question. No, I haven't heard of Dante's four levels of meaning--Was that what he's best known for writiting about levels of? :)

Michael Ossipoff

What book was it? — Michael Ossipoff

Sorry, but it would be uncouth for me to explain.

How can you tell that you open a philosophy forum on the internet?

It is the only place that can go from bad jokes to personal insults in less than 20 posts.
And the insults are not even funny.

What book was it? — Michael Ossipoff

Sorry, but it would be uncouth for me to explain. — Wosret

Oh, ok, the only good book during the '50s or '60s was porno.

Forgive me, but I must admit that I'm not good at, or interested in, the sarcasm game. I assume that people mean what they say. I have no guess about what you mean, but that's ok..

Michael Ossipoff

The good book is the bible.

The good book is the bible. — Wosret

Good for what?

Readin', mostly. Also talkin' 'bout, and chucking both figuratively and literally at times.

Person A: Did you hear about the man who named his cat Aristotle?

Person B: No.

Person A: Somebody asked him why he would name his cat Aristotle. "Because it sounds better than David Hume!", he said.

It's not a real insult if it's asked for, so it's all good.

Aren't you like 28 or 30 by now, man? — Wosret

No. 29.

The Annotated Alice was annotated by Martin Gardner, and was probably published in the '60s, or maybe the '50s, at the earliest, most likely. — Michael Ossipoff

Thank you for causing a family feud. Wife had rearranged the books, so that when I went to check the date of publication, the Annotated Alice had been removed from its obvious location amongst the logic books and placed, for no obvious reason, amongst the children's books. Shame.

But that was not the cause of the dispute. Wife had the nerve to claim ownership of said volume!

1960, is the answer.

There were probably a few good books at that time.

Well, at the least there was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Forgive me, but I must admit that I'm not good at, or interested in, the sarcasm game. I assume that people mean what they say. — Michael Ossipoff

Are you looking for a girl friend? My single 74 year old sister is available. She's totally immune to anything with double meaning--sarcasm, complicated jokes, figures of speech, etc. I think it's an early sign of alzheimers. You two could go down hill together.

An Irishman walks out of a bar.
— Michael

I did that once. The toilet was broken. — Baden

Why would that bother an Irishman?

You're a failed abortion whose birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory. — Michael

Is this more insulting?

"The better part of [so and so] ran down his daddy's leg."

Lame because the joke took too long and required an explanation. 28% funny.

Garrison Keillor claimed that this joke was the funniest of that year's best jokes.
One penguin said to another, "You look like you're wearing a tuxedo.
The other penguin said, "Who says I'm not."


Mama, why is daddy not moving?
(louder) Mama, why isn't daddy moving?
(very loud) Mama, what is the matter with daddy?
Shut up, kid, and keep digging.

Thus is identified the lacuna of falsity in my sorry tale. The shame.

Are you looking for a girl friend? — Bitter Crank

No, thanks anyway, but that's ok, I don't really need 2 girlfriends..

My single 74 year old sister is available

No thanks, I wouldn't want to marry into your family. She might let you visit the house, and that wouldn't be acceptable.

She's totally immune to anything with double meaning--sarcasm, complicated jokes, figures of speech, etc. I think it's an early sign of alzheimers.

It's a sign of taking a forum's topic and guidelines seriously.

If you don't, that's no business of mine, but I'd prefer to not hear from you.

For your sister's sake, I hope she has the good judgement to not include you among her associates. It isn't her fault whom she's related to, or what she has for a brother.

You two could go down hill together.

Evidently this forum-website doesn't have much farther downhill to go, if it permits postings such as the one that I'm replying to..

Michael Ossipoff

An Irishman walks out of a bar. — Michael

I got a better one:

A man walks into a bar.
His alcohol dependency is tearing his family apart.