MythTickle by Justin Thompson for February 19, 2009

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    3Xp4t  almost 16 years ago

    Magnificent use of color! Bravo!   'Tho … laughing at Karma, especially Karma getting hurt, uh, wellll ,,, prob’ly gonna haunt you. Just a bit.

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    Nebulous Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    They should at least have the common decency to feel bad about laughing at her distress. But, as Mel Brooks said: “Tragedy is I get a cut on my finger. Comedy is you fall into an open sewer and Die.”

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    mivins  almost 16 years ago

    Karma’s right. I’ve given up reading some comics that consist of the characters insulting each other.

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    Don’t worry, boys and girls. Karma’s OK. She’ll just be reincarnated as herself.

    (Sure are a lot of cat fans here. For the record, so am I.)

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    bmonk  almost 16 years ago

    3Xp4t says:

    “…’Tho … laughing at Karma, especially Karma getting hurt, uh, wellll ,,, prob’ly gonna haunt you. Just a bit.”

    OTOH, Karma herself getting hurt, isn’t that ironic justice? (Or, if we go by GEE1A, poetic justice…)

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    jestrfyl  almost 16 years ago

    Lazarus Long (via Robert Heinlein) had something to say about this. It goes something like this, humor is either dirty or painful. I believe the concept was from Stranger in a Strange land or Number of the Beast.

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    n58digression  almost 16 years ago

    doc, I have to agree with you here – some of the best stories I’ve got to tell all involve personal stupidity or pain, and start to be the best to tell just after the sting wears off ;)

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    TWAdair  almost 16 years ago

    It’s funny until someone loses an eye. Then it’s hilarious!

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    runar  almost 16 years ago

    If you’ve seen “Quest For Fire” you’d know about the origin of humor.

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    Radical-Knight  almost 16 years ago

    I like Mythtickle. I also agree with Karma.

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    bmonk  almost 16 years ago

    Not all jokes involve stupidity, with or without pain:

    The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I’ve seen So seldom are clean And the clean ones so seldom are comical. (Anon.)

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    howlindawgs  almost 16 years ago

    I love to tell a good joke or story on myself. I can jokingly make fun of certain of my friends and they give it right back to me, but somehow I can’t laugh at most other people’s injury or humiliation (with some exceptions though, if they have it coming.)

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