TheBanyanTree: You can't bury a cow here

[Sachet]

This made me chuckle, Chris. Too funny!

On 9/9/2012 10:30 AM, A. Christopher Hammon wrote:
> On 9/9/2012 12:36 AM, Monique Colver wrote:
>> Humor is so subjective. People used to think I was funny. Then I 
>> wrote this
>> damn book.
> This is great Monique. I've also discovered that humor also depends 
> some on context. On more than one occasion recently people have failed 
> to appreciate my reframing what might seem like a crisis by 
> commenting, "I'd worry about that, too, but I have cancer."
>
> One of my favorite context matters incidents occurred when I was in 
> college more than a few decades ago. I had been invited to speak at a 
> state conference. As a philosophy major, I had been asked to speak on 
> the topic of the meaning of life. I was introduced and the house 
> lights dimmed. "Man," I said in this pre-gender sensitive era and 
> paused -- the pregnant pause I've developed a reputation for. I meant 
> to continue, "Man is a living organism," but I promptly and boldly 
> proclaimed that, "Man is a living orgasm!"
>
> In many contexts, that probably just gets a laugh. But this was the 
> early 1970s and it was a Southern Baptist conference. The stunned 
> silence was deafening.
>
> Made for a fun story to tell over and over through the years, though. 
> And they still gave me a scholarship to one of their seminaries. 8-)
>
> Have fun,
> Chris/
>
> /
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