Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread DaveAxler
I think it's worth remembering that making jokes -- successful or otherwise, tasteful or not -- about painful, unpleasant, disgusting, and distressing situations is a normal human response to those very situations. The famine in Ethiopia, the Challenger disaster, the schoolhouse massacre in

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Frank wrote: Please send me your list of appropriate subjects for humor. I'd hate to offend someone in the future. haha. see now that's funny. your asking what's appropriate. because you obviously know how soon after a local murder to post jokes about it, and how often in a day to post

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Siano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's worth remembering that making jokes -- successful or otherwise, tasteful or not -- about painful, unpleasant, disgusting, and distressing situations is a normal human response to those very situations. The famine in Ethiopia, the Challenger disaster, the

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Siano
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote: Frank wrote: Please send me your list of appropriate subjects for humor. I'd hate to offend someone in the future. haha. see now that's funny. your asking what's appropriate. because you obviously know how soon after a local murder to post jokes about it, and

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread KAREN ALLEN
How about this one: A priest, a rabbi and Brian Siano's mom walked into a bar and... From: Brian Siano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Brian Siano [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: University City List UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread Dan Myers
Ba dum bump Aristocrats are about as old as Rabbi and Priest jokes. Dan M. On 6/20/07, Brian Siano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KAREN ALLEN wrote: How about this one: A priest, a rabbi and Brian Siano's mom walked into a bar and... meet a theatrical agent. The priest steps up and says

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread Ross Bender
Ya know, what truly burns my britches is that all you talentless wankers out there get to enjoy the matchless comic talents of Bender Cassidy totally FREE. For nyet, rien, zippo, not even fitty cents. And all we get is bitch bitch bitch from the lame old aunties who lurk on this list and only

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-20 Thread Wilma de Soto
Have you ever seen Mr. Peabody and Sherman on Rocky and his Friends? On 6/20/07 1:39 PM, Brian Siano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KAREN ALLEN wrote: How about this one: A priest, a rabbi and Brian Siano's mom walked into a bar and... meet a theatrical agent. The priest steps up and says that

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought

2007-06-19 Thread Ross Bender
On 6/19/07, Kyle Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The three anarchists apprehended yesterday in connection with the murder at 49th and locust have been released after questioning. KYW reports that police are looking for two upper middle class educated young-adults The male goes by Connor or

RE: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought

2007-06-19 Thread Kyle Cassidy
They may catch them at the liquor store purchasing a bottle of Pernod with a Slurpee cup full of change. -Original Message- From: Ross Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] upper middle class educated young-adults -- that's about as helpful a description in this neighborhood as

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought

2007-06-19 Thread Ross Bender
On 6/19/07, Kyle Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They may catch them at the liquor store purchasing a bottle of Pernod with a Slurpee cup full of change. I'm trying to imagine the interrogation down at the Roundhouse: Cop 1: Where'd ya go to college, kid? Suspect: College? What

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought

2007-06-19 Thread Krfapt
Those making light of this situation ought to be ashamed of themselves. Ray tried to put an end to this by noting that someone died in this incident. And he was mocked by one person and ignored by others trying to outdo themselves in cleverness. I wonder what the tenor of the postings

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought

2007-06-19 Thread Brian Siano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those making light of this situation ought to be ashamed of themselves. Ray tried to put an end to this by noting that someone died in this incident. And he was mocked by one person and ignored by others trying to outdo themselves in cleverness. But we did manage to

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2007-06-19 Thread MLamond
In a message dated 6/19/07 1:03:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The three anarchists apprehended yesterday in connection with the murder at 49th and locust have been released after questioning. KYW reports that police are looking for two upper middle class educated young-adults The

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-19 Thread Margie Politzer
...What gives them or anyone the right to go so far as to kill someone doing their job of trying to evict them? ... Wendy Wendy, Have you read or heard that the murdered man was trying to evict the squatters? Please share the source with us. Margie

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-19 Thread missthin
Brian I never said you weren't a decent person. And obviously, anything sent privately is, well, private. I posted how I felt, in general, seeing jokes, satires, etc. in the face of what's apparently been a few really bad days around here. I happened to click on your post, I wasn't finger

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-19 Thread Frank
Please send me your list of appropriate subjects for humor. I'd hate to offend someone in the future. Frank On Jun 19, 2007, at 08:14 PM, missthin wrote: OK, I just got home and had a chance to login and read what everyone's been up to. I have to say, I am disappointed. No, make that

Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny

2007-06-19 Thread KAREN ALLEN
Thank you, Wendy, Al, and Ray. From: missthin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: missthin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Siano [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: UC List UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] update: squatters released, others sought/muggings ... not funny Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:14:11 -0400