[kj] ot: good news!

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

I never saw him, but yeah, he had some funny jokes (e.g. the lottery one related by my Fat northern namesake).

And I gather that he told some racist jokes.  That's out of order, but in the scheme of crap things, it's hardly up there with Hitler writing Mein Kampf, is it?  We're certainly heard worse than racist jokes on this list.

Morally, I agree with Mik that it's sick to say that it's good news that anyone's dead.  Of course I'd struggle to keep to that in some examples, but not for someone who's just a comedian (even if you didn't like his jokes)...

Mind you, I doubt Manning himself would have been that offended! <grin>

Jamie







-----Original Message-----
From: Mik Raven <mik at corvids.eclipse.co.uk>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12.28am
Subject: Re: [kj] ot: good news!





IMHO he was a very funny comedian who didn’t give a shit about what anyone thought about him. He was entitled to his own opinion whether you agree with it or not and entitled to say it. If you take away that right just to be politically correct I’m not sure where we would be. Probably with us smokers outside without any fair debate. I would have thought that Jokers would not condemn so quickly. Hey, but I’m wrong again about jokers. Not willing to live and let live, so go on flame me, but it’s not what I thought the joke was about. I liked the guy. I may not have agreed with his opinions but he had the right to have opinions that were different to mine. But finally, so say it’s good news that anyone is dead is just sick!

 




From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Tinsoldier645527 at aol.com
Sent: 19 June 2007 00:18
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] ot: good news!


 




Saving whats left of your profit margin for some consience easing charity.Why?Just to justify,just to justify



 



In a message dated 18/06/2007 19:57:47 GMT Daylight Time, fatpotanga at gmail.com writes:



A ‘controversial’ British comedian generally labelled as a racist for the jokes he told although he always denied being so.
On the flip side, he regularly gave thousands to a variety of charities in particular disabled, disadvantaged or terminally ill children.
In the latter part of his life he spent a great deal of time in his underpants: “a man needs to feel comfortable” he once told an interviewer.
Whether that sentiment ever extended to anyone sharing the same room is debatable.





 



Oppression and restriction,regulation rule and law,
Seizure of this power is all your revolutions for!





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