[kj] ot: good news!

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Oliver,



Replies below.



Jamie


-----Original Message-----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 7.25pm
Subject: Re: [kj] ot: good news!



Oliver said: No one compared him to Hitler or Mein Kampf, for fuck's sake..



Jamie says: I know - I wasn't saying anyone had.  My point was that if you're going to get to the point of being glad someone's died, then it would need to be *that* order of magnitude, rather than the Bernard Manning order of magnitude.  (Cue jokes about how fat he was.)



Oliver said: That along with the hyperbole that fans of Manning imagine they're being oppressed or repressed for liking him, like I said, is funnier than most if not all the stuff Manning did.



Jamie says: Whatever makes you laugh is ok with me. <grin>



Oliver said: The guy just sucked. 

Jamie says: Maybe.  Does that make it good that he's dead?





 
 
jpwhkj at aol.com wrote: 

> 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! 

> 

> Jamie 

> 

> 

> 

 
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