13 Oct 17 11:30, Robert Bashe wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
RB>>> And you apparently didn't understand Ward. He was joking - RB>>> admittedly a "black joke", but nonetheless a joke.
GK>> Once may be joking, but this was the third occasion within a few GK>> hours. That's why I was asking.
RB> What were the other two? I only saw one.
The other one was (as mentioned) in fidonews (something like "you're dead meat", I'd have to look it up again). The third one was the follow-up citation of the lyrics of "Those were the days". Here is some of the connotations that came up for me:
--- On Christmas 1975, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias Nguema, had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while a band played "Those Were the Days". ---
I think I understand black humour very well. But if starts piling up like this, it still tends to make me worry about the situation the "humourist" is in.
Regards, Gerrit
--- Msged/BSD 6.1.2 * Origin: A love pays love for lying (2:240/12)
