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i berated natalie for threatening to destroy art
So what do you find so beyond the pale that you cannot joke about it ?

― anthony, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

People who can't tell a joke when it's slapped into their face. ;-) Oh and I hate it when people FORGET THE H in my name! H stands for ha-ha.

― nathalie, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

i don't know if i've found something yet so darkly undealable that humour, in some form, doesn't help to deal with its severity.

― Geoff, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Does that mean you woul;dn't feel offended by WTC Tragedy jokes?

I personally don't find anything unjokeable EXCEPT SUPERMAN JOKES. I love that man Christopher Reeves. I think he epitomises Superman - his strength, good will and humour in such an awful situation. I know I couldn't cope with something like that... He truly seems like a superman to me to cope with such a calamity without committing suicide.

― Kodanshi, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

given time, i'm sure they'll emerge, and at that time, no, I probably own't be offended, but that doesn't mean other ppl won't be...remember the challenger jokes?

― Geoff, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I've heard one WTC joke so far, which I'm not sharing unless asked to.

― DG, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

share it.

― ethan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'd rather DG didn't, myself.

I think it's absolutely irredeemably fucking stupid to joke about people in rural areas being technologically backward, but things like that seem so unimportant after this week.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

stupid question, but nathalie, do you pronounce the h in your name?

― Maria, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

One vote for, one vote against. I'm voting to not share it.

― DG, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

But isnt art destroyed all the time?

― Pennysong Hanle y, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Heard several actually. Actually read'em in the newspaper. Another one was a spoof ad which a friend related to us.
"Why can't Americans play chess?"
Because they already lost two towers.
Yes, one pronounces the h in my name. You do it this way: Nat-HAHAHAHAHAH-alie. Mais non, il faut prononcer mon nom comme les Parisiens, avec flair. ;-)
Yes, HanLY that was my point. It is after all ONLY A PIECE OF CANVAS. Let us not talk art too seriously. fART.

― nathalie, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

TAKIETAKIETAKIE take take take. Take it OR LEAVE IT.

― nathalie, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Its more the one piece of canvas and by destroying it on purpose you destroy an idea. Its like burning books.

― anthony, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

as a citizen of more or less middle america, i can say pretty definitively that the only thing you cannot joke about are mullets. if i hear ONE MORE MULLET joke, i swear i'm going to put down this box cutter and turn the plane RIGHT AROUND.

― ian, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

excellent, this is exactly what i was hoping for. nofx punk kids rushing to spend $25 on novelty mullet joke t-shirts in what is essentially a mass mockery of 'out-of- style' rural culture and white poverty offends me far more than plane hijacking jokes.

― ethan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I think burning books isn't inherently evil (bt if it's the last copy then it's not good...hm, I can't get my opinion straight, my anti- everything half getting run over by my BUT IT'S A BOOK half.)

― Maria, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

but i dont take the piss out of mullets for any of the reasons ethan mentioned above. i take the piss out of them because:

a) the word 'mullet' is hilarious b) garth brooks

maybe i'm a brit who just doensn't get it...

i can't stand jokes or making light of animal experimentation. and destroying art is a terrible, terrible thing. i'm reading a biography of Vanessa Bell at the mo and apparently some of her panels, painted for a church during WW2, were destroyed by vandals in 1962. WHY!?!?

― katie, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Chris Waddle had the best mullet. When he cut it off, he lost all his power and missed a very important penalty. So mullets = classic.

― jel, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

If it doesn't withstand annihilation, it isn't art

― dave q, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Jubal Brown, a Toronto artist, intentionally vomited on paintings at the MoMA (i think) and the Art Gallery of Ontario as a statement against bourgeouis art or something. He ate food coloring to render his hurl in primary colours.

It just seems petty, reactionary and unimaginative.

He's a fucking dork anyway.

― fritz, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

But he still gets laid so... Oh never mind, bad joke.

― nathalie, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

but you cant say that shit, cos then you have to answer "what is art?" eg: graffitti artsist think that some of the pieces they do is art. (i offer no personal opinion, at this time at any rate). then the nyc/london/rome/whereever cleans it off.

is that destroying art?

on the other side, is designing a building art? cos then, if some one graffittis on a beautiful/architecturally important building, then thats destroying some more art, right?

can you destroy art with art? i suppose thats what that guy doing the vomitting was all about.......

― ambrose, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Tristan Tzara said "life is more interesting than art" and it is.

― Lyra, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Lyra :
I will send you many scrumptious cakes for know TZARA !

― anthony, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Yay! I like scrumptious cakes and Anthony.

― Lyra, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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