Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


brenda m - Dec 08, 2006 9:17:52 am PST #5130 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm there!


bon bon - Dec 08, 2006 9:43:48 am PST #5131 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

This Hitchens piece is totally crazy: Why Women Aren't Funny.


brenda m - Dec 08, 2006 9:49:39 am PST #5132 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Minion is in my office getting a job offer on his cell phone right now! AAAGHHH!


bon bon - Dec 08, 2006 9:58:49 am PST #5133 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Slow natter day and I'm sitting here waiting for a brief to get reviewed so my paras can make it to the Christmas party. Anyhoo, survivoristas, a great interview with last night's bootee: [link]


Jesse - Dec 08, 2006 10:13:02 am PST #5134 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm trying to decide if I should just move my office myself, or if I should keep pretending to do work. Also, I'm avoiding one phone call and waiting for a return call from someone else.


Lee - Dec 08, 2006 10:14:01 am PST #5135 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Jesse, from way back, I'll send you the book. I have a couple of other thigns I need to send you too.


tommyrot - Dec 08, 2006 10:15:53 am PST #5136 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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Jesse - Dec 08, 2006 10:17:53 am PST #5137 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse, from way back, I'll send you the book. I have a couple of other thigns I need to send you too.

Yer awesome! I was literally just confessing to my coworker that I was going to have to buy the third one after work. Actually, honestly, I still might have to do that. You're not going to the post office today, right?


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2006 10:18:25 am PST #5138 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay. I'm not as caught up by the idea of one gender being funnier than the other, but more about why the comedy field is so male dominated on stage. In its simplest form, when we hashed it out among our improv group, it was basically that being funny (especially where wit is not concerned) isn't ladylike. For that matter, neither is surrendering to humour.

However, ladylike is less and less of a concern these days, but it still takes a while for a pendulum to swing. I'm willing to posit it's notably a societal phenomenon, and not anything in our nature.

Back to this Hitchens guy:

There are more terrible female comedians than there are terrible male comedians,

Really? I can only go from Montreal open mike nights, but those were full of guys trying to flex their humour muscles--I'd say that the hack comedian population skewed more male than the people actually respected. Montreal-wise, anyway.

but there are some impressive ladies out there.

A generous concession.

Most of them, though, when you come to review the situation, are hefty or dykey or Jewish, or some combo of the three.

As far as I can tell, hefty's code word for "wouldn't bang her sober." Speaking as a woman with a bit of a thing for the comedy...it's not field filled with Adonises either.

it could be that in some way men do not want women to be funny. They want them as an audience, not as rivals

This I have experienced. Won't argue with it. However, it applies to other male dominated areas I've been in. So not very special.

Men can tell jokes about what happened to John Wayne Bobbitt, but they don't want women doing so.

And? PMS jokes go over better among women when told by women. See also: gay jokes, "black people can be so..." jokes.

Damn. I meant to go on, but there's so much that needs quoting, and my head really hurts.

Okay, one more and then I'm going to go lie down...

Whereas with a man you may freely say of him that he is lousy in the sack, or a bad driver, or an inefficient worker, and still wound him less deeply than you would if you accused him of being deficient in the humor department.

REALLY? I think that begs for a survey.


Lee - Dec 08, 2006 10:25:47 am PST #5139 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Actually, honestly, I still might have to do that. You're not going to the post office today, right?

Nope. Monday, probably.