Hi. I left for a few months and went to the EZ board, but I could not resist coming back. This board is definitely more interesting (and loads faster).

I have to say that watching certain extreme doomers and extreme pollies "bash" each other on every other thread reminds me a little of watching Laural and Hardy beat each other up, or watching the 3 stooges poke one another in the eyes. It is only entertaining because it is someone else.

Someone someday will write a book about the "social dynamics" of the web. I will be one of the first to buy it.

By-the-way, I have almost finished using up my 300 gallons of $1.20 per gallon gas. What a blessing! Now for the rice...

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), June 22, 2000

Answers

I personally never watched the three stooges as a child, perferring intellectual humor instead.

Not.

Woop Whoop Whoop! Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), June 22, 2000.

I personally never watched the three stooges as a child, perferring intellectual humor instead.

Not.

Your analogy is most appropriate. Woop Whoop Whoop! Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), June 22, 2000.

Every once in a while, I go a little nuts...

Like now...

Eny... Meny... Miney... HEY MOE!

BANG!

-- Lethal Weapon (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 22, 2000.

I love the stooges. Apparently it's a guy thing, though. Most women just don't appreciate them. My favorite episode is the Stooges in Orbit. Does anyone know the name of the episode where they go ice fishing? There was another one where they ended up as doctors in some hospital that was pretty funny, too.

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), June 22, 2000.

No, women in general do not like it. It's a male pubescent thing.Like torturing animals and pulling the wings off of flys.

And sexually abusing women in Central Park. They think it's fun, funny etc, I liken it to what girls go through in puberty where they will be giggling uncontrollably one minute and crying their eyes out the next.

You don't want to have a toddler watch them, they see people laughing about someone hitting someone else in the head with a hammer, and in their limited minds decide to do the same so they can get laughs.

It certainly shows the lack of empathy pubescent males posses.

-- Cherri (s@b.c), June 23, 2000.

Regarding the notion that only young males watch the Three Stooges, I must quote Garfield:

"I resemble that remark!"

I am a female & I watched the Three Stooges as a kid, along with my brother & sister. Wish I could find it on the air more often nowadays. (BTW, I think I have the Stooges in outer space on videotape. My mom taped it for me since, she knew I loved the Stooges!) I must be one of those females with male genetic matter in me (but I'm all girl!), 'cuz I not only love the Stooges but I love sports & politics. Yikes! There has never been anything funnier than the Stooges, as far as I'm concerned. It's where my brother learned to slam my sister's head in the trunk, which he did.

Stooges forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Daisy Jane (deeekstrand@yahoo.com), June 23, 2000.

Favorite episode: "Disorder in the Court".

Frank

-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.cam), June 23, 2000.

Where else could you have learned offensive and defensive tactics like the Two-Finger Poke In The Eye, the Vertical-Hand-In-Front-Of-The-Nose Blocking procedure for the Two-Finger Poke In The Eye, and the Serial Slap?

And where else could you have learned the truth about why fire engines are red?

(ahem) Fire engines are red because:

The are twelve inches in a ruler. Queen Elizabeth is a ruler. Queen Elizabeth is also a boat. Boats sail on the sea. The sea has fishes. Fishes have fins. The Finns fought the Russians. The Russians are red. And that's why fire engines are red, 'cause they're rushin' all over. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. (From a Three Stooges Trading Card, circa 1960)

Well, it's probably a lot funnier when you're nine years old.

Oh, and Jose -- don't fill your tank up with the rice when you're finished with the gas. Doesn't work. Trust me on this one.

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), June 23, 2000.

It's a male pubescent thing.Like torturing animals and pulling the wings off of flys. -Cherri

WHY-I-OUGHTTA...!

Where else could you have learned offensive and defensive tactics like the Two-Finger Poke In The Eye, the Vertical-Hand-In-Front-Of- The-Nose Blocking procedure for the Two-Finger Poke In The Eye, and the Serial Slap? -"I'm Here, I'm There"

Good point! Nyuk nyuk nyuk

-- CD (costavike@hotmail.com), June 23, 2000.