-=> Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley <=-

 AH> [re Freud]
 JB>  I know his theories were ridiculed relentlessly

 AH>            Hmm.  I imagine there was some academic debate
 AH> over them & feelings may have run high.  As for ridicule,
 AH> however, I'm not sure.  Perhaps the movie makers thought
 AH> their audience would find the latter more entertaining....

Hmm... Whatever lead me to believe he had more dissension than acceptance is up
for debate I guess, but I was under the impression that *only* a decade before
his death, was there any substantial validity accredited to his process. Now,
there's an odd movement against Darwin's theories to this day, which is likely
stronger than Freud's opposition, but the way I heard it, both these guys were
called quacks more than brilliant through most of the remainder of their lives.


 AH> throws a pie in someone else's face I'm reminded of the
 AH> food fights I enjoyed in grade eight.  Gallows humour is
 AH> for those who have been there.  Puns are for those who have
 AH> at least some awareness of the subleties of language.  It
 AH> seems to me that not everyone does... unless you hang out a
 AH> sign saying "THIS IS A JOKE.  LAUGH HERE."  :-))

And if you have to explain a joke... The big picture here is, you enjoyed food
fights. The wonder begins with who's been to a gallows? Well... The ones meant
for criminals. I imagine "front-line" workers and those in the
medical field
might enjoy a sickening (to the rest of us) humour. Still, I watched a movie
about Gacy. I found nothing funny "ha-ha" about it or what I
learned about the
man. Funny, in "Somethin' aint right about him" but I remember taking my
beer-buddy out after work the day they carried out his sentence. She didn't
know who he was. I still proposed a "Good-Bye Gacy" toast, and
after I parlayed
a few of the details of his life, she reluctantly drank to his death.

 AH> [re fear-mongering in the media about earthquakes etc.]
 JB>  'Smokers in California will have the last laugh. When the
 JB>  next "big one" hits, they will all be in a doorway smokin'
 JB>  a butt.'


 AH>            Meanwhile, BC smokers will hide in the alley
 AH> because smoking is now forbidden near windows & doorways.
 AH> AFAIC the alley may be safer... [chuckle].

I looked down a few alleys in downtown Vancouver, and they didn't seem to be
smoking tobacco. 


 JB>  How does this affect me? Your last shaker closed off
 JB>  the geothermal pipe to our Banff Springs, and now we
 JB>  can't take a soothing mineral bath in our hot springs.


 AH>            Wow.  I didn't know that!  The news is rife with
 AH> gloomy predictions about natural disasters & with heart-
 AH> rending tales about such occurrences, yet we hear very
 AH> little about what is going on between BC & Ontario... [wry
 AH> grin].

We keep spouting off, but maybe you egocentrics just don't *listen!* 

Just today on The Weather Network, we were under a tornado warning at the
bottom of the screen, and barely a mention of a "severe thunderstorm
warning"
on their newscast was spent before they started moaning about the how the
"sticky humidity was returning to the Toronto area". I almost drove into a
tornado (Everything was in place, but rotation.) in central Saskatchewan,
because the same TV channel seemed to drop further mention of a warning issued
that morning. Us 'flatlanders' get used to you big city types. 


... James
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