Altzhiemers is a terrible disease...

[Joe Guy]

I agree with Jim.

Too many people can't seem to get that what Clint did was a joke. It was an attempt at political humor and maybe not all people got it, and of course, lemming democrats had to criticize his performance because it was anti-Obama.

I'm an Obama supporter and I enjoyed his skit.

Some people need to learn to not take everything that is said at a political convention so seriously. Especially when an actor is saying it.

Like when Ronald Reagan spoke, for example...

I'm sure that Clint doesn't give a shit really care what you think.

Loosen up, all of you uptight party line supporters that accept whatever idea comes out of your political party's spokesman's mouths!

I'd insert a graph here but I don't want to upset Scooter.

[Scooter]

People "got it", Joe. They just didn't think it was any good, as humour or anything else.

[Joe Guy]

People "got it", Joe. They just didn't think it was any good, as humour or anything else.

And you speak for everyone who "got it" but didn't like it.

I see.

But not everyone becomes humor challenged when a joke makes fun of their political party's candidate.

[Gob]

He just threw something together that he thought would be funny, and it didn't work....

Glad you admit it fell flat Jim.


Just like my "Alzheimers" joke did.

[Scooter]

And you speak for everyone who "got it" but didn't like it.

I suppose about as much as you are able to read the minds of those who didn't like it in order to conclude they didn't get it.

[Miles]

I think humor is basically what you perceive it to be. Many people in the US don't see the humor in Benny Hill or Monthy Python while they think the Three Stoges are funny. It is just a matter of perspective and during an election year things are just, well, somewhat out of kilter.

[Joe Guy]

And you speak for everyone who "got it" but didn't like it.

I suppose about as much as you are able to read the minds of those who didn't like it in order to conclude they didn't get it.

You're wrong.

With humor 'Not liking it' is equal to 'Not getting it'.

[Sean]

With humor 'Not liking it' is equal to 'Not getting it'.

No it isn't Joe. I completely 'get' Benny Hill, Seinfeld, The Three Stooges, The League of Gentlemen and many others. I just don't find them funny. They don't appeal to my particular sense of humour.

That's like saying, "If you don't like the humour I like it's because you don't get it".

[loCAtek]

Well, taste in anything artistic isn't arguable.

The point in having Clint Eastwood come out, was to energize the crowd with giving them today's John Wayne: An American Hero.

[The Hen]

Well-known US film critic Roger Ebert voiced what many others in Hollywood thought, lamenting his performance even while the legendary Eastwood was still on stage. "Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic.

"He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainme ... 6463045363

[MajGenl.Meade]

Good old Sunday Times in SA this past weekend headlined their story of the speed "Unforgivenable"

... which I thought a little witty, albeit unintentionally so. But it did distract us from the shooting massacre of 50 or so miners by the SAPS.

Meade

[The Hen]

[oldr_n_wsr]

Eastwood's appearance was awful, and pardon me for raining on this parade, but comments about Alzheimers (or dementia -- confirmation of Alzheimers itself is actually only available post-mortem) should never be in a category called "Laffs!" And it's not just "old age," either.

My incredible, hard-working, brilliant father has dementia -- seeing him struggle, becoming a shadow of himself, unable to do so many of the things he loved to do, is the most painful thing I have ever experienced. I cannot begin to explain how awful it is --- i'm sure some of you have experienced it. It is definitely not a laughing matter.

My grandmother had dimentia for the last 5 years of her life (she lasted until 96). It was defineately not a laughing matter. But it was interesting when she thought she was back in Germany during WWI and thought I was one of her brothers. First hand history lesson like I was there.
Toward the end it was just plain horrible watching this incredibly strong (both physically and mentally) lady who survived most of the 20th and some of the 21st deteriorate so rapidly. My heart goes out to you Guin and to your father. May he find peace. Cherish the memories.

[liberty]

Eastwood's appearance was awful, and pardon me for raining on this parade, but comments about Alzheimers (or dementia -- confirmation of Alzheimers itself is actually only available post-mortem) should never be in a category called "Laffs!" And it's not just "old age," either.

My incredible, hard-working, brilliant father has dementia -- seeing him struggle, becoming a shadow of himself, unable to do so many of the things he loved to do, is the most painful thing I have ever experienced. I cannot begin to explain how awful it is --- i'm sure some of you have experienced it. It is definitely not a laughing matter.

I am sorry Guin, I can’t know how you feel, but I do empathize with you. There is some hope the research being done at the Stanford Medical School Research Center will help or even reduce the effect of dementia.

[Guinevere]

Thanks gentlemen, I appreciate the empathy.

[dales]

I think humor is basically what you perceive it to be. Many people in the US don't see the humor in Benny Hill or Monthy Python while they think the Three Stoges are funny. It is just a matter of perspective and during an election year things are just, well, somewhat out of kilter.

I like the Stooges and Monty Python and things really are out of kilter.

[Gob]

A Centreville man who hung an empty chair from a tree in his backyard with a sign reading "Nobama" attached to it denies that it was meant to represent any inference to lynching or had any racist connotations, though he did manage to "get on the radar" of the Secret Service.



Doug Burger said he was "Eastwooding," according to local Washington news outlet WJLA.

"I loved Clint Eastwood's speech" at the Republican nominating convention, he said.

Mr. Eastwood delivered a free-form speech on the final night of the convention in which he addressed an invisible President Obama supposedly sitting in a chair next to him on the stage, drawing applause from some but ridicule from others. "Saturday Night Live" lampooned the incident during its TV season premiere on Saturday.

Mr. Burger said that people always steal his political signs, so he thought he'd at least make them work to take it away this time, and that he failed to see what all the fuss is about.

"I am not a racist in any fashion," he said. "I know how to build a noose, really. If I wanted to make a noose, I could do that. I did not. I had no intention for that to occur."

He has taken the chair down from the tree, but said he felt the whole hubbub was "really an attack on free speech."



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[Lord Jim]

I think humor is basically what you perceive it to be. Many people in the US don't see the humor in Benny Hill or Monthy Python while they think the Three Stoges are funny. It is just a matter of perspective and during an election year things are just, well, somewhat out of kilter.

Big fan of Python, never cared for either Benny Hill or the Three Stooges....

(I didn't think the stooges were funny even when I was nine years old...watching somebody get poked in the eyes over and over just didn't strike me as a whole lot of yucks)

For some reason my father thought Benny Hill was hysterical....

Never got it....

[Gob]

He only claimed he was watching Benny Hill for the laffs...

[oldr_n_wsr]

Getting stoned and watching Benny Hill was many a nights past time.