When I first came upon this list, I thought O great, here's a group of people who don't take themselves so terribly serious, who can poke fun at their obsession. (Like I always considered "Beautiful suffering to be meant as a joke. I mean, we *know* there's nothing beautiful about suffering, it's just that some actors manage to look good while portraying it.)
It was that balance between serious threads and the light-hearted, funny or irreverent messages that made me feel so at home here. But now the lyst seems to have gone exclusively serious. Am I the only one missing the humorous threads?
Marian
Marian wrote:
When I first came upon this list, I thought O great, here's a group of people who don't take themselves so terribly serious, who can poke fun at their obsession. (Like I always considered "Beautiful suffering to be meant as a joke. I mean, we *know* there's nothing beautiful about suffering, it's just that some actors manage to look good while portraying it.)
It was that balance between serious threads and the light-hearted, funny or irreverent messages that made me feel so at home here. But now the lyst seems to have gone exclusively serious. Am I the only one missing the humorous threads?
By the Great and Immortal Penguin, you're right, Marian! What has come over us?
Una
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Marian de Haan wrote:
It was that balance between serious threads and the light-hearted, funny or irreverent messages that made me feel so at home here. But now the lyst seems to have gone exclusively serious. Am I the only one missing the humorous threads?
The serious/humorous ratio always fluctuates between 1 and -1. Whether this fluctuation is periodic, quasi-periodic or scale-free is as yet undetermined. I'd perform a power spectrum analysis on the archives to find out, but I'm afraid I have a penguin to baste.
Iain
In message 006c01c0a5b1$13441fc0$f28c49d5@marian-de-haan.multiweb.nl, Marian de Haan maya@multiweb.nl writes
It was that balance between serious threads and the light-hearted, funny or irreverent messages that made me feel so at home here. But now the lyst seems to have gone exclusively serious. Am I the only one missing the humorous threads?
It's a conspiracy to make Neil regret ever saying anything about thread hijack.
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