Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:How so, Maggers? Was it, "To the Moon, Alice!!" But I always figgered that the joke was never in a =million years= would Ralph hit Alice. She knew it, he knew it, and =we= knew it. Ralph was a big blowhard (albeit with a big heart, which he showed on occasion.)
I found it to be REALLY REALLY CREEPY. I didn't like the characters; I didn't think they were funny. The threat of violence is not funny, whether or not the fist is actually thrown.
Keep in mind I grew up in a house where the threat of violence was always in the air. I spent the first 20 years of my life walking on egg shells, except for the summers, when roaming the pine barrens of Long Island saved me.
So the last thing I could think to laugh at is someone threatening to hurt a family member. Too close to home.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd