Just out of curiosity..

[Christiern]

I ask my fellow members to go to this thread and tell me why Jim locked it. If possible, perhaps we can be shown the forum rules that forbid attempts at humor.

Seriously, I really would like to know why this particular thread was locked, especially given many others that were simply overlooked/

Ever heard of flying tits, Jim?

Edited December 19, 2010 by Christiern

[Aggie87]

Talking about "tits" is probably the type of thread that keeps a website such as this primarily boys only, which isn't such a good thing, IMO.

Is that the sort of topic of discussion that happens in mixed company in person?

[BERIGAN]

Talking about "tits" is probably the type of thread that keeps a website such as this primarily boys only, which isn't such a good thing, IMO.

Is that the sort of topic of discussion that happens in mixed company in person?

Nah, it's the fact it's mainly a jazz forum, and as I have said many times in the past, 99.9999% of women do not like jazz!

[Larry Kart]

Chris: Jim can speak for himself or not respond, if he chooses, but did you really think that album cover was funny in itself? If so, I'm baffled.

Or were you trying to make some sort of oblique comment about other album-cover threads (IIRC you've expressed your displeasure about them the past) -- starting that new new thread with that post as another way of saying that you found those other threads to be, so to speak, pointless?

[Christiern]

Larry, are you guys serious?

By the way, my next door neighbor, a bird lover, once had this book on his coffee table, in plain sight! It somehow never occurred ti him that he ought hide it when women dropped by.

He may still have that book—i had better warn him.

We had "freedom fries" in a hot second, I don't think it took long for the republicans to change the spelling of "estate" to d-e-a-t-h, so what is taking so long to rename these little birds?

Sorry, Jim. You'd better lock or eliminate this thread before, you know... a lady... sees it.

[Larry Kart]

Yes, Chris, I get it -- "tits" are a kind of bird and a slang term for breasts. You find that amusing? I know a guy named Dick who...

I'll be here all week.

[Big Beat Steve]

Sorry, Jim. You'd better lock or eliminate this thread before, you know... a lady... sees it.

Or, worse still ... what if that lady was real, real "big" ("big", what an euphemism to end all euphemisms...) and saw that on this forum historical music such as "Big FAT Mamas Are Back In Style Again" or "I Want A Big FAT Mama (with the meat shaking on her bones)" were discussed here in all earnest and with nary a trace of salivating? Horror of horrors! Outcry of rage about violating the p.c. use of words!

Edited December 19, 2010 by Big Beat Steve

[Christiern]

Guess we are on different wavelengths, Larry. I'm sorry for being so terribly new-fashioned.

Well, gotta go—there's this mountain, you see, and I feel compelled to go against the PC flow and cut it down to a mole hill.

[J.A.W.]

I'm with Larry here. An adolescent might find this kind of humour funny. Nothing to do with PC.

[.:.impossible]

Yuck yuck yuck

[Christiern]

Was that a snowbreast I saw flying past my window?

Am I the only one who finds this "ado" to be about nothing?

[Larry Kart]

Was that a snowbreast I saw flying past my window?

Am I the only one who finds this "ado" to be about nothing?

No, you're not.

[Jazzmoose]

Here to lodge formal protest.

[Big Al]

You tell 'em, Chris! If I were you, I wouldn't stand for it. I'd leave! Immediately! No humor on a jazz site, what are they thinking? In fact, I think I'll leave! Except that I'm never here, so it wouldn't make a difference. But not you! You're different! You're important! Everyone hangs on your every word here! And by golly, if you say there's no humor, then there just isn't any humor here! You're so much better than this place! Truly, I don't understand how you put up with us peons year after after, day after day! Look at that! I don't even know how to spell peon! And yet you still put up with us! Even after you leave, you come back to us! I don't know why, but maybe... just maybe... you like us! You really, really like us! Truth be told, I don't know how you deal with the pressure on a daily basis: putting up with this humorless burg, which is obviously overrun by conser.... oops, don't wanna be un-PC and say the "R" word outside of the politics forum. Sorry, folks. I tend to get this way when I'm in the presence of greatness. And Chris must be great, otherwise he wouldn't deign to grace us with his presence even after we've driven him from our lowly submissiveness year after year.

Please don't leave us again, Chris. But if you do, we will miss you oh so terribly because you are truly one of the greats! You've been among the top echelon of jazz greats. Without you through which to live vicariously, whatever shall we do? Wherever shall we go?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a rats tit.

[Christiern]

If the erection is still there at midnight (Texas time), see your doctor.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Here to lodge formal protest.

NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!!! there's more than E Buzz Miller subtlety here.

[7/4]

You tell 'em, Chris! If I were you, I wouldn't stand for it. I'd leave! Immediately! No humor on a jazz site, what are they thinking? In fact, I think I'll leave! Except that I'm never here, so it wouldn't make a difference. But not you! You're different! You're important! Everyone hangs on your every word here! And by golly, if you say there's no humor, then there just isn't any humor here! You're so much better than this place! Truly, I don't understand how you put up with us peons year after after, day after day! Look at that! I don't even know how to spell peon! And yet you still put up with us! Even after you leave, you come back to us! I don't know why, but maybe... just maybe... you like us! You really, really like us! Truth be told, I don't know how you deal with the pressure on a daily basis: putting up with this humorless burg, which is obviously overrun by conser.... oops, don't wanna be un-PC and say the "R" word outside of the politics forum. Sorry, folks. I tend to get this way when I'm in the presence of greatness. And Chris must be great, otherwise he wouldn't deign to grace us with his presence even after we've driven him from our lowly submissiveness year after year.

Please don't leave us again, Chris. But if you do, we will miss you oh so terribly because you are truly one of the greats! You've been among the top echelon of jazz greats. Without you through which to live vicariously, whatever shall we do? Wherever shall we go?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a rats tit.

Now there's some humor...sarcasm even!

[Hot Ptah]

I took Chris' thread to be a comment on how we have a thread for almost every conceivable type of album cover, including some topics which are quite narrow and obscure. I thought it was funny.

However, I have found several times in the past that indirect humor does not always translate well over the computer, just as tone of voice is not always accurately perceived by the online recipient. I have had old friends act genuinely offended at what I thought were my obvious (and to my mind brilliant) online attempts at satire.

[Christiern]

Thanks HP, it is one thing to not get another's sense of humor, quite another to over-react and press the panic button. Frankly, I think Jim's imitation of another board's infamous Gorts was uncalled for. He accepts shit, fuck and whatever, but has a hissyfit when he sees "tits." I think those little birds are kinda cute.

Hey, Big Al, did it go limp by midnight?

[Bright Moments]

i was too late. i was going to post a few kate smith and mildred bailey album covers in chris's thread -

- think about it

[AllenLowe]

big Al, you're outta line, and this is another case (though it happens less than it used to) of a disagreement turning into a personal attack. If I were a moderator (when Pigs Fly, Jim is thinking) I would delete your post

[Man with the Golden Arm]

very true!

and the fact that a Supertramp thread still remains and we don't yet have a forum for monochromatic covers is illogical!

Edited December 20, 2010 by Man with the Golden Arm

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

hey that better not be a nock against Supertramp!!!

[cih]

Well this kind of joke is bound to have its knockers - but you just have to take these things on the chest.

Also to be fair, there are many other threads on here that could be used to repel women if they fell into the wrong hands

[Christiern]

If reposted with tat for tit, would it pass the PC test?