A gallery of Mythers...

[vinylrake]

I am saddened that I think I recognize the source of the 2nd avatar(One of Cronenberg's "Scanners" films?), but no the first.

[Two Saks]

LOL!! I think it is from Scanners! My head feels like that when LMOTH Deathmatch is called on Knuckles after 1 am.

Perhaps the first avatar led to the second?

Avatar #1: "I will be your love slave for a week"
Avatar #2: *** BOOM ***

[vinylrake]

Heh TS, you know I was trying to think of a way to bring up the possible connection between the two avatars but couldn't think of a PG-appropriate way to do it.

Well done. Maybe we should start a seperate thread to do some freudian analysis of Baak's (or everyone's) avatars?

For starters we have...

Baak: Robot, Yin/Yang, Skimpily clad anime girl, man with head exploding...
TS: A series of increasingly disturbing looking men culminating in a large naked fat man at a computer
MT: A cheesburger, The Burger King...

[Two Saks]

Whatever tho, I increasingly find you guys humour is very different from my own.

Interesting to hear that Elf. Growing up in Northern California (the ultra conservative SF Bay Area, er hum hum) British humor was virtually worshiped by yours truly and friends (do you concure Baak, NKI???) - Monty Python, Faulty Towers, etc... British music too. I can't tell you how many music arguments I engaged in defending the idea British bands kicked @$$ over American. But as VR said, humor is very very subjective, never know where someone stands and laughs. As I get older, I tend to be less subtle, that's all.

[The Elfoid_TFS]

My humour is pretty different to my peers. Hard to explain it, but I'm different. I wondered if I had mild asbergers syndrome a while back. I don't know whats up with me, but I've got some minor defect.

I see pieces of English humour in yours, but its an interesting Anglo-American mixture.

[Baak]

British humor was virtually worshiped by yours truly and friends (do you concure Baak, NKI???) - Monty Python, Faulty Towers, etc... British music too.

Most definitely. Personally I find most American humor tends to be very lowest-common-denominator - unfunny, crass, increasingly mean-spirited and surprisingly dependent on body functions, etc. - whereas British humor in general is so much funnier. I think Shrek is the pinnacle of American humor to a lot of Americans - which scares the crap out of me.

The two Faulty Towers I remember as exceptionally funny were the one with the German Guests staying and Basil got a concussion, and the one where he is trying to impress these folks and has to go into town several times getting gourmet food from a friend of his and his tiny little car breaks down (it's exasperatingly funny when he thrashes it in the middle of the street with that tree branch!).

I still watch all the Red Dwarf episodes I taped long ago and they are still incredibly funny and amazingly well written. Monty Python's Flying Circus was definitely a big part of our humor - I believe HS has the entire MPFC collection on DVD. I still remember the very first time I saw the Holy Grail movie with my brother - I was crying on the floor laughing 'til it hurt during the sword duel with the Black Knight and in dozens of other scenes (the only thing I didn't like about that movie was the ending).

Of course I'll never forget a bunch of us going to see "The Meaning of Life" when it came out - some of that movie was pretty bad, but other parts were so over-the-top you just had to laugh...

It's only waffer theen...

[The Elfoid_TFS]

It's spelt 'Fawlty Towers' isn't it :S?

Monty Python isn't stereotypical English humour, but its among the best.

The one thing America can't get right is sitcoms (situation comedies). The Simpsons is almost a sitcom, but not quite. Malcolm in the Middle, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and FRIENDS all come close, but don't have enough universal appeal to beat the UK at this. Father Tead, Only Fools and Horses, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, The Good Life, Fawlty Towers...English sitcom lists never end.

My personal favourite is probably Some Mothers Do Have 'em, simply because it is literally impossible not to laugh at least once out loud, even if you are on your own watching it - I've not seen any other sitcom have that effect.

[sillek]

How about this : Both American and British sitcoms s00k.

[The Elfoid_TFS]

How about this : Both American and British sitcoms s00k.

English sitcoms own you.

[Two Saks]

I think Shrek is the pinnacle of American humor to a lot of Americans - which scares the crap out of me.

Baak...almost agree totally with your post! But I must contend this exception, which of course is the reason why I'm posting

I think Shrek is a brilliant merging of kids/adults humor enjoying the same movie, for which it was intended. Yep, it's a big fat market but that is the market and they nailed it. I wouldn't place it as the best we Yanks have to offer, only the best in that catagory.

But what do I know about taste... I own "Team America", the very crude and brutally to the point humor I've always had an affection for.

aric balwin