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Originally Posted by glatt

I'm guilty.

I thought LJ's initial post was mildly funny.

could be mildly funny, but horribly crude, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by glatt

Jeb's response that "She's dead, you jerk." is the standard response (a lie) to a "mother joke." I didn't think it was true. Apparently neither did LJ.

understood. I took it at face value, having no other good reason to believe otherwise.

Originally Posted by glatt

Then LJ's comment about the mom after that made me snort. Most people would have let it drop at that point because of the very slim possibility that the sister really was dead, but LJ is confident in his BS detector. He figured it was a lie and he went for the big laugh. I found it to be quite funny in a shocking sort of way.

same here, except quite shocking. different senses of humor.

Originally Posted by glatt

Maybe the sister did die in the WTC. If so, then what LJ said was terrible. But I think it's unlikely. This thread has me wondering though.

Here I have to agree with what lj said. if the sister did die in the WTC, then terrible. But if I put myself in J's shoes, and my sister who I know didn't die in WTC were the subject of the same remarks, I would still find them crude, offensive and unfunny. The actual facts about the sister doesn't change that for me.

Golden rule, Occam's razor ... why be mean, unnecessarily?