From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: Vogts for Women
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 13:01:38 +0100



Greg wrote


> what a shock, dave is still playing the authority 
> of that which is humorous.


What a shock, Greg is still being boring and predictable.

Whether or not something is funny is a matter of opinion. 
People laugh at different things. In my opinion, Andy had 
a "go" at us Scots, and what he had to say was really _funny_ . 
The way he credited me with a score draw - "Putting the insults 
into football [soccer] parlance, this would give us what is 
known as a score draw [England 1, Scotland 1]...something unlikely 
to ever happen in a real match..." was  _funny_ . John Anderson
also made an attempt at humour, and, in my opinion, it was
an attempt which failed. John Anderson then suggested that 
I had failed to "get" his "joke". To which I responded


>> I realised you were probably under the delusion that
>> you had said something funny, but your attempt at humour
>> depended on a complete mis-reading of Andy's message, 
>> and I thought that was worth being pointed out. 


In other words, I was saying that John Anderson didn't
"get" Andy's (high quality) joke, and, although I "got"
John Anderson's feeble attempt, it was best ignored.
I ignored his "joke", but dealt with the real (not 
pretend) misunderstanding on which it was based.


Dave C