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Post by Forgetful Minor on Sept 15, 2006 13:56:50 GMT -5
 ...but I don't get it. Being a fan of Final Fantasy, it made me think of him. Is it trying to say that young males who play the violin are homosexual? Is the 'practicing' supposed to be the key to the punch-line? Is this offensive? I'm sorry if it is, I'm just so lost on this I have no idea. I feel like an idiot. |
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Post by jules on Sept 15, 2006 18:29:06 GMT -5
I believe it to be a late 20th century example of a crude attempt to make humour from the suggestion that the bowing action of a violin player is of a similar nature to male self pleasure.
It's a bit tacky (no pun intended) and is not directed at fiddlers in general. The same joke could be equallly applied to a female violinst and indeed a male violinist of a hetrosexual disposition and result in the same form of non humour.
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Post by rue on Sept 15, 2006 23:21:18 GMT -5
I think the sadder part of it is that someone liked it enough to put it online.
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Post by liederling on Sept 16, 2006 18:16:54 GMT -5
Well put, Uncle E. It's just crass & vaguely stupid imho; the cartoonist obviously hasn't observed much actual bow action.  ("tacky"-heh) |
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Post by decklin on Sept 17, 2006 10:34:32 GMT -5
...wow. I thought it was hilarious. Am I the only one here who thinks the phrase "practicing homosexual" is absurd and demeaning and deserves to be made fun of? Or am I just the only one who reads Cat and Girl? Out of context, I can see how you could come up with some completely off-the-wall interpretation like that, but, if you know what the author writes about... Here's the original (the title is "Four Cartoons Rejected by the New Yorker", which is a big part of the joke). |
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Post by Forgetful Minor on Sept 17, 2006 13:41:35 GMT -5
...wow. I thought it was hilarious. Am I the only one here who thinks the phrase "practicing homosexual" is absurd and demeaning and deserves to be made fun of? Or am I just the only one who reads Cat and Girl? Out of context, I can see how you could come up with some completely off-the-wall interpretation like that, but, if you know what the author writes about... Here's the original (the title is "Four Cartoons Rejected by the New Yorker", which is a big part of the joke). I'm very familiar with Cat & Girl and I love it. The whole New Yorker rejection thing just didn't strike me as being very funny or, as in the case of this one comic, didn't make sense to me. Perhaps if I had heard the phrase "practicing homosexual" used in a different context before I read the comic then I may have understood. Thanks for clearing this up Uncle Else. |
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Post by decklin on Sept 17, 2006 19:29:26 GMT -5
Ah. I didn't think about not having heard the phrase at all before. Certainly makes sense.
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Post by liederling on Sept 17, 2006 19:39:26 GMT -5
Well, context IS everything and clearly I should've asked for the provenance of said cartoon before commenting....live & learn.
->Jab at the New Yorker: v. funny. Cat & Girl is great website & thanks for pointing it out.
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Post by Owen from Final Fantasy on Sept 17, 2006 23:12:18 GMT -5
*Cough*
I can't remember if it was Fifth Business or a John Irving thing, but there's a character, I believe, in "A Prayer For Owen Meany", named Johnny Wheelright.
He's asexual, and he overhears his neighbours referring to him as a "non-practising homosexual". I don't know if this expression is part of the lexicon, but I've certainly applied it myself to a few people I've met, and most of them were musicians.
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Post by liederling on Sept 21, 2006 20:38:01 GMT -5
Novels! Davies! Irving! Cool.
Fifth Business fascinated me for a number of years, & I enjoyed Garp, though a bit sheepish about admitting I've haven't quite gotten round to Owen Meany.
Why--I've no idea; I mean come on, Religion/Belief as Myth; the magic of self invention? If these two aren't akin, nothing is. No excuses left for me. This Johny Wheelwright, does he remain a virgin till the end?
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Post by liederling on Sept 21, 2006 20:53:38 GMT -5
OMG-
I knew of this guy who was a practicing homosexual at the top of his field, until he got his licence revoked for misdemeanors in professional conduct. Tsk-tsk.
He refuses to take the penalty and so remains an onanist, today.
But seriously, I've a friend who, although happily married for ~5 years, occasionally complains that she regrets not having had any relationships with women before getting "swept off" by her husband. I sometimes irk her by calling her an "un-proofed" bisexual (as in bread). But she laughs.
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