Come On Guys, Use TIC

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EM_Puma wrote:

EM_Puma wrote:
Last week someone here posts a thread that Braden Hansen has a punctured lung caused by Riley Stephenson's kicking of a PAT. The post sounded strange, but I wasn't sure and I immediately looked at KSL, TBS, DesNews and SLTrib to see if anyone else was reporting this same injury. I saw nothing, so I called my son-in-law, Braden's first cousin and asked him if he had heard anything through the family. He hadn't, so I guessed I'd wait unti the next day to see the on-line paper accounts of injuries. My son-in-law though is now concerned and calls his and Branden's grandmother and shocks the snot out of the very senior lady asking if she knew that Braden had a punctured lung. She, very concerned for her grandson's health, calls him and finds out there is no merit to the story.



Of course now I see that the whole thing was a joke on how bad Riley Stephenson was kicking PAT's and was what is called a tongue-in-cheek (TIC)expression. Normal protocol when you make a statement such that someone is actually injured in the public forum and it is a joke, please put at the bottom "TIC" so we don't end up causing the coronary of a very senior grandmother.

Uh, normal protocol is to get the joke. It was so obvious to everyone else that it is even funnier that you didn't get it. Sorry but you are just making yourself look silly here. You remind me of my 19 year old daughter when she doesn't get a joke that everyone else does.



Don't you think that you should have stopped after no major local news source had anything about? If anyone had a punctured lung it would be news. It isn't our fault you caused a "very senior grandmother" to have a coronary. Take your lumps, you blew it, and move on. But thanks for this. It gave me a great laugh this morning.



Or maybe your whole post is TIC and I just don't get it. That would be even funnier. :roll:

Well then the jokes on me. I'm okay with that, but that's the fundamental problem with written word that you can't hear tonation of voice, etc. to have that help to always know. My son got it that it was a joke when I asked him later and I didn't. I read the post to my son-in-law and he didn't hear the joke in it either and so I'm at least not the only one on the planet.

Yes, the joke is on you. But that's okay. Everyone of us has totally missed the boat on something like this before. The difference is that instead of laughing at yourself, you tried to put the blame on all of us.



I agree that if someone read it to me that I might not get the joke, especially if it was read with the tone that it wasn't a joke. But if you saw it on the page, with the smiley face at the end, it was obvious it was.

IQTMPOA

Schmoe wrote:
IQTMPOA

You were two off from mine ;) Dad's joining us in 5...4...3...2...

redneckjedi wrote:
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Now that is funny right there!

northerncougar wrote:
I agree that if someone read it to me that I might not get the joke, especially if it was read with the tone that it wasn't a joke. But if you saw it on the page, with the smiley face at the end, it was obvious it was.

Just wait until you hit 50 and need reading glasses and expect that if you don't have them on that you're going to be able to see what the hellow kind of expression the cougar has on his face. In the old days (LOL) when they used smiley faces, it was easier to tell without my reading glasses. I thought the puma was constipated!

EM_Puma wrote:

I agree that if someone read it to me that I might not get the joke, especially if it was read with the tone that it wasn't a joke. But if you saw it on the page, with the smiley face at the end, it was obvious it was.

Just wait until you hit 50 and need reading glasses and expect that if you don't have them on that you're going to be able to see what the hellow kind of expression the cougar has on his face. In the old days (LOL) when they used smiley faces, it was easier to tell without my reading glasses. I thought the puma was constipated!

I'm not too far from that and I can already tell my eyesight isn't what it used to be. Getting old isn't for wimps.

byutx wrote:
TIC?

Tongue in cheek