But why would ignore a thread I quite enjoy, and showed me a different point of view? (Even if I think it's overblown and funny.)I wasn't making fun of the thread, but actually saying what I like about it. It's a Keillor-bashing thread on a folk forum--hell, I love it. I merely forgot it wasn't quite anonymous, SF.

Why would I turn off phc since I like it too--because it's not what somebody else would want it to be?

I remembered one of those observations I liked so much--on the last joke-show I heard Keillor wondered whether some of the stories in the bible weren't meant with some humour--the story of Job, for instance. But that some of the sense of it was lost along the way, or (I'd add) we just don't expect it to be funny. That's quite good, the delivery was excellent, the unpretentious pause giving just enough thinking time for people to come up with a few of their own jokes on the premise. (Mine was about how Jesus was unable to perform miracles in his hometown, a favorite detail.) The painter de Kooning had the same reaction to his Women paintings. Coming out of the grandiose intentions of Abstract expressionism, nobody noticed they were funny. Where I grew up, my hometown, so to speak, criticism isn't necesarily hostile, or unappreciative.