Not quite sure I follow you, Carol. I went back and read the original post and Nerd's posts. Perhaps I'm reading between the lines (which is a reflection on me) but the opening comments sounded like they were said as humorous, with obvious exagerations. That's why I took them as being funny. My take. Some of Nerds comments sounded kinda mean-spirited, and certainly not meant to be humorous. As I say, it's all in the delivery, and in personal interpretation. The first list sounded like a lot of other lists I've read over the years, where people are poking fun at themselves. (My take) Nerd's comments sounded like someone from the outside making comments that weren't meant to be funny.

Truth is, you could make a list about any group which could be good-natured kidding around, or mean-spirited. When you're just reading text on a computer screen it's easy to missinterpret the intent of a posting. I consider myself a Midwesterner at heart, and can laugh about what seems to me to be good-natured kidding around. At the same time, I guess my hackles rise, if I think that people are saying things only to belittle some other group.

And then, I can be dead wrong, too. That's one of the qualities of us Midwesterners..

Jerry