Wow, what a lot of additions to this thread overnight — so this is going back a bit.

Lox - I did get what you meant by 'pignant' you know: if you recall, I described it as an 'adventitiously felicitous TYPO' or some such — but it was, alliterativly with 'patronising', one of the triggers for my regrettable use of 'pillock'.

The point to draw attention to is that my title for this thread [I was OP you will rediscover if you check] is interrogative. I am concerned with the questions of how much time may lapse — & additionally, by obvious implication, as to whether there are any topics which can never be appropriate subjects for humour. I, as will have been gathered, would rubricate Anne Frank as one such — a real person who exemplified a defiant survival spirit in the most adverse and intolerable of situations who nevertheless came to a tragic end. But not everyone will agree. And I do remember saying once to my late wife, "Here's a joke I just made up. If I had been born in Warsaw instead of in London then I shouldn't be a theatre critic, I'd be a lampshade", & she was horrified & exclaimed "How can you make a joke of such a thing?!" (she had no Jewish connections). So who is always consistent at that? But Anne Frank nevertheless remains out of bounds so far as I am concerned. But if there were no disagreements there would be no threads on any forums, would there?