Jeezle, some of y'all really had your knickers in a knot!

I wonder if it is a "family culture" difference--by "family culture" I mean something that can't be named like Protestant or WASP or Muslim or Norizbeckian or whatever, but something that a group that's related recognizes.

Geez, in my family we tell gruesome jokes at the point of death. [I am not making this up, ask me about m'dad's deathbed and then my mom's].... It is a way of holding our fears close, yet marching onward with our heads held high. YOu shoulda seen us as....several episodes of bizarre and frightening events, and we laughed our way through it, and cried in between.

So all of you who were offended, stay out of threads that promise to offend you. For all of you who like to laugh through the tears, or who balance their sorrow with laughter at [sick] or [bad taste] jokes, bring 'em on.

Maybe YOU or YOU or YOU find this distasteful, but this thread was labelled quite accurately: jokes in worst possible taste.