When The KingofHearts and I got married, the Bishop who married us gave one of those Advice for a Happy Marriage speeches - which is really just a cover for: Crap, we got all these people dressed up and here and now we've realized that the whole ceremony is less than five minutes. S-t-r-e-e-e-e-t-c-h!! In it, he actually uttered the phrase, "Don't let sarcasm become part of your daily routine." To which my friends in the back of the church immediately uttered a great, simultaneous, stifled "GUFFAW." Talking to the Bishop later at the reception, I think I might have answered, "Sarcasm? Were you serious? Our whole relationship is BASED on sarcasm!"
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April 17, 2008 at 7:35 AM
The only kind of humor I know is sarcastic humor. And the people I admire most are the ones who can hold their own in the face of torrents of sarcasm. When I want satire, I read Shakespeare.
That said... My favorite companion from my mission, worn out from my sarcastic rejoinders, once shot back at me in a fit of pique, "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, satire is the highest."
Whatever.
April 17, 2008 at 8:20 AM
I hope you told her, "Gee I never thought of it like that. Thank you. Thank you for enlightening me."
Or perhaps that's laying it on a bit too thick?
April 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM
I remember that moment in time. And the guffaw came from ... oh let's see...your mother, Jolene, Venice, your brother, dead relatives listening in, your bosses, your proud grandmother who'd died also, your friends none of the above knew.....shall I go on? Sarcasm has meaning different ways. I like the fun way. The bad way..blah..phoo...bad bad. No, I don't like that.
April 17, 2008 at 12:30 PM
I think I just looked at her, laughed, and said, "Oooooo-kay."
I wonder if she even remembers saying that? The irony is, she has a healthy, well-developed sense of the sarcastic.
I especially love the use of sarcasm around people who take themselves way, way, WAY too seriously. It goes completely over their heads, which makes it all the more fun (or sad.) I'm not sure which.
April 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM
D.C. .. that is so true. Too serious people do not get it. It comes out offensive to them.