Censorship and the incredible shrinking tightwad

[SRoweCanoe@aol.com]

<<Stepping into a puddle of this
 stuff is not at all comparable to having a clean, wholesome pie thrown
 at your face, where you can lick off the cream and laugh the matter off.>>

I take it that you've never had someone threw a pie in your face... it may be clean, but it's not wholesome and I've never seen anyone (but actors) laugh it off.

Most slapstick humor, if you stop and think about it, is distrubing stuff.  Slipping on a banna peel can cause serious hip and leg injury.  Drinking milk straight from the cow, can cause cramping or worse.  Falling off a bridege could help you drown, unless the fall kills you first.

I feel sure that the majority of folks reading Don's story are kids, who are saying "ooohhhh, they are in a bunch of prune juice, gross; and smilingly turn the page".    
  Humor  often walks a fine tightrope with taste.  You and the USA disney censor thought it went over; Don, his editors, the editors who printed it their magazines thought it was well within suitable taste.


Steven Rowe ( earlier today was reading articles about the tastless crass comedians of the 1910s-1920s: Max Linder, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, etc.)