I can understand that. Norm was a guy that went heavy into sarcasm and irony in his jokes.
Reading the text as is would make you understand it differently if you didn’t know him.
You’re right, I don’t know him, but I still think you’re making up a deeper level of humor that wasn’t intended.
“Luckily the good guys have won every single time” is a very direct jab at historians always casting themselves as the good guys.
You’re all up in here like “wull ackshually this is a post modern commentary on feminism because he’s used the gendered phrase ‘guys’ and you just wouldn’t get it because reasons”.
I already told you it’s ok if that’s what you think. I don’t see it as “deep humor”, for me it’s pretty obvious.
The last part of your comment is a straw man fallacy. Also, I don’t think I’m the kind of person that bends over backwards into cognitive dissonance just to defend a joke, chill.
“I think the best place to focus our War on Terror is in this nation’s haunted houses.”
“When I was a kid, I used to think revenge was a dish best served cold. Then I learned it means getting back at somebody.”
“The more I learn about this Hitler guy the less I care for him”
“Now, I don’t want to get into politics, but this Adolf Hitler fellow sounds like a real bad egg. Seems to me that the fellow’s biggest problem was a lack of respect for his fellow man.”
I can understand that. Norm was a guy that went heavy into sarcasm and irony in his jokes.
Reading the text as is would make you understand it differently if you didn’t know him.
You’re right, I don’t know him, but I still think you’re making up a deeper level of humor that wasn’t intended.
“Luckily the good guys have won every single time” is a very direct jab at historians always casting themselves as the good guys.
You’re all up in here like “wull ackshually this is a post modern commentary on feminism because he’s used the gendered phrase ‘guys’ and you just wouldn’t get it because reasons”.
I already told you it’s ok if that’s what you think. I don’t see it as “deep humor”, for me it’s pretty obvious.
The last part of your comment is a straw man fallacy. Also, I don’t think I’m the kind of person that bends over backwards into cognitive dissonance just to defend a joke, chill.
“I think the best place to focus our War on Terror is in this nation’s haunted houses.”
“When I was a kid, I used to think revenge was a dish best served cold. Then I learned it means getting back at somebody.”
“The more I learn about this Hitler guy the less I care for him”
“Now, I don’t want to get into politics, but this Adolf Hitler fellow sounds like a real bad egg. Seems to me that the fellow’s biggest problem was a lack of respect for his fellow man.”