"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 21:33:56 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> On 2/4/2016 8:40 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> I have noticed an extreme lack of a sense of humor by some people
>>> here though. Including you Dave. Like when some years ago I posted
>>> about my buying what turned out to be a giant potato masher. I posted
>>> of it because I thought it was hysterically funny when I wrestled the
>>> thing out of the box. I had never seen such a large thing before and it
>>> truly did strike me as funny. I wasn't complaining about it and was
>>> poking fun at myself for having not realized the proportions when I
>>> bought it. But you didn't see the humor at all. You just had to be
>>> mean to me about it. It would suck to be you Dave. Thankfully I'm not
>>> you.
>>
>> Damn! I missed the post about the big giant potato masher.
>
> I missed that one, too. I wonder if it really happened and if a big
> deal was made out of it.

It happened. It was this.

https://www.lehmans.com/p-282-giant-potato-masher.aspx

I see now that it is referred to as "giant". I don't remember that in the
description when I bought it, which was probably around 10 years ago. I did
not check the size when I ordered it. I just liked the looks of the mashing
part. I was having a hard time at that point in time, finding one that had
a metal mashing part and one with no plastic handle. My OXO Good Grips had
failed me. The handle got mushy. And it seemed that all I could find in
the brick and mortar stores at that point in time either had the zig zagging
shape which I hate, or was made entirely of plastic, which I also hate. I'm
sure this would be good for a family like the Duggars but it was too big for
me. In fact, in order to wield the thing, I had to put my pan on the floor.
That's what I found comical. It is a good masher. Just not what a small
family would need.
>
> I think Julie is trying to use this one example, from what - 5 years
> ago - ads an example of her sense of humor and our lack of it. I
> think in all the time I've been here I've heard Julie use humor maybe
> 4 times. She *is* the class clown, but in the non-traditional way.

Pretty sure this goes back further than 5 years. And maybe it was one of
those things where you had to have been there to appreciate it. But bottom
line, nobody here seemed to see it as funny and they only saw me as being
stupid.