:You're putting words in my mouth. Don't you think you probably would have hurt Hickenlooper's feelings by making that wisecrack? Yet when you did it a second time I couldn't bring myself to defend him. That's not "making humor" over things I might do, on the contrary: sometimes you just can't carry things through to the bitter end. I rather made humor over the "notion" that I couldn't defend Hickenlooper from a funny nickname because its pull to his reputation was too strong, reflecting the fate of the Democrat slate of candidacies this year. I think that thinking a funny nickname is somehow indispensible is a funny thing. But only for a public figure, of course. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) Wednesday, 03:50, 10 June 2020 (EDT) | :You're putting words in my mouth. Don't you think you probably would have hurt Hickenlooper's feelings by making that wisecrack? Yet when you did it a second time I couldn't bring myself to defend him. That's not "making humor" over things I might do, on the contrary: sometimes you just can't carry things through to the bitter end. I rather made humor over the "notion" that I couldn't defend Hickenlooper from a funny nickname because its pull to his reputation was too strong, reflecting the fate of the Democrat slate of candidacies this year. I think that thinking a funny nickname is somehow indispensible is a funny thing. But only for a public figure, of course. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) Wednesday, 03:50, 10 June 2020 (EDT) |