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You won’t be in San Miguel for more than day before you have your first snicker. One minute you are looking at a church and then, walking before your eyes, will be some expat dressed like a cartoon character, or an artist or a pirate and from a place deep within you where snickers start you experience your first San Miguel Snicker(SMS). Your hand rushes to your mouth to conceal the snicker but you know you snickered and actually anyone who saw the same thing, will know you snickered. And if you both snickered you will experience what is called Double San Miguel Snicker and will have developed a bond with someone that it is indeed magical.
Now the snicker is a tricky thing. A snicker to one person is a cry for help to another. Here are four potential San Miguel Snickers. This is a test of your Snicker Sensibility.
Snicker Test
Which picture or pictures made you snicker and which picture or pictures made you squirm.
Snicker 1 Cowboy hat and shorts that are a bit tight
Snicker 2 Ski poles in the Jardin
Snicker 3 Pole dancer resting – hat and skirt match
Snicker 4 Gay man and dog
The most problematic are Snicker 2 and 4. If you see a handicapped woman in Snicker 2 then you squirmed and would be offended by a snicker. If you see homophobia in Snicker 4 then you would be offended by a snicker.
If you have no sense of humor you are offended by any snicker, ever, at anytime, anywhere, by anyone except by a dog..
Now the following picture is really problematic. Is this a San Miguel Snicker? Or is it simply being cruel. In other words is it a San Miguel Squirm The lesson is, that snickers often lead to moral conflicts. One man’s snicker is another man’s issue. At what point is a picture a taunt?
The Dilemma
San Miguel is a moral landmine for those given to snickers. Every snicker will offend someone.
Snicker or Squirm 1
This is the San Miguel equivalent to driving a Corvette. For some women a man with a big camera is sexy.
Snicker of Squirm 2
Snicker or Squirm 3
Snicker or Squirm 4
Snicker or Squirm 5
So send me your snicker shots.
You’ve been caught…Snicker #3 is the same Pink Lady from the
Gang of One. You’re recycling! But then, that will make the car wash
evil poster happy.
As for cleaning your sidewalks with spit, remember what George Carlin
said about saliva…”They’ve just discovered that saliva causes cancer, but
only when swallowed in small quantities over a long period of time.”
The solution (I know you know it…) is simply NOT to swallow.
But I digress…
Hey, we miss you! See you again soon.
Tina, Ron, and Rusty the WonderDog
Great post. And a great example of the difference between humor and wit.
One of my favorite writers, John Simon, pointed out in Paradigms Lost that humor and wit are nearly the exact opposites of one another. Humor is “basically good natured and often directed toward oneself.” On the other hand, wit is “aggressive, often destructive (though one hopes, in a good cause), and almost always directed at others.” Simon, of course, is a master of wit.
As is someone else I know.
Hope you can run fast enough to the car park before you get tomatoed!
Suzanne – as always a great comment.
The concept of a morality play is so rich I can’t quite wrap my head around it. My favourite childhoold story was the Emperor Wears No Clothes. It is amazing what we as adults can do to truth. Behind satire there is a truth
I don’t have a car but I do have a Toyota Camry easily accessible.
Moral landmine, or morality play?
Maybe it’s all a big morality play here.
If you haven’t read Barry Unger’s book Morality Play, it might help us snickerers to find a way out of this conundrum……An acting troupe comes into a town, discovers something is going on that can’t be uncovered in the usual ways, so over the course of a few days, the cast of the acting troupe runs around town looking into all the ways people are holding the story in, keeping secrets, wearing weird things so they can’t be found out, then there is a public theatrical play (why not in the bull ring?) that addresses the problem as a theatre production that the entire town is invited to.
The play acts out all the characters in the town, the culprits are found, the actors may end up being run out of town, of course, as they are really seekers of truth, and don’t mind saying so…. but usually there’s peace in the end, and the mystery is solved.
As far as the problematic snickerers – there’s a saying that goes something like this – “if you plan to tell the truth, better have your horse ready at the door”
Just bring your horse to town so you can get out quick!
LOL whith the Squirm number 1
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