[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Crude joke at ESA/ Dan on Santa Claus - Reader's Digest

[Richelle Votaw]

Diana wrote:

>  I agree with you, Amy.  I didn't hear the joke told, but I did read about it 
> on the list.  That joke was very tasteless to tell at the expense of a
> thirteen-year-old boy *and* in front of room full of people!  My husband 
> wondered whether the erection-reference of the joke went over Daniel 
> Radcliffe's head, but I told him it's unlikely that he didn't get the rudeness 
> behind the joke.  

I don't know . . . I think he got it. Between turning absolutely red (which admittedly is rather common for a 13 year old) when the joke was made and that deliberate turn of the head in the direction of the announcer when he made his own (very innocent) broomstick joke I get the idea that he understood perfectly.

Amy wrote:

> I'm not *intimately* familiar with the style of Reader's Digest, 
> since I mostly read the jokes (though as a morbid little child I 
> loved the "I Can't Hold on Much Longer!" rescue stories), but this 
> sounds ghost-written to me--or at least heavily edited.  There is a 
> Reader's-Digest-y tone that makes me think DR might've jotted down 
> some memories and thoughts and then an editor shaped it into RD prose.

Hmm, I don't know. If they edited it, they sure didn't edit it for British English.  Yes, I'm stupid, but I wondered for a while why he would leave out "biscuits" for Santa.  (Okay, go ahead, a "How thick can you get?" quote is appropriate at this time.)


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