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From: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Funniest movies
Message-ID: <16915@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 19:18:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 19:18:20 1985
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After posting a suggestion to net.movies enquiring about people's funniest
movies, I received the following mail message, which I thought I should post.
I will elaborate on this message in my next article:

> ...
>
> Subject: Re: A suggestion
> Newsgroups: net.movies
> In-Reply-To: <16870@watmath.UUCP>
> Organization: RCA Cylix Communications Network, Inc.
> Status: R
> 
> In article <16870@watmath.UUCP> you write:
> >After reading the totally bad movies list, I thought that someone should
> >start a funniest movies list.
> 
> You might not get a consensus on this, because tastes vary so much.
> To make my point, I'll nominate some movies that I thought were the
> funniest I have ever seen. But if you post them, you'll probably get
> lots of mail questioning my taste.
> 
> My nominees:
> 
> "Airplane" was the funniest movie I have ever seen. It is probably
> 	because it is the closest thing to my bizarre sense of humour.
> 	My sister-in-law can sit through airplane and not crack a smile;
> 	she is instead quite perplexed at how anyone could find anything
> 	in that movie funny.
> 
> "National Lampoon's Vacation" (Not European; the original) was the second
> 	funniest movie I have seen. I saw the cleaned-up version on TV.
> 	The funniest scene in the movie is where the cop stops Chevy
> 	Chase for dragging his dog with the car. My wife found this
> 	horrifying, but I laughed until I cried. She had not seen the
> 	movie; I was trying to describe it to her, and you just had to
> 	see the movie and see how obnoxious that little mutt was before
> 	you could really get the humour. Even then, you have to have a
> 	cruel streak, like me, in order to really appreciate it.
> 
> "Airplane II" was the third funniest movie I have seen. This is probably
> 	the nomination you will get the most disagreement about. Most
> 	"Airplane" fans found the sequel inferior, and I agree, but I
> 	found it funny as well.
> 
> Other nominations from RCA Cylix, taken from other workers here, show
> how diverse comedy tastes are:
> 
> "Friday the 13th," and all sequels.
> "Jaws"
> "Halloween," and all sequels.
> "Murder by Death"
> "Young Frankenstein"
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Kirby    ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)
> 
> (The views expressed herein are the exclusive property of Dave Kirby.
> Any person, living or dead, found with the same or similar opinions
> will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of law.)
>