Some sense is made out of the jokes...

a quote from a good friend...."Pat Jokes: John can't help that he has money. So that makes the John is rich jokes invalid. Sure, make fun of how John uses his money, but just the fact that he is rich is bunk. There are people far richer than him at Manual. However, this is where we hit the validity of the Pat is stupid jokes. John is rich because of his dad. Pat is stupid because he's lazy, and he openly admits to being lazy. He is lazy in his school work. He gets in trouble over his grades. Pat just doesn't care. Pat isn't as educated as John or Evan, so political satire in conversations is out of the question. Pat focuses his energy on Tae Kwon Doe and saxophone, his two main passions. Pat is very stupid academically, and I'm sure he agrees with me. But where John is my white collar friends and Evan is my centrist friend, Pat balances it all out with being the blue collar friend, the working guy. The DQ guy. All this doesn't change the fact that Pat isn't super fact on the uptake or gets all of my historical jokes. Oh and Pat, President Bush doesn't have a reconstruction plan for the South, the South was reconstructed after the Civil War ended in 1864. Lincoln started reconstrution. The south has been part of the Union for 140 years now. Being academically challenged doesn't make Pat any lesser of a person or friend, though.The basis of the Pat jokes are Pat's intelligence; Pat is stupid when it comes to general knowledge. But Pat jokes do not indicate Pat's worth in our lives. He's not the guy we all joke on to us. Pat jokes just happen, it's not like anyone is in the mindset to say "oh, hey, lets fuck Pat over!" Yet when he is your only blue collar friend, the white collar friends will pick on his blue collarness, which in his case is his intellect. We all know Pat is not a philosopher or historian or a mathematician. Pat jokes reflect stupidity, and I think down inside, we all see Pat's stupidity as part of ourselves. We're all stupid and I think most of us have the same amount of intelligence, just in different areas; I believe in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Pat has very, very high musical intelligence, but poor logical and spatial intelligence. I have high existential intelligence and emotional intelligence, but quite poor spatial intelligence (aka I suck at math. Really bad).What people don't understand is that we all joke on each other. Evan and I joke on each other's views of Ford/Chevy. I joke with John about his money and Miki. John jokes on me about my Corvette. Pat jokes on me about....well I don't remember but it's funny most of the time. Contrary to popular belief, Pat does have funny jokes. But he is more logical in his joke formations and therefore takes longer. I assure you, Pat has funny jokes, but they're usually prescripted. Pat is also scared to say his jokes because they're cruel, but that's stupid. We're all cruel to each other in a way, but we're all friends. We all know they're just jokes. Pat jokes get publicized so much because #1. they're really funny #2. Pat overreacts to them #3. Pat can't say anything back. My theory is that if Pat takes Pat jokes in stride, they will die down to the level all the other jokes are held at. Also, if Pat threw some really, really fucking funny jokes (no matter how mean), that would boost his image."Yes Geoff Tankersley, you are a good man. And, in this case, you are absolutely right. I wish I could see all this from your perspective; that would help out a lot. And that's all I have to say to that.The Patriots won YEAH DUDE! that was an awesome game....and I was at DQ working when I watched it, because my manager took down our old shitty tv so we could watch it. Yeah that place really takes care of me.Well kids, this does it for me tonight...I'm outta here. Peace