I think that's an intelligent and elegantly designed joke.
The evocation of our founding fathers is somehow stirring; foolishly, of course, because one knows it's in service of an upcoming punch line; but this elegant setup makes it a perfect lead-in to the incongruous (the incongruity supplies most of the humor) punchline.
If one has a principled (or ideological) objection to all jokes that make sport of any religious tenet, or if one reacts negatively to jokes animated by patriotic emotion, of course one might not be in a mood to appreciate the humor.
IOW, it's an un-PC joke, and some people can't laugh at those.
Personally, I think the 72 virgin tenet is ridiculous and I reserve the right to ridicule it at will. Incidentally, some Islamic scholars believe it was a translation error that converted 'white grapes' to 'virgins.' If this were ever established to a certainty, would it then be okay (to the PC) to think that that had been a funny mistake, and that your joke was a funny one, I wonder.
My reservation is that a good joke shouldn't start with a "daisy cutter bomb." Otherwise, it's a good joke, and that bloody reference is a defect that added nothing, impo. |
