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Sarcasm isnt necessarily humor. Sarcasm is commentary on someone else's remarks by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/02/2013, 8:25am PDT Sarcasm is used to comment on someone's remarks. While it can often be very humorous, it doesn't have to be. And sometimes it isn't. The movie Airport has a number of sarcastic jibes at someone else's statement: There's this one where Joe Patroni wants to get a plane that's stuck in the mud next to the runway back on the runway, and he's arguing with the pilot from Flight 45 who messed up and drove it off in the first place, who refused to use full power on the engines to push it back: Joe Patroni: You chickened out on me! I told you I wanted all the power you got! Capt. Benson: Full throttle and this plane would be standing on its nose. Joe Patroni: You might fly these things but I take them apart and put them back together again. If you had any guts we'd be on the runway by now. Capt. Benson: You felt it vibrating? Another 10 seconds and we'd have had structural damage. Joe Patroni [infuriated]: Who do ya think you're talking to, some kid that fixes bicycles? I know every inch of the 707! Take the wings off this and you could use it as a TANK! This plane is built to withstand anything... [points thumb at Benson] except a bad pilot. Capt. Benson [to Bakersfeld, standing next to Patroni]: You might tell your mechanic that I've got three million miles in the air. Joe Patroni: And two and a half feet into the ground. There's also an error in this dialog. And another one that points out the stupidness of the question. Demeresti: When I'm flying over 200,000 pounds of 707 I want a runway that's mighty long, and mighty dry. Bakersfeld: It'll be dry all right, but not very long. Demeresti: What's that supposed to mean? Bakersfeld: Runway 29 is closed. A jockey from your flight 45 tried to take a shortcut across the field. And he didn't make it. Demeresti: What are you doing about it? Bakersfeld: Well, when the snow melts in April, we'll get it out. I don't think either of these are for comedic relief, they're there to point out the ridiculousness of the other person's statements.

Choose my next Let's Not Play! by Worm 05/31/2013, 2:07pm PDT     SurveyMonkey is a piece of shit that crashed on me three times in a row, so here by fucking newbie 05/31/2013, 4:50pm PDT         Yes. I don't want anything to be more than five minutes any more. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/31/2013, 10:21pm PDT             Five Minutes? You mean you have an attention span that long? Amazing stamina! NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/01/2013, 7:18am PDT                 That was sarcasm, which appears to be an attempt at humor. NT by What did we agree about that? 06/01/2013, 11:42am PDT                     Sarcasm isnt necessarily humor. Sarcasm is commentary on someone else's remarks by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/02/2013, 8:25am PDT