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In his conversation with Pat McKenna - Harold from the Red Green show - CVRB's Michael Coren and guest arrived at the conclusion that 'humour needs a victim'. Apparently feeling himself in humourous high spirits last night, Coren plumbed the depths of schadenfreude. After keeping caller Sunny waiting for about 18 mins, on hold, Coren let him on the air long enough to say 'hello', and then hung up. Coren doesn't like Sunny very much.

Coren then proceeding to take a few jabs at the Germans, and particularly their sense of humour, or lack there of. After he got finished with them, he then proceeded to to regale his listeners with a little story that might be called the lighter side of attempted murder. With giggling glee he describes how a man attempting to murder his girlfriend, by leaving her in a car parked on railway tracks, was himself killed when the train knocked the car off the tracks, and directly onto him. The girlfriend survived. In fairness to Mr. Coren, the story does have an element of 'poetic justice' to it.

The highlight of Mr. Coren's evening, though, was sharing the story of a Chinese man, who was send to the hospital after suffering a freak accident. The circumstances of the poor man's misfortune seemed to fill Coren with school boyish glee, as he giggled and cackled during the telling of the tale. At this point I switched the radio off.

Schadenfreude is a German word usually translated as "shameful joy", or taking pleasure int he misfortunes of others. While we're at the wordplay, anagrammatically, Michael Coren is a "mean choleric". Whether or not they are the most humourous race on God's green Earth, "those German's have a word for everything".

Now for our Wondertrash thought of the day:

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

PS. If Mr. Coren ever reads this, I can only hope that he doesn't retaliated by critiquing my spelling and grammar.

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