More on blogging and humour

If you were to read this, this, this and this (and remember you should be reading all the (100s of) comments on the first three as well), and then you were to tell me which providing the most pointed critique of the smoking ban in England, I would not be at all surprised to hear you say 'the fourth one'. I'm not saying the first three aren't funny. They have elements of fun - slapstick, hellraising for the sake of it, hyperbole - but it is the nicely pointed humour of Mr Kirk Elder, Senior Citizen from Peebles (who is not as much of blogging innocent as he makes himself out to be sometimes...) which wins hands down on really making you think about the issue from his point of view.