that is so true rockfish...
and it puzzles me, but i do seem to be able to emphatize with people from different backgrounds which make me able to understand and appreciate the humor of jokes from all over the world even if i don't previously know what they were talking about... wikipedia comes in handy in these cases...
anyhoo, i don't think i've watched half as much anime or read half as much manga than most other people in this thread (i'm a geek, but i spend way much more time playing games than watching anime or reading manga etc... i don't even really own any manga be it hardcopy or softcopy and i mostly look at the daily comic strips...), yet i can still appreciate lucky star, that's why i believe others can enjoy it too...
i think Virginia Woolf once said something like:
"Humour is the first gift to perish in a foreign language"
perhaps if we can all try to put ourselves in other people's shoes, we can broaden our horizon about other things too...
