"Black humor" !! OH, U2 are indeed encourageable and
incorrigible! Both tarred with the same brush, obviously.
If necessary, I'll get out my sack of feathers for the both of you.
Incidentally, she said, suddenly leap-frogging threads--
that reminds me of the old expression of someone being
tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. The movie O Brother Where Art Thou had the first incident I have ever seen of anyone actually being ridden out on a rail. (Though he wasn't tarred or feathered.)