Well, there's a difference (at least to me) between being "small-minded" and having a sense of humor about things. Seems to me like folks are getting awfully thin-skinned these days.
Probably just me, but after 22 years in the Navy and another 15 as a firefighter, there ain't much that gets under my skin. In those communities, if you got all puffed up and offended about something, it just made you a target. Best reaction was to either ignore it or hand it right back to 'em.
But then, that was before this became a kinder, gentler world...