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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
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Subject: Re: Telephone Company "Inside Humor"
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Date: 21 Sep 90 07:59:31 GMT
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In article <12322@accuvax.nwu.edu> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G.
Woodbury) writes:

>In <12247@accuvax.nwu.edu> kitty!larry@uunet.uu.net (Larry Lippman)
>writes:

>>Like crossing the numbers of a small meat packing-freezer plant
>>with the major undertaking establishment in the city.

>>[Moderator's Note: Isn't that marvelous! So there has been a death in
>>someone's family; it is a time of grief; they call to make funeral
>>arrangements and wind up getting the meat processing plant. You must
>>have really split your pants open with laughter at that one.    PAT]  

>Oh get off it Pat.  Your holier than thou attitude in relation to the
>telco antics issue is getting old.  Just because you didn't think of
>it or get a chance to do it is no reason to be a puritan and deny
>others their own enjoyment of a situation.  I am willing to bet that
>you are not spotlessly clean in terms of abusive humor.

Oh get off it Greg. Ethically Pat is absolutely correct. This *is*
abuse of trust. And yes, my thesaurus shows "ethically" as synonymous
with "carping". Shows our attitude towards ethical behaviour doesn't
my thesaurus?

"Everybody does it" is *not* an excuse for doing something wrong.

If your children want to smoke pot because "All my friends do and I'll
look like a (something) if I don't" would you accept that?  I hope
not.

It's a major problem in our society.

Everybody:
	lies on their tax return
	drives 45 in a 35 zone
	makes personal calls on their company phone

It doesn't make it right.

Practical jokes are fun. Yes. Everyone laughs. Yes. Therefore anyone
who has ever laughed at a "Practical Joke" is guilty of enjoying
abusive humor.

That doesn't make it right. And the example given was in extreme poor
taste, and an extreme case of abusive humor. And it *is* a good
example of abuse of trust.

Pat is correct to find it bad.

My $0.02 worth.

Goodnight, sweet dreams.


Jim Budler          jimb@silvlis.com       +1.408.991.6115
Silvar-Lisco, Inc. 703 E. Evelyn Ave. Sunnyvale, Ca. 94086