Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!looking!funny-request From: ingram@u.washington.edu (Douglas Ingram) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Congress does the right thing Keywords: true, smirk Message-ID: Date: 17 May 91 10:30:04 GMT Lines: 19 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca While visiting the library the other day, I stumbled across an old issue of "Harper's Weekly" from last year (Feb 1990?), and I saw this series of statistics in their monthly Harper's Index feature: Number of times the phrase "Do the right thing" has appeared in the Congressional Record since the release of Spike Lee's movie: 53 Number of times "Do the right thing" has been used in reference to the Congressional pay raise: 16 Number of times the phrase has been used in reference to racial issues: 1 -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes. You think I have time to hand-correct everybody's postings?