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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: offensive jokes
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 09:21:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 09:21:39 1983
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Here is the Laura Creighton rule for offensive jokes:

There is no such thing as an offensive joke. There merely are people that
you do not tell certain jokes to.

This seems to make sense. I must say that I find nothing funny about jokes
about lepers, Helen Keller, or gays. However, there is a class of joke where
you make fun of a certain person who is *soo...oo... stupid* (or naive)
which I do find funny. And I like dead baby jokes.

So I think if you were making a list of jokes to tell me you would probably 
exclude a lot of what goes on in this news group. 

The problem is that when you decide to tell a joke like the BLKTRAN one,
the audience that is going to find that joke funny is likely to be very
small. (it also may not be the audience you expect -- I know some Polish
people who **LOVE** Polack jokes, <but only when told by other Poles and
friends>)

I think that it is not worth the effort of submitting a joke that is likely
to be veiwed as offensive by most people and likely to be veiwed as amusing
by few. Regardless of who should or should not have used their 'n' key.

All of this is, of course, my own opinion.

laura creighton
utcsstat!laura