Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Offensive jokes Message-ID: <1345@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Oct-83 09:41:13 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1345 Posted: Fri Oct 28 09:41:13 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Oct-83 11:50:41 EDT References: <128@sjuvax.UUCP>, <855@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 34 Ah, But Randy, here you break the system. You are going to label all your jokes offensive, right. Presumably you want the people who do not want to read offensive jokes to miss all of your jokes -- either out of spite, or caprice, or because you don't want the hassle of deciding whether your jokes are offensive or not. I sympathise with the problem, but I am not so sure that this is a useful solution. First of all, I may tell someone who does not want to read offensive jokes to read all the jokes that don't say (rot) and don't say (offensive) --plus all those jokes from Randy Haskin (mit-eddie!rh), because they are never offensive, and are the funniest jokes on the net. Tomorrow you may decide to tell the most offensive joke possible. Boom! That someone has read an offensive joke. What, you say, but it was their own fault, I SAID that it was offensive! Sure it is. But, if this was going to work, we wouldn't have this problem right now. (Have any of you read THE FLYING SORCERORS by David Gerrold and Larry Niven? I feel like Lant dealing with the Weaver. I'll just take three syllables of your secret name...) So if I were you, I would rotate them as well if they are going to be offensive. The other problem is that if everyone starts doing this, then the word "offensive" will become so common that it will be ignored by most people -- who won't know that it is there -- and then will post an offensive joke with no title, no rotating, NOTHING! This will get all the people who get upset about offensive jokes upset and they will probably take it out on the poor fellow who only posted the joke and didn't know any better... Laura Creighton utcsstat!laura