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From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP (Marla S Baer)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Bumper Stickers
Message-ID: <589@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 18:40:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 31 18:40:45 1983
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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After seeing various forms of a slogan I helped come up with appear
a number of times in net.jokes I thought some people might be
interested in how it came into being.  A few years age, a number of
us were sitting around a party at a sf convention at approximately
4:00am.  Somehow the conversation got onto the subject of slogans
and buttons in general when one of the people said that they had
seen a button they thought was very funny in that it was so
insulting it should offend a lot of people.  The slogan was:

          NUKE THE WHALES.

After thinking about it for a while, we decided that although it was
fairly offensive, it wouldn't offend everyone.  So we decided to
come up with a slogan guaranteed to offend everybody.  NUKE THE
WHALES became:

  NUKE THE UNBORN WHALES
  NUKE THE UNBORN GAY WHALES
and finally:

  NUKE THE UNBORN GAY WHALES FOR JESUS

I t admit it's fun to see just how far that spot of midnight (well
4am) madness has gone.

                               Marla S. Baer
                               Seattle, WA

P.S. I'm really sorry, I have totally forgotten just which
convention this happened at and exactly who was there at the time.
My apologies to everyone involved.  I would love to hear from anyone
who was there.