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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Joe Bob at the Drive in comes to S.F.
Message-ID: <800@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Apr-84 12:11:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  2 12:11:47 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Apr-84 01:12:01 EST
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Joe Bob at the Drive-in was recently picked up by the San Francisco
Chronicle as a weekly column for their Sunday paper. Since he seems to be
popular on the net, I thought I would share with you the recent letters
sent to the entertainment editor published this weekend:

    --
    It's not so much that he has an axe to grind (so to speak) against
    women -- that isn't admirable, but it's certainly not unusual. So
    what's my complaint??? HE'S NOT FUNNY! He's  not entertaining, He's not
    interesting. His 'style' is as compelling as an overloaded trash
    compactor. 

    --
    I still find it hard to Believe that The Chronicle would publish an
    article which joyously advocates such disgusting violence, as well as
    the debasement of women as 'bimbos'. Ok, maybe it is a sick world, but
    we don't need to read about people who recel in seeing '... bimbos in
    cages getting hosed down...', a midget making love to a severed head,
    so someone chain sawing their girlfriend.

    --
    I rarely write letters of comment, but the comments printed in the
    article left me outraged. You might question Mr. Briggs what his mother
    thinks of his viewpoints -- does he have enormous respect for her
    simply because she has 'garbonzas the size of Cleveland?'

    --
    The Joe Bob Briggs column may pass for funny in a throwback town like
    Dallas, but...

    --
    We encourage you to re-establish your former standards of taste and
    sensitivity...

    --
    Congratulations on the latest addition to the Pink Section, if you know
    who I'm talking about and I think you do... Keep up the good work.


[These were, by the way, heavily edited to so that I didn't get arrested
for using obscene language. The letter page ran 10-1 against Joe Bob, and
to say that the outrage was mild would be to call Hiroshima a head cold.
Something tells me that Joe Bob probably won't stay in the bay area
long....]




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