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From: fohl@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Fohl)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Rock Hudson Jokes
Message-ID: <1536@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 12:19:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 12:19:32 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Oct-85 05:42:25 EDT
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Keywords: Philosophy

I don't feel a bit sorry for Rock Hudson now that he's gone.  Any public
figure that gets him or herself in trouble is fair game for any jokes.  I
didn't wish the man dead, but he has only himself to blame.  It's not
likely that he was an innocent victim of a blood transfusion.

Consider previous rashes of jokes: Dick Nixon, Teddy Kennedy, Richard Pryor,
Billy Jean King; each one of them went a little off the beaten track and
became the target of public humor.  Jokes about them are in far better taste
than Baby Fay jokes, James Brady jokes, or Ethiopian jokes.  Those poor
folks had no choice in their predicaments.