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From: mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Rock Hudson Jokes
Message-ID: <853@whuxlm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 19:34:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 19:34:31 1985
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> Pardon the title, and pardon the posting in net.jokes.
> There will not be any joke.
> Why should I do that, when (I hope) thousands of people on the net share
> my feelings, I do not know. I was waiting and expecting somebody to say it.
> For months now we have been subjected to "Rock Hudson Jokes", and "AIDS Jokes".
> None of them had any redeeming value, even assuming that they could have had.

 + 40 more lines of moaning about the cruelty of Rock Hudson jokes.


Look, I've been reading net.jokes for several years, and I've noticed a few
things.  First, anything goes here, whether you like it or not.  Second,
we've gotten this article every few months since the net began. Third, most
jokes likely to offend are identified as such in their Subject line.
Fourth, Rock Hudson probably heard them all before they were published in
net.jokes.  They didn't cause any further harm here.

Lighten up, or hit the n key.

Mike Gray

PS - A joke for those of you who put up with all this:

Did you know that scientists have recently stopped using laboratory
rats for subjects and are now using attorneys?

It's true, for two reasons.  There are more of them, and you don't
get so attached to them.