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From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Rock Hudson Jokes
Message-ID: <803@x.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 20:34:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: x.803
Posted: Mon Oct 14 20:34:07 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 07:36:52 EDT
References: <1536@cbosgd.UUCP>
Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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Keywords: That's a joke, Gene!
Summary: let's start net.homophobe

<aids jokers>  C'mon line eater!

Note:  This is from STella Calvert, a guest on this account.

In article <1536@cbosgd.UUCP> fohl@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Fohl) writes:
>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.

No, he was the innocent victim of a disease that happened to show up in one
group of our society.  

I'm sick of these alleged jokes, and would like to suggest the creation of a
new newgroup, net.homophobe.  Then net.idiots who get some pleasure from
talking about AIDS and the terrible people who have it would be able to jerk
off peacefully without getting flamed by people who read .jokes expecting
humor, rather than prejudice.

>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.

Can you, O poster of stupidity, cite one case of a person who knowingly
chose to contract AIDS? 

				STella Calvert
				(guest on ...!decvax!frog!wjr)

		Every man and every woman is a star.

P.S.  net.homophobe is a joke, Gene, not a call for a new group!