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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Re: :-ROT-13 and offensive "humor")
Message-ID: <816@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 03:18:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  7 03:18:50 1985
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> > I object to being offended by some of what goes on in net.jokes. I think
> > the people that insert jokes about blind people, gays, people dying with
> > AIDS, cancer victims, Leon Klinghoffer, Ethiopians, poor (?) Jewish girls,
> > dead small children, past and present political officials, ethnic people,
> > Texas A&M students, Irish (well, maybe), and others should be shot and
> > hung out to dry for making sensitive people like myself go through hitting
> > the control-x key before we can be offended! I think that the trouble you
> > bastards put us through before we can see what your sick minds contain
> > should come back to you ten-fold. I am sick and tired of having to decode
> > your little secret jokes which you obviously try to keep people like me from
> > seeing. Remember, our SAVIOUR, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, who loves us all as
> > brothers and sisters doesn't have to use control-x to un-rot13 your filth,
> > why should we?
> 
> You _M_U_S_T belong to the moral majority, for they are the
> only people who try the be offended, then complain.  The WHOLE IDEA
> behind the use of the rotaion is to NOT OFFEND people.  If you see
> a subject line that says "Offensive to gays (ROT13)" or if you see a
> posting that looks like "Lbhe pbpx znxrf zl chffl vgpu!", then hit
> the 'n' key so you don't have to read it.  By the way, why are you using
> control-x to decode it?  "D" works much better.  Anyway, no one is
> trying to _h_i_d_e our "secret jokes" from the likes of you God loving
> people.  Remember, no one is forcing you to read net.jokes.
> 
> -- 
> -- Kevin Chu

Get with the program - if the sarcastic tone wasn't obvious enough in the body
of the posting, the extended smiley face in the title should have been a
giveaway.  What are you, a humor defective or something?

			-Steve Shiue

"He who becomes a beast relieves himself of the pain of being a man."
	-Dr. Johnson
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