Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!oddjob!apak From: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women Subject: traditional values Message-ID: <1124@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 22:07:08 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1124 Posted: Mon Jan 20 22:07:08 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jan-86 04:21:36 EST References: <263@galbp.UUCP> <418@cisden.UUCP> Reply-To: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) Distribution: net Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 30 Keywords: death, doom, destruction, despair, despond, dereliction. Xref: watmath net.jokes.d:1322 net.women:8413 In article <418@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes: >This girl goes into a bank, fills out a deposit form, goes up to the >teller, says she wants to deposit a fifty-dollar bill. The teller >takes the bill, looks at it, holds it up to the light, finally says, >"I'm sorry, ma'am, but I can't accept this bill. It's counterfeit." >"Oh my God!" says the girl, "I've been raped!" >-- > Peace and Good!, > Fr. John Woolley To set this lovely piece of sexist propaganda in context, look at an earlier article: In article <358@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes: > In article <862@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: >>You can get away with this sort of disingenuous appeal to traditional values >>in a conversation, but one of the advantages of the net is that we can sit >>back and analyze your fallacies at our own pace, rather than in real time. > Nicely put. But I don't think "disingenuous" is correct. I was being very > open about my traditional values, not trying to be false or cunning or > deceptive at all. I think your candor regarding your traditional values is now beyond dispute. Just two questions: (1) Do you understand that many of your readers are women, or like women, or both, and for that reason regard those values with contempt? (2) What was the first article doing in net.jokes? ak "Salome, dear, NOT in the fridge."