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From: ccs025@ucdavis.UUCP (Johan)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Offensive humor
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 20:35:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 20:35:07 1986
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> Dear net.people:
> 
> 
> 	The question: Are ALL jokes offensive in SOME way to SOMEone?
> Can anyone supply a joke that is completely inoffensive to anybody
> (yet still funny to someone)? 

  Ok, this is going to sound real mealy-mouthed, but I tend to
believe it.  Someone else's misery is always going to be humorous
to someone else in someway.  As awful as the Vietnam war was,  I
know that a lot of Russians probably thought it was hilarious to
see us in such a mess.  I guess you just have to tune out the
jokes that are in your "Sensitive Zone".  Just remember that at
some point everyone has told a joke that probably would have
offended someone.
  As for jokes that don't offend anyone?  I wish i could give some
examples over the net of some great BILL COSBY stuff.  But even
in person I couldn't do him justice.  I have just about every
album he ever did, and have seen him live twice.  In all that
I only heard him swear once, and it was because he kicked over his
glass of water while sitting and talking.  If you are not familiar
with BC humor, go out and buy any album.  He can make the
most common thing (eating ice cream) funny.  Can anyone
quote anything BC has ever said as being offensive?
   Happy laughing................


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