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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Halley's Comet Limerick Contest
Message-ID: <118@midas.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 16:29:57 EST
Article-I.D.: midas.118
Posted: Sat Feb  1 16:29:57 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Feb-86 05:00:24 EST
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Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <541@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly) writes:
>In response to:
>
>>>>THE AMERICAN FILTHY LIMERICKS ASSOCIATION (a wholly owned branch of the
>>>>American Scatalogical Society) announced the 1986 Halley`s Comet Filthy
>>>>Limerick contest.  ... The limerick must make reference to some bodily
>>>>function or sexual act.
>>>>     
>>>    	What's this bigoted trash doing on net.astro? I believe the 
>>>        poster of this garbage owes us all an apology for this 
>>>        flagrant waste of network resources. I find the note offensive 
>>>        and insulting.
>>
>>	I wholeheartedly agree with your complaint !   I think this
>>	offensive trash should stay in net.jokes which is the appropriate
>>	forum for people who take pleasure in such expressions of
>>	stupidity !
>
>NO NO NO !!!
>
>The net.jokes newsgroup is intended for HUMOR, though the contributions to that
>group frequently seem to amuse only the authors.  It is not intended for this
>kind of garbage.
>
>Send all of your contributions to this "contest" to /dev/null and save the
>entire net a lot of pain.

First, dirty limericks have nothing to do with bigotry. Second, I extracted
this from net.jokes, but do you see any jokes therein? (Shame on you, Mr.
Strebendt, for your soreheaded breach of netiquette.) Except perhaps
the unintentional humor of calling dirty limericks "trash".

And finally, this whole idea sounds a lot funnier than most of the stuff
on net.jokes. Come on people, get to work! (And send one copy of each
creation to Mr. Strebendt.)

"If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, shoot yourself."

						Jeff Winslow