Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!boulder!cisden!gmack From: gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Kicking Dead Horses (traditional values) Message-ID: <470@cisden.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 10:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: cisden.470 Posted: Wed Jan 29 10:30:00 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Feb-86 03:26:52 EST References: <263@galbp.UUCP> <418@cisden.UUCP> <1124@oddjob.UUCP> <451@cisden.UUCP> <1207@lll-crg.ARpA> Reply-To: gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie) Distribution: net Organization: ConTel Information Systems, Denver Lines: 16 Keywords: I don't get it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (Don't feel bad; I never get any either.) In article <1207@lll-crg.ARpA> figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) writes: >>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!" > >Sexism or not, I just plain don't get this joke. Would somebody please >explain to me why this is supposed to be funny? I think it's supposed to be: This "working" girl goes into a bank... Without the word "working", it is not apparent that the girl is a prostitute.