Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site well.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!well!rab From: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: YAWJ Message-ID: <597@well.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 18:38:53 EST Article-I.D.: well.597 Posted: Mon Feb 3 18:38:53 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 02:35:21 EST References: <361@cisden.UUCP> <11686@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 54 Keywords: yet another Woolley joke Summary: Is this about gays? In article <11686@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) writes: > In article <361@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes: > >Scene: a men's room. There's a guy in one of the stalls. Another guy > >comes in, occupies himself. > > > >Guy in the stall: Hey, buddy? Is there any toilet paper out there? > >Other guy: Nope, don't see any. > > > > > >Guy in the stall: Uh, buddy? Any paper towels or anything out there? > >Other guy: Nope, there's nothing. > >Guy in the stall: Well, are there any newspapers? Anything? > >Other guy: Nope, sorry. > > > > > >Guy in the stall: Say, buddy? > >Other guy: Yeah? > >Guy in the stall: You got change for a ten? > > > > I cannot *believe* this homophobic "joke". What are we supposed to > make of this gay bathroom prostitution? I certainly fail to see any > humor, and find this propagating of hateful stereotypes extremely > offensive. > > Please, if Catholics must go on bashing gays, do so in the privacy > of your own churches, not on the net! > > Just two questions: > (1) Do you understand that many of your readers are gay, or like gays, or > both, and for that reason regard those values with contempt? > (2) What was the "joke" doing in net.jokes? > (3) When do we get the difference-between-a-Jew-and-a-pizza "joke"? > Is this guy for real? Maybe I'm dense (or is it just that I'm not gay?), but I would never have suspected that the joke had anything to do with gays.... seems to me it's about desperation. Oh, a joke? "How do you keep a moron in suspense?" Robert Bickford (rab@well.uucp) ================================================ | I doubt if these are even my own opinions. | ================================================