Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!hplabs!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: YAWJ Message-ID: <1381@ames.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 16:25:55 EST Article-I.D.: ames.1381 Posted: Tue Feb 4 16:25:55 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 09:36:50 EST References: <361@cisden.UUCP> <11686@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 46 From brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener: >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! You're kidding, right? Or am I just naive? I've not only read the joke, I think I "got" it, and I can't find any reference to gays at all, much less an insulting one. If you're serious, try asking someone to explain the jokes to you before you go public with your Emily Latella outrage. >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"? That's three questions :-). - From the Crow's Nest - Kenn Barry NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTRIC AVENUE: {ihnp4,vortex,dual,nsc,hao,hplabs}!ames!barry