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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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Subject: Re: Offensive humor
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 13:28:13 EST
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In article <132@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
>Try listening to George Carlin or Robin Williams some time.  Lots of  humor
>with  no  one  hurt.  ("Flammable,  inflammable, non-inflammable -- why are
>there three?  Seems like two words could cover that concept  pretty  well."
>-- G.  Carlin).

Carlin, maybe, but not Williams.  While I like much of his humor, a lot
of the rest is *very* racist - usually at the expense of Asians.

-- 
Ed Gould                    mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
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