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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (JB)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Offensive humor
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 10:25:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 10:25:28 1986
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[for those of who who can't tell, i just be jokin' around here]

In article <2453@reed.UUCP> clyde@reed.UUCP (Clyde Bryja) writes:
>> In article <428@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) writes:
>> >	The question: Are ALL jokes offensive in SOME way to SOMEone?
>> >Can anyone supply a joke that is completely inoffensive to anybody
>> >(yet still funny to someone)? 
>> 
>> [jokes'n'stuff deleted - bdc]
>>
>It seems to be very hard not to make a joke that offends some people.
>I suspect that only those that are very distanced from human events/
>experience are able to fit the bill.  With that theory in mind, I throw
>the following example to the wind.  Can anyone find a reason why this
>simple joke would offend anyone?
>
>	Q:  What did one rock say to the other rock?
>	A:  Nothing.  Rocks can't speak.

You insensitive cad!  How could you poke fun at poor Rock Hudson,
knowing the dreadful way he died?  "Rocks can't speak" indeed!

Lots of jokes are 99&44/100% inoffensive, but somebody somewhere
is bound to take offensive at 'em anyway. 

(Especially if you dare me to! 8-)

-- 

--JB         (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth)

"I once heard the remainder of a colony of ants, which had been partially
 obliterated by a cow's foot, seriously discussing the intentions of the
 gods towards their civilization."   -- Archy the Cockroach