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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: traditional values, Salome, and a Siberian joke at the end.
Message-ID: <140@midas.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 13:48:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 13:48:22 1986
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Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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In article <1155@oddjob.UUCP> apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) writes:
>
>     Fr. Woolley's punchline's humor content derives from a prostitute
>calling a breach of contract rape. That's funny if you think this is a good
>illustration of the humorous little foibles of {prostitutes, women, sexually
>active women: choose your own category}. But if you think that, you're very
>very stupid and not the sort of person who ought to be involved in the real
>world. (Particularly bad careers for you are those of police officer, parent,
>or priest.) To many of the rest of us, the suggestion is extremely offensive:
>more so as it fits into a widespread and dangerous mythology about women.
>(One caveat: some people - including Fr. Woolley - say the joke is really the
>discovery that the woman is a prostitute. I suppose this element is also
>there, though it doesn't send me into paroxyms. But I don't understand how
>you can claim this is the main part of the joke, still less the only part.)

Well, if can't figure out I'm saying in the next few paragraphs,
connect me with that pet mollusk. I'm sure it will understand.

If you don't think a joke is funny, you look pretty silly trying to explain
to everyone where its humor lies.

I've got a theory: Most people are not assholes. Most people do not think
rape is funny. Therefore most people who found the joke funny, did for the
reason Fr. Woolley claims. (And those that didn't, didn't because the word
rape brought on too many other very unfunny associations.)

I've got another theory. Some people (fortunately, not many) like to
prove their imagined moral superiority in front of a wide audience by
setting up straw men and ostentatiously knocking them down.

					Jeff Winslow
					"Occam's? Best for Shaving!"