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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Non-Offensive Jokes
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 18:45:32 EST
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A while back the question arose if non-offensive jokes existed.
Jokes whose victims are chosen based on occupation seem to fit
this category very well.

There are the sharks that won't eat lawyers out of professional
courtesy, the economists who assume a can opener, the mathematicians
who are logical and useless, and so on.

Here's one (probably well-known, but what the hay):

If architects built buildings the way programmers program programs,
the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization as
we know it.

Now why are these de jure offensive jokes not de facto offensive,
even to the intended victim?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720