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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Non-Offensive Jokes
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 20:57:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 20:57:15 1986
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In article <12086@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
>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.
>
>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?

'Cause they can laugh all the way to the bank?  Just a thought.

				Jeff Winslow
				"I'd rather have a fur" - Socrates