"Joe" wrote in message news:jCbNe.15595$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews6.bellsouth.net... : Spike wrote in : news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com: : : > In these times of Political Correctness... so many are so afraid of : > offending that they lose their humor. The same humor which really : > has helped many people survive some of the most trying times of : > their lives. : : I'm an equal opportunity offender and I'm still trucking along here... : : > If we can not laugh at ourselves, then who can we laugh at? : : WF for not changing his oil? Couldn't resist... ;) (there's the : smiley, Kate!) :
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: > And in : > my case, I am Irish, Scottish, English, German, Dutch, Italian, : > Oneida, Cherokee, Anglican, Protestant, LDS, Methodist, Catholic, : > and Lord knows what else. Among my mixed bag of friends, blacks tell : > the best black jokes, Catholics tell the best Catholic jokes, Poles : > tell the best Pollack jokes, etc. : >
: > To follow your lead, since animal jokes bother members of PETA (and : > I don't mean People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) elephant jokes : > are not allowed. : : Read in today's paper about some guy who wants to bring lions, tigers, : and elephants to the midwestern plains. No joke. So maybe after a : while McDonalds will start sell McElephant burgers. : : > Many years ago a night club entertainer got a TV show where he : > portrayed a bumbling Mexican hotel bellhop. His name was Bill Dana : > and his character was Jose Jimenez. He was a Mexican. Many Mexicans : > loved his show. But a lot of do gooders raised hell because he was : > making fun of Mexicans. He quit the show and television in protest. : : That guy was funnier than shit! "Me name Jose Jimenez..." LOL! : : > Redd Foxx had similar problems with Sanford and Son. It was not the : > black general audience who raised a stink. It was the more radical : > elements, and a larger group of white people. : : Another fabulous guy. Just too funny! : : > Bill Cosby, who had : > one of the best family shows faced similar problems. Not from blacks : > so much as from whites who were trying so hard to prove they were : > not prejudice. : : Cosby was one of the funniest guys on tv. All In The Family was : another great one. Too bad the PC crowd won those battles... : : The granddad of 'em all was Amos & Andy. Can you imagine if that : stuff were on today? LOL! : : > It's much the same as when, in the interests of eradicating : > discrimination for minorities, whites are discriminated against. : > Whites, few of whom ever thought of owning a slave. Many of those : > whose ancestors did not immigrate to the US until long after slavery : > had been abolished. How can we say discrimination is wrong if we : > discriminate to prove it? : >
: > How can we say ethnic humor is wrong when the best ethnic humor : > originates within those very groups? : : Most of us laugh at ethnic jokes in private, but don't dare do so in : public, especially in mixed ethnic company. The point is simply that : ethnic jokes are indeed funny, regardless of what the PC crowd says. : : > So. Tell me... when will humor be officially outlawed? When will the : > Thought Police show up at my door? : : They've already invaded our homes through the media. Screw 'em all. : : : > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:50:37 GMT, "Jim Warman" : > wrote: : >
: >>To each his own.... What I find abhorrant are those that preach : >>equality yet fail to live it. OTOH, I reserve the right to use : >>ethnicity in amusing ways if I so choose... all the while treating : >>all people fair and equal. : >>
: >>Many years ago, when we were wild and adventurous, a dear old friend : >>would phone from Red Earth Creek to tell me he was coming to Slave : >>Lake.... "You can drink until you go Indian and I'll drink until I : >>go white", he would tell me.... : >>
: >>FWIW, I find those having problems with these sorts of amusements : >>have concerns with their equality.... they either wind up being : >>condescending in it's application, so overly concerned with : >>appearances that relationships are stilted or have a downright : >>slanted vision of their own version of equality that they can't see : >>how it affects interaction. : >>
: >>If my Lebanese friends and I can't joke back and forth, we can't be : >>very good friends.... If my Japanese friends and I can't joke back : >>and forth..... the same holds true for my many aboriginal friends as : >>well as friends with many other backgrounds... ethnic, racial, : >>religious.... : >>
: >>Do I bend over backwards to recognize their minority? No.... I : >>embrace them as Canadians.... un-hyphenated Canadians. : >>
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: > Spike : > 1965 Ford Mustang fastback 2+2 A Code 289 C4 Trac-Lok : > Vintage Burgundy w/Black Standard Interior; Vintage 40 : > 16" rims w/BF Goodrich Comp T/A gForce Radial : > 225/50ZR16 KDWS skins; surround sound audio-video. : >
: > Gad what fools these morons be.... : > Children are obscene but should not be heard : > Give me a peperoni pizza... or give me a calzone! :