Re: OT Urgent Alert

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:38:07 GMT, Joe <avoidingspam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Spike <jma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>news:jqt7g1p2cho72tdhhf1subrnl8ipaup67p@xxxxxxx:
>
>> 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

>
>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.

Some time ago PETA said they were going after sport fishermen for
inflicting pain on the fish by using hooks. If McD's starts selling
elephant burgers, I can hear PETA screaming!!!! Of course these are
the people who don't want you to wear fur, but they will wear leather
shoes and belts and carry leather purses and wallets.
>
>> 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 ***! "Me name Jose Jimenez..." LOL!

Lord! Somebody else remembers him!!!! 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!

Amos & And were standard fare when i was a kid. Dad would tune them in
one his ham equipment and we'd laugh through dinner.

But, hey, Benny Hill and Monty Python still crack me up.
>
>> 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.

Run ! HIDE!! IT'S THE PC POLICE!!!
>
>
>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:50:37 GMT, "Jim Warman"
>> <mechanic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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!

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!
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