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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!ofa123!Wales.Larrison
- From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Response and Request
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
- Message-ID: <n1330t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 22:21:02
- Lines: 50
-
- I'll apologise for this message to the general patrons of the bar --
- I tried to take this to email and the message bounced.
-
- Rich Krum/Troll -- here's the bounceback message...
- ] ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- ]Connected to theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov:
- ]>>> RCPT To:<rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov>
- ]<<< 550 <rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov>... User unknown
- ]550 <theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov!rich@jpl-mil.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>... User
- ]unknown
-
- And the message ...
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Rich Krum/Troll writes:
-
- >Obligatory Joke:
- > How can you tell the difference between a "California Cowboy" and
- >a real cowboy?
- >
- >The real cowboy has manure on the OUTSIDE of his boots-----
- >
- > --Troll, who is not a real cowboy (and doesn't wear boots much) --
-
- Ahh Troll...
- Could you do me a favor and NOT tell such California jokes?
-
- 1) I'm a native California, so's my wife, and so's my family.
-
- 2) I grew up wearing boots and working around cattle. Primarily
- dairy cattle, but lots of the folks in the area wore Stetsons and
- boots, and rode and owned horses. I've squished my way through lots
- of muck in my boots, and I know what side the muck stays on.
- My wife's from Northern California, up in the Lassen area, and her
- family still makes money from grazing fees for range cattle.
- I'm not a California Cowboy, but I've got friends who come pretty
- close to being real California Cowboys in that they ride, rope, and
- raise range cattle.
-
- 3) I find the joke rather offensive. It's not a play on words
- or a social commentary, but a direct derogatory statement. Change
- the word "California" in "California Cowboy" to any other ethnic
- group, and it's still derogatory.
-
- <<Sigh>> -- I try to be thick-skinned, but for some reason, this
- joke really offended me.
- - Sincerely -
- Wales Larrison
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.01wb
-