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- From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Seriously, a joke.
- In-Reply-To: ray@philmtl.philips.ca's message of 3 Jan 93 20:36:48 GMT
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- <1993Jan3.203648.11085@philmtl.philips.ca>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:02:25 GMT
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- [ note the followup-to header -russ ]
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- In article <1993Jan3.203648.11085@philmtl.philips.ca> ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:
-
- In refd article, trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks) writes:
- >I, too, find "offensive" a bit too strong...
-
- There was a couple of things mildly offensive about the post. The first is
- the motive of the poster - he chose his newsgroups cross-post list with at
- least an attempt to be controversial, if not deliberately offensive.
-
- No, it's because I enjoy a joke made about any particular groups that I belong
- to. Perhaps I shouldn't impute that enjoyment to others...
-
- The second is the subject line. Either the poster was trying to be clever
- and actually imply that he was serious, or he was falling into the trap
- that somehow you can be as offensive as you like so long as you protest
- that you're really only trying to make a joke. I've never understood that
- concept, it's like smiling as you stick the knife in, and expecting the
- recipient to be happy too.
-
- Perhaps you're reading this in rec.humor (followups are now to rec.humor.d),
- but the subject line was intended to alert people to the presence of a joke.
- I suppose I could have been less clever and simply said "Joke", but that
- wouldn't have done much for the readers of rec.humor, would it?
-
- --
- --russ <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Businesses persuade; Governments force.
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