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From brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener:
>In article <361@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
>>Scene: a men's room.  There's a guy in one of the stalls.  Another guy
>>comes in, occupies himself.
>>
>>Guy in the stall:  Hey, buddy?  Is there any toilet paper out there?
>>Other guy:  Nope, don't see any.
>>
>><A minute passes.>
>>Guy in the stall:  Uh, buddy?  Any paper towels or anything out there?
>>Other guy:  Nope, there's nothing.
>>Guy in the stall:  Well, are there any newspapers?  Anything?
>>Other guy:  Nope, sorry.
>>
>><Another minute passes.>
>>Guy in the stall:  Say, buddy?
>>Other guy:  Yeah?
>>Guy in the stall:  You got change for a ten?
>
>I cannot *believe* this homophobic "joke".  What are we supposed to
>make of this gay bathroom prostitution?  I certainly fail to see any
>humor, and find this propagating of hateful stereotypes extremely
>offensive.
>
>Please, if Catholics must go on bashing gays, do so in the privacy
>of your own churches, not on the net!

	You're kidding, right? Or am I just naive? I've not only read
the joke, I think I "got" it, and I can't find any reference to gays
at all, much less an insulting one. If you're serious, try asking
someone to explain the jokes to you before you go public with your
Emily Latella outrage.

>Just two questions:
>(1) Do you understand that many of your readers are gay, or like gays, or 
>both, and for that reason regard those values with contempt?
>(2) What was the "joke" doing in net.jokes? 
>(3) When do we get the difference-between-a-Jew-and-a-pizza "joke"?

	That's three questions :-).

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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