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In article <11686@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@brahms.UUCP writes:
> 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.
> ........
> ><Another minute passes.>
> >Guy in the stall:  Say, buddy?
> >Other guy:  Yeah?
> >Guy in the stall:  You got change for a ten?
> >				      Fr. John Woolley
> 
> I cannot *believe* this homophobic "joke".  What are we supposed to
> make of this gay bathroom prostitution?

Prostitution??  Making change is hardly prostituion!

>                                         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!
> Just two questions:

  Well may be three ;-)

> (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?

I don't see it offensive to gays at all!

> (2) What was the "joke" doing in net.jokes? 

It is quite funny if you have ever been in that situation.

> (3) When do we get the difference-between-a-Jew-and-a-pizza "joke"?

This one never explicitly said anything about gays, you infered what was
obviously never implied!
 
> ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

I fail to see how this is offensive to gays at all.  I don't see gays
involved at ALL!  It is a play on the common situation where a person
male or female uses a toliet and has the misfortune to be out of TP and
tries desperately to find some way to clean thenselves.  The punchline
was that he was resorting to using money but didn't want to waste a
$10 bill.

It is true that the Catholic church doesn't look favorably on gays,
but that is totally irrevelant to the joke at hand.

				-David Robinson
				ia-sun2!david@csvax.caltech.edu