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In article <141@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
>In article <443@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) writes:
>>Wright, but still rong. The joke insinuated that the prostitute *thought*
>>not getting paid enough was rape. The joke hinges on the very fact that
>>not getting paid enough is NOT a definition of rape, and that's why all
>>of us folks who know that thought the joke was funny.
>
>I get the impression that much of the cntroversy over this joke centers  on
>the  use  of  the  loaded word "rape" in the punch line.  Let me propose an
>alternative:
>
>                        "Damn!  I've been seduced!"
>
>This is the way I originally heard the joke told, mumble  years  ago.  Does
>this version moderate anyone's opinions?

I don't know.  It does make it a dumber joke.  There was an earlier suggestion
to make it a joke about a "working woman".  Again, that makes the joke dumber.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720