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Thank-you Mark!!! I agree. A good joke is funny whether it's a queer one, asian, black, jewish, newfie, italian, polish, greek, catholic, whatever. If it's done with malice then it really isn't a joke.
Sorry if I left out any religions or ethnicities, that wasn't intentional. LOL
 
Now that everything is settled down, and we firmly believe each other we don't intend no ofense to no one, here is my joke.

A really big, muscular, enormous black guy is drinking heavily in a bar. An obviously gay small man can't believe his luck in finding such a stud and he gets close to the man and whispers in his ear if he would like to get a b__w j_b. The black man immediately hits the small man in the middle of the face with his closed fist, and keeps hitting him until he literally throws him out of the bar. When he comes back to be bar the bartender asks him, what had the small man told him that had offended him so much. I dunnno, said the black man, something about a job.
 
It's one thing to tell a joke, and it's another to turn it nasty. For example, the camel joke, followed by the reply: "I feel well qualified to say there is no such thing as too many Catholic-bashing jokes."

I found the humor in the joke, but saw the incredible ignorance in the above quoted reply. I went through Catholic schooling about 9 years later than the author, and now maybe I feel qualified to say that only someone very weak of mind could have their conscience permanently scarred by such schooling. My assertion is as ridiculous as the quote, of course, but I said it to make a point.

I would agree that telling a joke "against" any group without malice may be funny, but isn't the telling of it in and of itself potentially malicious?

And, no, I ain't the most PC person... believe me. I say lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself. At least that's what I'm trying to do!

Now, having just watched Family Guy, I know that Santa Clause isn't Asian. I know it's true since Stewie said he can't be because he isn't driving 20mph under the speed limit with his blinker on! And, if you've ever used your ironing board as a buffet table, you might just be a Redneck!

Chuck
 
Rich, a lot can change in 9 years. Something tells me that if you even had any nuns for teachers, they weren't scaring you with cold war stories of the communists marching down the street and taking over the school and burning all of the books. That's just one example of the terror a deranged nun could inflict on a class of 50 second graders. I could provide many other examples from 8 years worth of this sort of B.S.

I long ago lost respect for any type of organized religion. The Catholic faith has claimed followers from many races and walks of life and I don't feel that Catholic jokes are directed at any one segment of the diverse global community. It's also difficult for me to understand how anyone would want to rush to the defense of such a corrupt and obscenely wealthy organization as the Catholic church, a band of hypocrites preaching the virtues of poverty and self-denial. I won't even get into the whole molestation thing, of which we have only seen a small tip of a giant iceberg.

Most likely the joke I posted didn't always include a priest and a nun, but that's the way I heard it. Feel free to make the necessary adjustments to suit your target audience and avoid offending anyone.
 
I don’t particularly care that for original joke of this thread myself, I did not think it was funny because it could insult some of our members, and I would hate for that to happen, but maybe that’s just me and I'll get over it. But reading through this thread does shed some interesting light on what kind of discrimination is acceptable and what is not…

It's the same with any race - people from the Midwest, at least back in the 70's, thought that Mexicans and Spanish were hilarious.

I would be interested to hear what the definition of "Midwest" is because Virginia and Houston, TX couldn't be further from the geographical Midwest. And as preposterous as that sounds, if it was even remotely true that all people from the Midwest thought that Mexicans and Spanish were "hilarious", one has to wonder if that came out what they had seen on television and at the movies that were written and produced by people who live in a town called Hollywood, which I believe is in a Midwestern state called California. ;0
 
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It's Chuck, not Rich. I'm careful to sign my name when I post so there isn't any confusion there. Don't wanty Rich taking any hits for anything I say! :-)

Once again, it wasn't the joke itself; just the ancillary comment made.

Chuck
 
OK, I should have said, "I have met people from the Midwest back in the 70's and 80's who made fun of Mexicans and the Spanish language. At the time I attributed it to their nervousness over being exposed to a culture and language they did not understand. I still think that is the case, although obviously the Midwest has become more cosmopolitan since then."

As for Hollywood, well, it generally caters to the lowest common denominator across the nation. Nobody I know would equate Hollywood with the rest of California, especially not with the SF Bay Area.
 
As a third generation Chinese American I still get questions periodically from strangers asking me if I speak English. I usually laugh it off and will make some smart remark back to that person. It's this kind of subtle discrimination of not understanding other people's culture and background/language that perpetuates this kind of comment from people.
 
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My partner recently claimed to be quoting W when he was speaking about the global economy or something along those lines. To paraphrase, our fearless leader stated that the reason behind France's economic issues is that ". . . the French don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'"
 
Broudreaux and Thibodaux (pronounced "boo-DRO" and "tih-bo-DO") were out dere on da boat fishin. Boudreaux had to take his lil' baby wit him cause dat wife was out shoppin. After a while a funny smell filled the air. "Boudreaux" said Thib "I t'ink your lil' babe' done caca'd in his pantz. you might wanna change hiz diaper."

Boudreaux said "Dat's alright, them diapers says they hold up to 12 pounds an' he only got 6 pounds a shit in it."
 

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