Aunc.1606 net.jokes utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!wm Fri Dec 18 21:23:06 1981 bad jokes on the net Some of the jokes submitted to net.jokes.q have been in fairly poor taste, and I wish that people would clean up their act a little. But I don't think that having your boss breathing down your neck saying "I'm paying phone bills for dirty jokes?" is a good reason to stop them. If your boss objects (or even MIGHT object) to dirty jokes, just turn them off in your .ngfile, and he/she will never see them. GOSH! If you have this much trouble solving simple problems, no wonder your boss is breathing down your neck. Now kiddies, a simple way to tell if a joke is unsuitable (in my opinion) is if it depends upon some prejudiced or offensive remark about some particular group for its punchline. This clearly includes the joke about jews not tipping, or the german oven jokes. And some of the dead baby jokes, really now. Not that I mind dead baby jokes, but some people seem to think that any joke with a dead baby in it is funny. Makes me wonder about computer people... ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.