From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!keithe
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: ethnic joke guideline
Article-I.D.: teklabs.1209
Posted: Thu Jun  3 08:17:28 1982
Received: Sat Jun  5 00:54:28 1982

	Here is a proposed guideline for the submission of ethnic jokes
to the network. (This is actually a re-submission of an idea originally
contributed several months ago and apparently unseen by many of the
current users).
	Jokes which are based upon or derive their humorous content from
the alleged "deficiencies" of any specific ethnic background can
usually be regarded as not suitable for submission to this forum. Tell
them at your private lunches, parties or whatever but keep them off the
net. If, on the other hand, a joke merely uses nationality or ethnic
background to identify the characters in the joke then by all means
submit it. A test for this is to try the joke with the (original)
ethnic references replaced by "Ethnic #1", "Ethnic #2", etc. ("Two
Ethnics are walking down the road when Ethnic #1 says..."). If the
joke still works, it's a winner. If not, then flush it, don't submit
it.

(signed)
			keith ericson at teklabs
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