Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!dartvax!merchant From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Re: Re: 'Offensive' jokes, minoritie - (nf) Message-ID: <1881@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 12:51:20 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.1881 Posted: Tue Jun 19 12:51:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:52:56 EDT References: <233@ism780.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 18 George Carlin's "Ice Box Man", in a way, has a butt of the joke. His humour, I think, is pointing out all the weird things that happen to us that we don't think about. But, in a way, we are the butt of the joke. How many times have you listened to one of his routines and said "Yeah, I've done that!" You are laughing at yourself. However, since the subject matter is not really that painful, it's not bad. His schtick on the elevator is a good example. "There's nothing to do on an elevator except not look at the other guy." Lots of people feel very uncomfortable on elevators. You're laughing at yourself because you, too, feel uncomfortable. In other words, I think the butt still exists. -- "Wonderful WINO! The big sound in the big town!" -- George Carlin