Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: What making jokes signifies Message-ID: <1508@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 19:15:13 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1508 Posted: Fri Nov 30 19:15:13 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:15:16 EST References: <375@gitpyr.UUCP> <292@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: mangoe@maryland.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 16 In article <292@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes: >The use of the phrase "perhaps some Jew-baiting ... might work", whether >intended as a joke or not, sheds light on the author's not so well hidden >anti-Semitism (and anti-who-knows-what-else-ism). Obviously this means that I am virulently anti-Episcopalian, since (among my friends) I am always poking fun at my church. Really, Rich, this is the silliest excuse for rational argument I've seen. Poking fun at a group doesn't necessarily signify anything. [Enter :-) mode] And besides, Rich, you've illustrated my point so well. All I have to do to see if news is working in your neck of the woods is to post anything to net.religion.*. Besides, I now have a really good idea of what you consider to be Jew-baiting. [Exit :-) mode] Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe