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From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Anti-AIDS jokes fanatics (flame)
Message-ID: <814@x.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 21:14:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: x.814
Posted: Tue Oct 22 21:14:21 1985
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Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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Keywords: That one's actually funny!
Summary: Thank YOU!

In article <5763@tekecs.UUCP> jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>> I'm sick of these alleged jokes, and would like to suggest the creation of a
>> new newgroup, net.homophobe.  

Now that I'm in the right group, let me try again.  AIDS jokes may or may not
be funny.  Most of them aren't.  But I'm bored with jokes that merely 
provide a dim excuse for homophobia.

>Yeah, well I'm sick of these twits who don't know or care that discussions of
>this type are supposed to go in net.jokes.d, not net.jokes. 

You're right about that -- I should have moved my article, and I didn't.

>How about a
>new newsgroup called net.people.who.for.some.stupid.reason.think.that.only.
>homophobes.tell.and.enjoy.aids.jokes? 

Perhaps the reason I've had the impression only homophobes tell aids jokes is
that until today, every aids joke I've seen seemed homophobic to me.

>Haven't you ever heard of "gallows
>humor", you oh-so-sensitive oh-so-serious anti-aids-jokes people?

Yes, and since I am "hung up" about friends dying from aids, I could use some
of it -- that's why I don't "n" past.

>(Flame off)

Good!  Sorry I tarred you with the homophobe brush, because when I saw the
next lines of your posting, I broke up!  There is a funny aids joke!  Maybe
there are even more.

>Great cartoon in "World Press Review" this last month. Shows Dracula sitting
>in the waiting room of an AIDS clinic with a long face on.

Thank you, sir!

				STella Calvert

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