ok no mo jokes since about 90% of the jokes i know are not pc.
Well, I don't know about "pc" but if you mean jokes where Anglos (or any other religious or racial group) are the butt of the joke, just as one poster here, and speaking only for myself, thanks. That said, I'd enjoy hearing the other 10%.
Milo, I'm sorry if my reply hurt or angered you -- that wasn't my intention or desire, and if that happened as a result of me expressing my feelings, I apologize. I think I've always been consistent in terms of expressing my views as outlined in my prior post; my words were not directed at you specifically, but rather at the issue as a whole.
Again, if this issue is something anyone here would like to discuss, as a general, broad issue, I'd enjoy that. If not now, maybe some other time.
ok no mo jokes since about 90% of the jokes i know are not pc.
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The state of Arizona listened to the Wise Old Indian's thoughts on daylight savings time..
When told the reason for daylight saving time, the old Indian said, 'Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.'
The easier answer is that we don't need to "save" any daylight -- we're the "sunniest" state in the nation.
Even so, there is daylight savings within the geographic confines of Arizona in one area; the Navajo Nation observes it.
lol.
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 at 19:34, 2008-10-11
You know, I really fought bringing this up, and wasn't going to, but ... I have to ask, and truly, I don't mean this in a confrontational way, OK?
If I'd posted a "dumb Indian" joke here, I'm pretty sure it would be uniformly condemned as being racist, wouldn't it?
I know, Milo, you didn't mean the joke in a hurtful way; I do know that. But JMO.... any joke which has as a punch line a race, creed, or nationality is. That's just my way of making it easy for myself, I guess. If it can be told without the race, creed, or nationality, mentioned, then I'll tell it that way if it can't? Then it "ain't right" in my book.
I honestly don't mean to say this in a judgmental way... maybe it's something we can openly discuss here, though. "Online entities" have accused me, in a ridiculing way, in the past of being "too politically correct." (No one who posts on this board yet, incidentally.) See, the way I look at it, "political correctness" is just another word-phrase for considerate, but nobody gets knocked around for being "too considerate." That would be ... "silly," wouldn't it. So? The easy way is to change the expression.
I saw an interesting PSA the other night on TV. (I was doing something else at the time, an only half way heard it, really.) It stated out with some kids saying something was "so gay" and then it was changed to "Oh, that's so Lisa and Susan" or whatever the two female names were, and then someone said: "hunh?" and "got" it. I was pleased to hear the spot because that particular phrase has bugged me for a long time, and kids saying it usually have no real concept of what it is they're really saying. Just like when people use words like "retard" or "spaz." I wonder if they'd say that about someone in front of a metally retarded person, or the sibling of a mentally retarded person.
A little side story: :) When I was still in grade school, fourth grade, maybe, one of the neighborhood kids was going on and on about "Jews" and I honestly don't know why I did it, except maybe to shut him up, but I finally turned to him, and said very quietly:
"My mother's Jewish."
Now ... she isn't... LOL but the expression on that boy's face was priceless. I guess my point is, she certainly could have been -- you just never know. I don't think I ever fessed up to my bald face lie, but I do remember it, because it was a lie, and the way I was raised, being a liar was akin to being a Nazi, and that's pretty much stuck with me. Since I'm fessing up to lies .... I also lied about losing my violin book. I didn't lose it; I buried it on the playground, because the Spring Concert was fast approaching, and I did NOT want to be one of those kids sitting up there in that gawd-awful "beginning strings" section during that portion of the program. (Who knew I'd have to buy another book, before the concert with my allowance?? And yeah, I lied about the bunnies ganging up on me and on some secret bunny-talk command, all leaping upon me as I was feeding them, knocking me to the ground, before I'd regained my composure, making a mad dash for freedom from the bunnie hutch, never to be seen again, except from a distance, but that's another story. I was four then. I still feel pretty guilty about that, too. STILL don't know why my parents never busted me for that ......... LOL.
Where was I ... oh yeah. Mom's not Jewish. <---- dirty.
The state of Arizona listened to the Wise Old Indian's thoughts on daylight savings time..
When told the reason for daylight saving time, the old Indian said, 'Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.'
The easier answer is that we don't need to "save" any daylight -- we're the "sunniest" state in the nation.
Even so, there is daylight savings within the geographic confines of Arizona in one area; the Navajo Nation observes it.
The state of Arizona listened to the Wise Old Indian's thoughts on daylight savings time..
When told the reason for daylight saving time, the old Indian said, 'Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.'
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my days left here may not be long, I wouldn't waste my time telling you nothing wrong, love is a flower that needs the sun and the rain, alittle bit of pleasure is worth a whole lot of pain. no pain no gain. betty wright
lol. 
STILL don't know why my parents never busted me for that ......... LOL. 
<---- dirty.