HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jwc@netxcom.netx.com (Jeff Comer)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Summary: Cascades, a net.wave effect
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:48:48 GMT
Organization: The Chaos Bobs

In article <1992Aug21.163522.17650@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
>What ethnic group will be doing the cleaning?
What ethnic food will do the feeding?
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.polish,alt.censorship
From: rjromanc@sun1.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Richard Romanczyk)
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:43:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.235652.21827@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>
>People should relax a bit and take life as a joke. This is the
>1,424,343,234,234 message I see regarding racial/ethnic jokes. If you want to
>argue, you should also consider jokes at certain groups as well as female and
>males. All it comes down to is, tell whatever you want to tell people but keep
>it in the appropriate conferences (rec.humor). I can give you a 10 page essay
>on this subject but it totally useless. I personally don't care if somebody
>tells a joke that might be offensive to my origin (I am so many that I have a
>real hard time remembering). As far as females is concerned, I dig 'em. As
>long as one has ball savvy and knows how to work the prong, I DON'T CARE WHERE
>THEY ARE FROM!!! As you can see, I am looking for a romantic relationship. ;-)
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Mark K.
>PhD in sexual engineering. Specialising in hands-on experiences.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't think this disclaimer will help you get one.  Unless you want to
keep specializing hands-on masturbation.


From: Monroe.Thomas@ttlg.UUCP (Monroe Thomas)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Tom Swifties
Date: 25 Aug 92  23:04:20 mst

OK... I deign to share a portion of my infamous Tom Swifty
file:

"My pants are wrinkled," said Tom ironically.
"Brew me more coffee," said Tom perkily.
"I've dropped my toothpaste," said Tom crestfallen.
"I'm going to kill Dracula," said Tom painstakingly.
"I passed my ECG," said Tom wholeheartedly.
"My glasses are fogged," said Tom optimistically.
"I like Turing machines," said Tom haltingly.
"Don't hurt sea mammals!" wailed Tom blubberingly.
"I sleep best outdoors," said Tom intently.
"Ben Hogan recovered his golf ball," said Tom profoundly.
"Take the prisoner downstairs," said Tom condescendingly.
"I glued the sheets of wood back together," Tom replied.
"I'll get blood from you yet," Tom probed vainly.
"This meat is hard to chew," Tom beefed jerkily.
"I train big cats to fight," Tom lionized categorically.
"You're a mangy cur," Tom barked doggedly.
"My pet frog died," Tom croaked.
"I love cats," Tom mused.
"I love beagles," Tom dogmatized.
"That's no beagle; that's a mongrel," Tom muttered.
"I used to be a miner!" Tom exclaimed.
"I hate sweet potatoes," Tom yammered.

More upon request...

-Monroe

 * OLX 2.2 * "I can see myself," Tom reflected.

 * Origin: Through the Looking Glass (42:100/14)
From: kmitcham@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kevin Mitcham)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Tom Marlowe is a dork
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:26:01 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

>Who is Karl Kistler, anyway?

>TSM
you don't know who Karl Kistler is?  The Karl Kistler?  You claim not to know him?  What planet are you from, man?  Do you ever get out? geez, not knowing who Karl Kistler is. Amazing.
He is the guy who lives down the hall from Matt Cheney.


Don't they teach people anything in college?
From: cybapunk@hovel.welly.gen.nz (Phil Ross)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Christian Joke
Keywords: Pah!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:22:00 +1200
Distribution: World
Organization: The Hovel Bulletin Board System

marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch) writes:

> "Jesus is hanging on the cross and down below at the bottom
> of the hill, Peter is mourning the loss of their saviour and leader.
> Suddenly he hears a faint voice calling to him..."Peter....Peter"
> and he turns and starts to run up the hill toward Jesus on the cross.
> Before he can get to the top the Roman soldiers shew him away and,
> dejected, he goes back down the hill."
> 
> 
> I was exactly referring to filth like this, anyone that can post
> a joke like this, I know that the person has no morals, and is
> willing to do anything to make a hit. I have heard religious jokes

I _would_ post something like this.  I have morals, and frankly I don't give
a damn if I make a hit or not.  I'm sorry I didn't post that joke before
the other person did.

> but this is cynic, calculated and out right blasphomous trying to
> degrade the suffering of Christ.

Ahem.  This is rec.humor.  It goes through alot of countries.  I guess your
extreme piety blinds you to the fact that there are other religons out there
too.

> I don't understand how all you
> Christians are just sitting back and allow this kind of stuff.

Perhaps they can take a joke.  Perhaps they have a sense of humour.

Ob joke:  A man walks into a bar.  "Ouch!"  .. It was an iron bar.

"I don't understand how all you bar patrons can stand for this!!"
"I don't understand how you iron bars just sit back and allow this stuff!"

Wake up to reality.

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cybapunk@tornado.welly.gen.nz  X Sysop of The Hovel BBS
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     ... If at first you don't succeed, redefine success ...
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.polish,alt.censorship
From: ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Omar Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: American joke (Re: Polack joke ?)
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:27:30 GMT
	<1992Aug24.231533.26201@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Senior, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>eddie@marmite.UK.Sun.COM (Eddie Krupa - Sun EHQ - IR Contractor) writes:
>>PS..anyone know any good American jokes..? ( Just kidding..!  ;-)     )
>
>Ooh, ooh! I can't resist!
>
>Jan:	What do you call someone who can speak 3 languages?
>Jean:	Trilingual.
>Jan:	What do you call someone who can speak 2 languages?
>Jean:	Bilingual.
>Jan:	What do you call someone who can speak only 1 language?
>Jean:	An American.
>
>8-)

That's because we only NEED one language.  We just make every one else
speak it :)

					Tom the non hacker
					Kemp in 96!
					"If patriotism is the last refuge
					of scoundrels,  Then environmentalism
					is the current refuge of totalitarians."
					Bob Jackson
From: syspb@smartstar.com (Paul)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Hi-tech jokes
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:06:53 GMT
Organization: none

Assembly language:
   Ah, shit.  This damn thing doesn't fit.  Where's the frickin hammer?

NTSC Video:
   NTSC stands for Never The Same Color

# light?
light?: no match

   What a Southerner says when he wants a second helping of blackeye peas

__

Speaking of Southerners, you know you are a Redneck when your mother
doesn't take the cigarrette out from between her lips, when she tells
the Highway Patrolman to kiss her ass.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: punchlines in search of jokes. dir
From: psantucci@desire.wright.edu
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:20:31 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <1992Aug27.121952.58439@cc.usu.edu>, slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>      These are not intrinsically funny.  They sound like they could
> be, with the right setup.  Anyone got a good one?
> 
> "I wouldn't mind so much if he wasn't always humming 'La Marsellaise'
> in the bathroom."
> 
> "Ghost riders in disguise."
> 
>      Note:  The first is original.  The second a friend of mine wants
> a joke to.  The best I can do is a bad pun about uncredited authors at
> a masquerade.

I have the same problem with a line from a friend of mine:

"No, its a zoom lens!"

I know there's a joke in here somewhere just screaming to get out.

PATMAN
From: a_hortonjr@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: re: bush campain t.v. ad
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:21:33 GMT
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

The junior senetor from the state between "Texas and Oklahoma".

What a bunch of morons yall are, the only thing between Texas and Oklahoma is
the red river!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If clinton's been living in it, no wonder it's so polluted.

Get a life, get out of the dark room and see more of the world.


Ok, Ok so i am a little bit of a moron too, But at least i have a good excuse:

I have NEVER posted anything to news and i am still trying to figure it out.


And now for something completely different:

Are you tired of people yelling  HEY  ????


Next time they do just yell back:

"Hey is for steers and queers and i don't see your horns!!
Xref: sparky rec.humor:27754 alt.folklore.urban:22776 rec.arts.sf.misc:2802
From: claude@trc.mew.mei.co.jp (Claude Huss)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:22:20 GMT
	<1992Sep2.182106.6219@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
	<92246.162407HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Sep3.001007.29526@wam.umd.edu>
	<92246.222116HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IF THIS DOESN'T STOP, IM GOING TO START THE WORST CASCADE EVER.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>WHILE EATING THIS SLOP, I SEWED THE FIRST BROCADE BEAVER.
>>>>>>>>>>>>BILE FITTING RIG STOP, LIE SPEWED THIRST LIVER !!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>IF YOU MUST CONTRIBUTE, AT LEAST DELIVER...
>>>>>>>>>>WHO MAY I ATTRIBUTE TO THIS BEASTLY SLIVER?
>>>>>>>>>TO SPAY A LUTE IN A GREASY RIVER
>>>>>>>>DAMN CASCADERS THINK YOU'RE SO CLEVER
>>>>>>>I WILL NOT CASCADE; NOPE, NO, NEVER
>>>>>>WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, ON A TRAIN?
>>>>>WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, IN THE RAIN?
>>>>R2-D2 ON THE BRAIN?
>>>This cascade is damn insane!
>>And it's really getting lame!
>POST IN CAPS YOU WEIRDOS, WHAT ARE YOU DEAF ? !!!!!!!!!!!!
> YOUVE RUINED MY RIGHT EAR, HOW 'BOUT THE LEFT?
I'M TRYING TO DO A CAR THEFT



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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu
Subject: ISO
Originator: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:25:23 GMT

The following ad appears in the ISO section of the September 1992
issue of the "Washingtonian", a yuppy fodder, glossy, upscale
magazine published in Washington DC:


                                    WANTED!
                                   GOOD WOMAN

                             Must be able to cook,
                             scrub, sew, dig worms,
                                and clean fish.
                           Must have boat and motor.
                             Please send picture of
                                boat and motor.

[P.O Box number deleted]


Wasn't this ad making the rounnds of rec.humor some time ago?

By the way, ISO means "In search of", as in "Boy wants to meet girl, etc."

--
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: anton@gagme.chi.il.us (Andrzej Borowiec)
Subject: Re: Cannibal Jokes
Originator: anton@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:05:40 GMT

A cannibal and his son are walking through the forest looking for
the game. They see an old woman. The son says: "Dad, there's
one. Let's eat her."
"No son." Says father "She is too old, her meat isn't tasty."
They walk a while longer.
They see a nice young chick.
"Hey, dad, that one will make a great dinner!"
"Well, son, I don't think it's a good idea. I'll take
this one to our hut though, and we'll eat your mother
for supper."


Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
From: cawa@css.itd.umich.edu (Chris Pugh)
Subject: Re: Guns don't kill ...
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:10:13 GMT

Does anyone have a file of lawyer jokes?  If so, could you please e-mail
it to me?  My finacee would get a big kick out of them, as I'm about
to start my legal practice next month.

Chris
-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
Christopher A. Pugh             e-mail: cawa@css.itd.umich.edu
					Christopher_Pugh@um.cc.umich.edu
					USERW58U@umichum.bitnet
From: prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Fat wife jokes
Date: 28 Aug 1992 01:24:50 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem)
NNTP-Posting-Host: prem.lbl.gov

In article <1992Aug27.192825.5769@verdix.com> robert@verdix.com (Robert Brown) writes:
>Could someone repost the fat wife jokes I saw not too long ago?
>Thanks in advance.

	Sorry. It's all over. She sang......
From: shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Make fun of others!
Date: 1 Sep 1992 18:15:10 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: merlin.think.com

In article <Btwu0M.BDK@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, dp35@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca (Greg Moore) writes:
|> varvel@plains.NoDak.edu (Andrew Varvel) writes:
|> >
|> >So why not just post a joke that pokes fun at allosaurs or Hittites?
|> 
|> A girl walked in to a bar at chest height.  I think it was Hittities.

Or howzabout:

What did the dinosaur first mate yell out before the ship left on cruise?

Allosaur who are goingasaur!

*Thump*
*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety
*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*plinkety*

I am losing all my marbles.
From: speers@opus.mcds.com (Daniel E. Speers)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Keywords: joke, very funny, haha, etc.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 19:06:15 EDT
Organization: Dan's Domain, Randolph, New Jersey

mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:

> >THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS NOT ABOUT HUNTING!!!  The colonials
> >|weren't hunting when they rose up against their oppressor to gain
> >|freedom.
> 
> >Hmmm. Did they have rocket launchers and semi-automatic rifles when the
> >second amendment was passed?  Just wondering?
> 
> Neither did the British, whats your point.
> -- 
> --Mark

  And what of the original question of arming bears?  Wouldn't
that make hunting more interesting? Hmmm??


And a SPECIAL note to those lack humor:  I think there was
supposed to be a joke in here!


SPEAKING of armed wildlife (see: Local bar), does anyone remember
the scene in Croc.Dundee with the armed Kangaroo?

Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
From: dstienek@gozer.idbsu.edu (Dan Stieneke)
Subject: Re: Christian Joke
Organization: Boise State University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:50:52 GMT

>
>>Tolerance is a Christian ethic.
>
>	Never has been.
>-- 
>Anthony Shipman                 "You've got to be taught before it's too late,
>CP Software Export Pty Ltd,      Before you are six or seven or eight,
>19 Cato St., East Hawthorn,      To hate all the people your relatives hate,
>Melbourne, Australia, 3121       You've got to be carefully taught."  R&H

Sorry, but I must disagree with you.  It is taught in the Bible.  Just because
some (maybe many) show no tolerance does not mean that it is not an ethic.
"Love the sinner, hate the sin" was the example given to us by Jesus.

Yes, I KNOW this is rec.humor, but I couldn't let that one slide.

Dan Stieneke (Go ahead & flame me.  I'm a Christian.  I have the world's 
greatest fire insurance!)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: lharris@upei.ca (Lora Harris)
Subject: American joke - potentially offensive - true story
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:42:44 GMT

	Someone requested American jokes.  Here's a true one - it not only 
happened to me, I came up with the punch line at 3 AM halfway into a very 
long journey by coach ( which may explain the quality thereof, but 
whattheheck, someone out there might like it!)

	There I was, trapped on a coach travelling from Stirling, Scotland, 
to London, England.  A fellow student from Stirling University was busy 
trying to reinforce the American tourist's bad image abroad, talking 
loudly, being opinionated, complaining that nothing was as good as it is 
back home in 'Mearica'.  I'd spent six months listening to this fellow 
ask for potato chips ( instead of crisps ) in bars, and for hamburger 
(instead of mince ) in the supermarket, getting angry each time the poor 
clerk or bartender didn't know what he meant.  Not the sort you want 
representing your country.

	Along about 3 AM, Mr. USA turns to me and says, "Hey, you're a 
Canadian, right?"  WIthout waiting for my reply, he said "You know, when a 
Mexican tries to get into the USA, we call them wetbacks.  I guess Canadians 
trying to get into the good old US of A would be called icycle-backs!" 
(Guffaw, guffaw).

	I turned to him and said, "Well, that's one I've never heard.  But 
you know what Canadians call Americans trying to get into Canada illegally?"
He looked confused.  "No, what?".  
"Draftdodgers."

	In the blessed silence that followed, I got a bit of sleep.

					Zant
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore)
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:12:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.224635.5375@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch) writes:
>
>I HEREBY STATE THAT THE FIRST AMMENDMENT ALLOWS ME TO CALL YOU ALL
>THESE NAMES.                  ^^^^^^^^^^
                                   |
                                   |
                 Hmm. Must be Polish.


-- 
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From: butler@norton.sni.de (Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: ANOTHER BLOND JOKE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:48:38 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany


How many blonds does it take to fit a light bulb ?????????????














ANSWER :        One, She just holds the light bulb and waits for the world
		to revolve around her.

SO THERE !
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.polish
From: marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch)
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Organization: trunking_fixed
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:30:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.213625.14257@gtephx.UUCP> forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.220742.5917@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug18.183738.17605@tin.monsanto.com> bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz) writes:
>> >It was just a joke.  I really don't think that Polish have any less brain power
>> >than anyone else.
>> >
>> >Brett
>> >
>> > 
>> 
>> Brett, your statements are very offensive to me - wheather you think
>> this is a joke or not you are just simply spreading hatred and
>> insults. As a community of intellectual's this cannot be tolerated
>> on the network and you should just simply stop posting this kind 
>> of crap; keep it to yourself. ALSO THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR 
>> SHOULD SEE TO THIS. 
>> 
>
>Mario Smarduch,
>
>You should move to f***ing China where the gov't takes care of all
>politically incorrect speech.  As long as you're on this net,
>you have the choice of reading it or not because, you see,
>the F***ING SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR CANNOT CONTROL WHAT PEOPLE
>SEND OVER THE NET! [See, I can yell too!].
>

Look you fucken dickhead, you can post this kind of shit in your
fucken brain dead "rec.humor" group but not in "soc.culture.polish"
you got it.

>
>
>Do ya know what the Polish wife said to her hubby?
>    "I dont ever wanna hear you S-A-Y fuck in front of the
>    kids again!"

I think it was your MAMA that said that!!!!


As far as I'm concerned you are fucken idiot and on top of that the
FIRST AMMENDMENT protects my right to have my opinion.

>
> 
>
>
>
>-- 
>"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with
>no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy.  However, 4 out of 5 US murders are 
>committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?"   -  Andrew Ford
>gtephx!forda@enuucp.eas.asu.edu  OR  !uunet!samsung!romed!enuucp!gtephx!forda
From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Completely non-ethnic joke
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:48:36 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

In article 12@upei.ca, lharris@upei.ca (Lora Harris) writes:
>
>	Wioth reference to the elephant joke - it works a bit better if you 
>tell it like this 
>
>	First of, make the couple British (English).  This is a true ethnic 
>joke, exploiting their traditional reserve.  The part with his mother 
[etc. deleted]

Of course, this loses the ethnic reference to the endowment of African-
descended men.

But it does show that you can ALWAYS find a substitute ethnic joke.

Someone mentioned that Poland becomes Belgium in France.  Substitute
Ireland in England (an Irish friend once said, after doing something
_really_ dumb, "You know what they say about the Irish: Strong like
bull.  Smart like tractor.").  Use Arab in Israel, and I'm sure, Israel
in Arab countries.

I think the real issue is, the ethnic ref. should NOT be there to offend.  It
should be there to give the listener some inside info.  If I started to
tell a joke about how what a lousy driver an (eg) Aussie is, the listener
would think, "Did I know that they're lousy drivers?" rather than take in
the joke.  If I told it about (**WARNING STEREOTYPES FOLLOW**) women or
Orientals, the listener would enjoy the joke.

All of the above should be ignored if you're going to tell jokes maliciously.

Btw, here in DC, there's a DJ who regularly tells jokes about a "dumb"
ethnic group: West Virginians.  I wonder how he built that up.  Or if the
jump from hick->dumb came about more or less naturally.

I don't know if WV'ans find him funny or not.

Personally, I think I'll just tell jokes like, "These two Quayles were..."

--f2
-------------------------------------
  "I want to grow up,
   to be a politician,
   And take over this beautiful land."
  --either the Byrds, or Bill Clinton, I can't remember which