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From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 22:55:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.160540.14355@walter.cray.com> aleks@cray.com (Aleksander Mazur) writes:
>
>In article <86791@netnews.upenn.edu> kkniaz@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Krzysztof W. Kniaz) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug21.192806.23628@dgbt.doc.ca> ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) writes:
>>
>>>Just as a point of clarification, is one allowed to "bash" one's own
>>>culture? I.E. is a Pole allowed to make "Polack jokes"?
>>
>>Sure, if you're a Pole (polish heritage would be OK I suppouse) go ahead,
>>if not get lost! :-)
>>
>>
>Krzysztof forgot to mention, that if you are organized fellow-countryman
>(ziomek), then you are entitled to two, not only one Polack joke per day.
>Have fun Ted and go ahead, make my day everyday.
>
I'm a first generation Canadian, parents born in Poland and my
original name is Tadeusz Gruszczyk, changed for obvious convenience.
Does that give me 2 per day?

In any case - Q. What do you do when a Polack has an epileptic fit in
the bathtub?
 
 A. Throw in the laundry.

 This illustrates that most such jokes have nothing whatever to do
 with ethnicity.
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Xref: sparky rec.humor:26528 soc.culture.polish:2018
From: syspb@smartstar.com (Paul)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.polish
Subject: Re: Polack joke
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:03:07 GMT
Organization: none

I know some Engineers that use HP calculators.  They way you enter the
numbers is different than most other calculators.  They call it
RPN for Reversed Polish Notation.

Oh, yeah...

This polish airliner is comming in for a landing.  The pilot and copilot
land the plane and slam on the brakes.  They screech to a halt in 50 ft.
The copilot turns to the pilot and says "Man, that's the shortest runway
I've ever seen."  The pilot says "Yeah, but look how wide it is!"
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: FORUM Mailing List
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:52:21 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug10.221622.3353@desire.wright.edu> psantucci@desire.wright.edu writes:
|
|And me, as well.
|

This is not a me too article.  In fact, this is a request that I not be added
to the mailing list.  The way I finger it, this here newsgroup that I'm reading
is called rec.humor.  That being the case one would expect to find humor
in this group.  So far everyone that has asked to be added to the list has
just posted something like "add me to the list" and "me too".  If this is
their idea of humor that mailing list is going to be one borfucking 
forum.  Might as well just subscribe to misc.test.  
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From: kml@cellar.org (Lazlo Hoover Toth)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Funny Names
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:25:39 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

nealhd@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:

> 
> On a recent thread, people have posted "Funny Names" of people and 
> bands. How about Professional Wrestlers and Strippers. An example 
> of each: Dirty Rhodes and Pussy Galore (a la James Bond femme 
> fatale).
> 

Uh, 'scuse me, but that's Dusty Rhodes you be thinkin' of.  


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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: tom@fokus.gmd.de (Tom Pfeifer)
Subject: Re: please help me name my machine
Organization: GMD-FOKUS, Hardenbergplatz 2, 1000 Berlin 12, Germany
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:50:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.105659.8776@newstand.syr.edu>, rsadve@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Adve) writes:
|> >>We get to name our machines at work here, and I am 
|> >>in desperate need of a new machine name in a hurry!  
|> >>Can you help me?  
|> >>...
|> >>just needs to be somewhat clean, you know, suitable 
|> >>for the workplace.
|> >>
|> >toaster, blender, canopener, eggbeater, macintosh
|> >

coffee_maker

Tom
From: david@c-cat.UUCP (dave)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: WANTED-Answering Machine Messages
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:53:47 GMT
Organization: Intergalactic Rest Area For Weary Travellers

> > |> 
> > |> A few months ago somebody posted a huge list of messages for
> > |> an answering machine. I'm planning to get mine and I would
> > |> like to have some ideas to create a good and bizarre message.
> > |> 

just post the list save bandwidth, I want it too !


                                                       -David

China Cat System     
(301)604-5976 8N1
david@sandr.com 
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: jgelhaus@src.honeywell.com (Jennifer Gelhaus)
Subject: Re: Woody and Mia
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:43:49 GMT


In article <16849B131.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> SDENARO@vm.poly.edu writes:
>In article <Bt9E6B.IL4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
>mcwg9235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marsha Cook Woodbury) writes:
> 
>>
>>I am waiting.  The subject is ripe with possibilities.
>>Where are the jokes?
>>--
>Movies that could me made be Woody..
> 
>Raiseing Cain, Then sleeping with her.
>Unlawful Entry II
>Hanna and her Daughters
>Single adopted Asian female
>...
> 
>Ive been dateless before, but I never thought of adoption.
 
Another movie idea (heard on KQRS in MN):
	"Honey I screwed the kids"



Jen
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Drunk driving in movies
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:58:46 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

To the person asking about drunk driving in movies. I e-mailed this
but it bounced.


If you want to see a pretty disgusting "before" scene try the Matt Helms
movies starring Dean Martin. I'm pretty sure it was "The  Ambusher". He drives
around drinking from a flask after obviously having had too much while battling 
an army of females. Come to think of it that doesn't really narrow it down does 
it.
 A movie called 'Liscence to Drive' shows a bunch of teens having a great 
time driving around drunk. This one even got the medias attention so you've 
probably heard about it.


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From: ria@dash.udev.cdc.com (Richard Askew)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: another marine joke
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:12:29 GMT
Organization: Control Data Systems Inc., London, UK.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

psbapat@mtu.edu (BAPAT) writes:
: In article <46451@shamash.cdc.com>, ria@dash.udev.cdc.com (Richard Askew) writes:
: > And another one:-
: > 
: > Two marines, ship-wrecked on a desert island, take up with a native girl.
: > After 3-weeks she is *So-disgusted* with what she's doing, 
: > - she commits suicide!
: > After 3-weeks they are *So-disgusted* with they are doing,
: > - they bury her!
: > After 3-weeks they are *So-disgusted* with they are doing,
: > - they dig her back up!
: > 
: 
: Another guy is marooned on an island with six beautiful females.
: Great, he says - one for each day. Sunday is the day of rest.
: 
: After two/three weeks he feels tired, unable to keep up the pace.
: He hopes - wish there was someone else to keep the girls busy.
: 
: Next day, his wish comes true. There is a shipwreck and another 
: man swims ashore. New man, on seeing another guy on the island
: goes up and gives him a big hug out of sheer joy and relief.
: 
: First man, dejectedly says - there goes my sunday !!!!
: 
YUP! -  I thought about telling that one, but I wasn't  sure if I could
        get the right inflexion in the last two lines....

..on seeing another strapping marine floating by on a raft, 
swims out to him, jumps up and throws his arms around him saying:
- "Buddy! Am I glad to see you!" 
To which the he replies:
- "Oh my! There goes my Sunday!"

Now you know why I didn't tell it !
--

Richard 
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: goss@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Timothy D. Goss)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons revisited...
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:27:37 GMT

How about

	IRAQI SURRENDER
	American Peace Keeping Force
	
Xref: sparky rec.humor:26258 alt.politics.clinton:2096 talk.politics.guns:19378
From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Keywords: joke, very funny, haha, etc.
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:26:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug17.181150.4911@athena.mit.edu> sybok@athena.mit.edu (The Rifleman) writes:
>In article <sc0LPB2w164w@opus.mcds.com> speers@opus.mcds.com (Daniel E. Speers) writes:
>>ski@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew John Urbanski) writes:
>>  Ok, if you want to get down to it, what kills people are flame
>>wars - ah, no - it's the ripping open of flesh causing drastic
>>bleeding and a shock to the system.  Bullets help make this process
>>move along quicker esp when fired from a gun - and even more 
>>efficient when fired from a semi-automatic hunting rifle.
>>
>>------------
>>
>>   So, does the NRA really believe that people who go squirel
>>hunting need to use a rifle that'll fire so many bullets in
>>half a second to have removed every bit of meat from the bones
>>of the intended prey???
>>
>>   I support the right to bear arms, but what about arming bears?
>>
>>   Where do we draw the line?  Rocket Launchers to hunt dear?
>
>Hunting, hunting, hunting.  You keep talking about arms in relation
>to hunting.  THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS NOT ABOUT HUNTING!!!  The colonials
>weren't hunting when they rose up against their oppressor to gain
>freedom.
>

Yeah, the hunting thing is simply a smokescreen used by the gun banners:
Here is their plan.

Convince the present generation that hunting is the issue. Let a whold
generation grow up thinking it is so. Meanwhile legislate out of legality
possession of non-hunting weapons (everything but shotguns of "modest"
capacity and rifles of "modest capacity"). This means getting rid of 
handguns and "assault rifles" and shotguns with magazine capacity of
greater than three rounds and of course machineguns.

Next generation point out that the second amendment doesn't protect
hunting: then do away with the rest.

third generation: declare the current regime: "President for Life" etc.

I can't wait...........

If we let this happen we are all really stupid.......

-- 
Richard Crisp         Cupertino, Ca.         crisp@netcom.com
(415) 903-3832 wk  "The Demos have to go!"   (408) 253 4541 fax

"The first thing you have to do is disarm the people. A disarmed
public can't fight back" -Adolf Hitler

It is interesting that the so called enlightened Democrats
seem to espouse the same tactics of Hitler: disarm the
public, create a national police force, and enlist the aid of  
the media propaganda machine to make all believe that the country
must take drastic measures to correct the so called sins of the
prior regime. Those that follow will be as culpable as the 
brownshirts and Hitler Youth.

Very Dangerous Times Indeed!
From: ben@bailey.UUCP (Ben Bailey)
Subject: Re: Confuscious says.......
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:38:23 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ben Bailey's Home..Tampa Fl.

He also says:

Man who cut fart in church have to sit in own pew.

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813-677-5021                  thing the main thing.  Mainly.
From: tking@eng.auburn.edu (Thomas L. King)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Writing Checklist
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:57:22 GMT
Organization: Auburn University Engineering


                         WRITING CHECKLIST

1.  Don't use no double negatives.

2.  About them sentence fragments.

3.  Try to not ever split infinitives.

4.  Verbs has to agree with their antecedents.

5.  Between you and I, case is important.

6.  Correct spelling is essentail.

7.  When dangling, watch your participles.

8.  Use your apostrophe's correctly.

9.  Avoid cliches like the plague.

10. Don't use commas, that aren't neccessary.

11. Proofread you writing.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: kasvand@ccrs.emr.ca (Tony Kasvand)
Subject: Re: "Free" Trade
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:57:22 GMT

      I thought free trade was..."You do me, and i'll do you."

   Maybe this should be in rec.pickup-lines.canadian-style


-- 
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Ottawa, Canada     | to discover... How can Canadians party all night and   
kasvand@ccrs.emr.ca| still function in the morning! "    
                                  - The Royal Canadian Air Farce
From: rybicki@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Polack joke ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:10:15 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

In article <1992Aug13.172634.202372@uctvax.uct.ac.za>, lwsand03@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
> Overheard at the Barcelona Olympics...
> 
> 
>  Q- Are you a pole-vaulter?
>  
>             A- No I'm a German, but how did you know my first name?
> 

Almost politically correct - OK, you can keep this one... 
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Need jokes for a 40th birthday party
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:42:06 GMT
 <1992Aug11.154900.20583@dickens.com> <1992Aug12.215900.5344@tfs.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Electronic Data Systems, Unigraphics Division, Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: royce

In article <1992Aug12.215900.5344@tfs.com>, jorge@tfs.com (I shall return) writes:
> Here is one for the 40 year old celebrant:
> 
> 	Sex at 40 is like the weather.  Fair with a slight chance of
> 					participation.
-- 

	Sex with the 40 year old ceebrant was an Olympic event!






	Once every 4 years with the expectation of gold as the outcome.



P.S. Thanks for the joke.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|  I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and    |
| causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations  |
| have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow,  |
| and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign  |
| by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is       |
| aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.               |
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|              --- Abraham Lincoln                                       |
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
From: re0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Radu Eugen Edelstein)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: The boy stood on the burning deck...
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:39:35 GMT
Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Aug14.144404.17584@dickens.com>, jd@dickens.com (Joe Dudar) writ
es:
> >     The boy stood on the burning deck,
> >     His pocket full of crackers.
> >     One fell down his trouser leg,
> >     And blew of both his sandshoes.
>
> Mind explaining to a Yank what's s'posed to rhyme with crackers?

It seems he's saying: "What the heck,
Let's post this for the hackers.
And even if they'll come and beg,
I won't be giving any clues."
From: jcbbalt@rocky8.rockefeller.edu (JCB Editor)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: "dumb" men jokes ??
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:19:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: rockyd.1992Aug19.111925.22610
Reply-To: carson@rockvax.bitnet
Organization: Rockefeller Univ.,N.Y.C 10021

In article <22605@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> abao@sunwise.hac.com writes:
>Recently someone gave me some jokes like the follwing,
>I am wondering if anyone has a joke list of this sort of things?
>
>
>	Why are all dumb blonde jokes one liners?
>	So men can understand them.
>
>  Please send me email, I am not a frequent reader of this group.
>  thanks in advance!
>
Please, please, send that list to me, too!
carson
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: 11srust@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Scott A. Rust)
Subject: Re: Happy trails to me...
Summary: Get real and get outtahere
Reply-To: Nobody
Organization: Gallaudet University English Dept
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:57:39 GMT

In article <92226.095417MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
> 
> 
> 
> Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
> Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 1992 09:48:33 EDT
> From: <MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
> Message-ID: <92226.094833MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
> Newsgroups: alt.fan.monty-python
> Subject:    Happy trails to me...
> 
> Hey guys! Listen. I'm leaving for vacation for two weeks. I haven't convinced
> the college I'm working at to come with me, so I guess I'll be net-less
> (as opposed to wit-less, my usual state). I'm not actually leaving now, but
> I will be sometime today, and I don't think I'll get another post off.
> So have a great two weeks, and e-mail me for my address if you live in
> the New York area, and want an easy target to rob a house. The code for
> my alarm is under the door mat, and the key is on the ledge next to the
> flower pot.
> 
> -- Sal "To each his own, and to all a good night." Desiano
> 
> You can find me at your neighborhood grocery store in
>   the breakfast foods aisle, or by sending bits, bytes and
>     burps to: MDSQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, or by yodeling words, songs
>       and, yes, burps to Work:1(718)260-3349 or School:1(212)339-????
>         or Home:1(718)???-????, with a machine on the first two.
> 
>             The Saviour of Breakfast, Away! (for vacation)
-- 

	Wait a minute! Wait _just_ a minute! Do you, the alleged 
breakfast god, think that _we_ give a damn about your leaving on
vacation???????? Are you just trying to rub this in our noses or something? And
you must be some wimpy god to not be able to get your university to go on
vacation with you, I mean! Next thing you know, you'll post to tell us about
where you're going (Hawaii, Bermuda, etc) and "damn, I wish I could still be on
the net!" GET A LIFE, for heaven's sake! Don't you know that by getting off the
net for 2 weeks, you might actually still have hope for a normal life?? HAven't
you realized yet that the net is for students who are afraid of women or
married people who have been married too long??

		Geez!

		;-)
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	BTW, what is your address.........
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: FORUM Mailing List
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:38:21 GMT
 <1992Aug11.195951.8199@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Organization: The Ohio State University

in Message-ID: <1992Aug11.195951.8199@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
operator@vax.oxford.ac.uk asks:
>
>
> Just a thought but in England 'FORUM' is the
> name of a pornographic publication......
>
> hmmmmmm  :-)
>
>           ************************************************
>           * Mark at Oxford University Computing Services *
>           * Email - OPS@UK.AC.OX.VAX  anytime....        *
>           ************************************************


	I thought the FORUM was a psuedo-psycological feel-good
successor to EST started by Werner Erhard.  Someone else out
there other than me must know idiots sucked into this cult and
have some good humor about it.

(not everyone can use two ps. words hyphenated together in a
sentence, thank God)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.guns
From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
Subject: Re: Gun control (was Re: democratic platform)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 04:45:17 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: joke, very funny, haha, etc. 

In article <sc0LPB2w164w@opus.mcds.com> speers@opus.mcds.com (Daniel E. Speers) writes:
>ski@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew John Urbanski) writes:
>
>> Guns don't kill people, bullets do.  People with gun just do it
>> more efficiently!  :-)
>
>  Ok, if you want to get down to it, what kills people are flame
>wars - ah, no - it's the ripping open of flesh causing drastic
>bleeding and a shock to the system.  Bullets help make this process
>move along quicker esp when fired from a gun - and even more 
>efficient when fired from a semi-automatic hunting rifle.
>
>------------
>
>   So, does the NRA really believe that people who go squirel
>hunting need to use a rifle that'll fire so many bullets in
>half a second to have removed every bit of meat from the bones
>of the intended prey???
>
>   I support the right to bear arms, but what about arming bears?
>
>   Where do we draw the line?  Rocket Launchers to hunt dear?
>

Again the issue of hunting is moot in the discussion of 2nd Amendment rights.
It is a smokescreen tossed up by the gun banners to sidestep the real issue,
the reason that the 2nd Amendment was put in place. The people need to be armed
to defend the sanctity of the country from insurrection, rebellion, invasion,
and to simply protect themselves and their property. Hunting is irrelevant.

I personally believe that if we disarm America, some day a few generations
down the road (or sooner if Socialists like Feinstein get elected Senator from
Califruitty) someone will declare themselves "President For Life". If we 
ever find ourselves in that situation and are unarmed, we are in deep trouble.
That is the long and short of it.

-- 
Richard Crisp         Cupertino, Ca.         crisp@netcom.com
(415) 903-3832 wk  "The Demos have to go!"   (408) 253 4541 fax

"The first thing you have to do is disarm the people. A disarmed
public can't fight back" -Adolf Hitler

It is interesting that the so called enlightened Democrats
seem to espouse the same tactics of Hitler: disarm the
public, create a national police force, and enlist the aid of  
the media propaganda machine to make all believe that the country
must take drastic measures to correct the so called sins of the
prior regime. Those that follow will be as culpable as the 
brownshirts and Hitler Youth.

Very Dangerous Times Indeed!