From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Feminist Jokes
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:20:10 GMT

In article <XKRSBGPT@cc.swarthmore.edu> auer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David S. Auer) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.043610.1545@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:

>RP>Does this actually mean -anything-? Does this "power balance" argument mean
>RP>anything, anything at all?
>
>Yes, there are more men in positions of control over the lives of other people.

My wife and my mother disagree with you.

>RP>Please do. Tell me what this means. If it means that reality does
>RP>not conform to your expectations, I got news for ya, it never will. And
>RP>more news, it ain't the way I'd prefer it either.
>
>Not my expectations.  My notions of justice.

Oh darn, here I am posting on what I THOUGHT was rec.humor, and it turns out
to my rec.my.notions.of.justice. Guess I just can't read a subject line.

>RP>Well, if you are a male, use some of that "power imbalance" to fix the 
>RP>problem and stop whining about it. Apologies if I incorrectly assumed
>RP>that David is a male name.
>
>I would be happy to.  I am not in a position of power though.

Reading lessons might help. Start at the subject line.

>RP>There are those who see that not all feminist claims are valid (do you feel
>RP>that they are automatically valid), and that many feminist solutions are
>RP>worse than the problems that they are to solve.
>
>Point taken.  I will try from now on try to think with my brain and eyes before
>posting lame stuff up on the board.

Oh please do! 

Obhumor: (garnered from fortune programs and the board)
The opinions expressed here are purely my own, and not necessarily those of 
anyone in their right mind.  

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
                -- R. Clopton
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your
editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
                -- Mark Twain

A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

God did not create the world in 7 days; he screwed around for 6 days
and then pulled an all-nighter.

When in doubt, use brute force.
                -- Ken Thompson

We must remember the First Amendment which protects any shrill jackass
no matter how self-seeking.
                -- F. G. Withington

A day without sunshine is like night.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

They also surf who only stand on waves.

Proof techniques #2: Proof by Oddity.
        SAMPLE: To prove that horses have an infinite number of legs.
(1) Horses have an even number of legs.
(2) They have two legs in back and fore legs in front.
(3) This makes a total of six legs, which certainly is an odd number of
    legs for a horse.
(4) But the only number that is both odd and even is infinity.
(5) Therefore, horses must have an infinite number of legs.
Topics is be covered in future issues include proof by:
        Intimidation
        Gesticulation (handwaving)
        "Try it; it works"
        Constipation (I was just sitting there and ...)
        Blatant assertion
        Changing all the 2's to n's
        Mutual consent
        Lack of a counterexample, and
        "It stands to reason"

Mayor Vincent J. `Buddy' Cianci on the ACLU's suit to have a city
nativity scene removed:
        "They're just jealous because they don't have three wise men
        and a virgin in the whole organization."

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture.  Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described
with pictures.

"All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British
manufacture"

A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
		-- Mark Twain

He's the kind of guy, that, well, if you were ever in a jam he'd be
there ... with two slices of bread and some chunky peanut butter.

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone
has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."
                --English Professor, Ohio University


Mike
-- 
Disclaimer - I'm only doing what the little voices tell me to do.