From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 21:22:47 MDT
Hal writes
> That's good, a generic ethnic joke. Here's another:
>
> Q: How many ethnics does it take to do X?
> A: That's not funny!
Invalid generalization. Error.
The original form of the joke was "How many feminists
does it take to change a light bulb", "That's not
funny!".
The joke worked because from the perspective of mainstream
society, the feminists seemed to be deadly serious and rather
over-passionate about some things (I guess), and that maybe
they just never could laugh at themselves (I suppose).
When a really good joke comes along about Extropians, it
will be effective and funny because it will expose and hold
up to ridicule an idiosyncrasy we have. Hopefully we'll
be able to laugh about it too.
Lee
P.S. Disclaimer. The "Invalid" line above was meant
to be taken as a complete joke. :)
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