Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!faustus From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: My fellow Americans, Message-ID: <1669@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:55:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.1669 Posted: Mon Aug 20 01:55:51 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 03:16:25 EDT References: <57@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 19 Sure, the statement WAS a joke, but that's not the point. The point is that Reagan has the sort of outlook on things that leads him to make jokes like this. I don't think it is a very funny joke, and I think that most rational people wouldn't say something like that, no matter how humorously thay mean it to be taken. It's like some of the really disgusting jokes you sometimes see in net.jokes, like "What's the difference between a Jew and a pizza? The pizza doesn't scream when you put it into the oven." When I see jokes like this, I don't get quite as upset, because I know that the person who thinks it's funny is probably some psychotic who gets his kicks from torturing puppies. Now, if I knew that he was in fact a famous doctor or statesman or something like that, I would be upset. It's like that with Reagan and his "joke". Just because "he wasn't really serious, just kidding around a bit" doesn't make it any less significant. Wayne