On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:15:59PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Warren" == Warren Stramiello <warren@stramiello.net> writes: > > Warren> Is there any dissent that the joke was patently and obviously racist, > Warren> btw? > > Umm, actually, I am puzzled by why it was deemed offensive. > (Is being characterized as belonging to an ethnic group or race > patently offensive?) I suppose offense lies in the eyes of the > offensee, so random opinions are largely irrelevant. > > manoj > -- > And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where > the Lowells talk only to Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God. As a non-Bostonian, I'm offended by the inside jokes in your .signature. And if I were Bostonian, I'm sure I could manage to be offended by its actual meaning. :) Ooh, ooh, getting offended gratuitously is fun. I should do it more often. -- G. Branden Robinson | Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too branden@debian.org | difficult for the computer http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | scientist.
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