Why is it in poor taste? It's satire. If it insults anybody, it insults people from Oklahoma, who are generally regarded as rednecks, the last politically correct people to lampoon (and judging from previous threads, a lot of Southerns are starting to rise up against that).
The Oklahoma City bombing was initially suspected of being Arab terrorists. Did you read the entire column this came from. The whole tenor is along these lines. Obviously, a lot of people enjoy this type of humor. It's not to my taste, but it's hardly as offensive as a lot of stuff that passes as "entertainment" these days. H. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:06 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Dark Humour Why would you choose to post something like this? Personally, I think it's in poor taste. Respectfully, Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Falloon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: Dark Humour > Q. Might there not be real long term problems if, in our lust for revenge, > we rush to judgment? > > A. Without doubt. Don't forget Oklahoma City. Foreign terrorists were > suspected because bystanders reported two Middle Eastern-looking guys > running from the scene. Well, come on, wasn't everybody running from the > scene? Besides, what does Middle Eastern-looking mean in Oklahoma City? > "They had curly hair, and they weren't wearing no baseball caps at all, and > I'll tell you something mister, they had a tan on both of their arms. It was > eerie." > > Sourced from workingforchange.com > http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11959 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
