T,
It's quite possible that the person who sent the
joke wasn't even thinking about political
paranoia. Maybe the joke just didn't fit their
general comfort level for public exposure?
I've been politically concerned about writing
certain things to people abroad, if I planned to
visit those countries (assuming that the mail
might be read over there), but I doubt I'd be
concerned that the electro-snoops are looking for
risqué jokes...
At 11:56 PM -0500 1/3/06, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
Ever since we (US) bombed the s... out of
Baghdad deleting all my childhood fancy romances
(1001 of them), I had a gut feeling that the
World I Used to Know (commie) and the World I
Transplanted to (US, supposedly democratic) lost
their demarcation lines and became one... The
last six months -- spying scandal piled on
spying scandal -- had me sneering; high time
Americans faced reality, and realised they were
as minutely scrutinised by the powers that be,
as anyone else, anyplace else... :)
But I never had a firm confirmation of my gut feelling...
Today, I got a joke; it's funny... Also, it
comes from a US source... Also, it comes with
the same caveat that jokes in commie Poland used
to have:
I don't want even my initials tied to this one,
which makes it heart-breaking, rather than funny...
In my 33 yrs in US, I have *never before*, *not
once* heard anyone worried about having an
"off-colour" (politically or otherwise) joke
attributed to them... I was told --when I
debated my citizenship -- that one could express
oneself freely in US, without repercussions,
unlike in Poland of the same period.
Never believe what you're told... :)
Fear had been commonplace in Poland of my
childhood and teens, but my US environment
always pooh-poohed such fears as being baseless;
"US has much higher ethical standards than your
commie terrorist monolithical rulers" I was
told... "You are free to express yourself" I was
told...
My French is non-existant, but I know there's a
timeless phrase: "the more things change, the
more they stay the same"; the commie Poland and
the democratic US have reached a common ground.
*So* common in fact, there's no dividing line
anymore...
From: Source Zero
First, some of the items on this link are not
polite, but if you can skip those, then take a
look at some of the captions added to these
airline safety signs. Some are pretty funny.
http://www.airtoons.com/
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