Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bowdler" intelligent enough to attend a performance of Hamlet should realize that "Polack" is simply the Polish word for "Pole" and not the ethnic slur the Polack joke craze has made...
...from another era? None other than Lenore Romney, wife of George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She quickly made it clear that she was very much a part of the scene. She told the women in the audience to get hip to politics. She cracked an antisexist joke: "After God created Adam, he looked him over and said: 'I think with my second chance I can do better.' " She concluded with a rousing "Right...
...message of the joke would be lost in some cultures; in India, for instance, Kali-an incarnation of the Hindu mother goddess-is both female and black. But it bites enough in Western civilization, where Judaeo-Christian theology has intermittently taught white superiority over black and consistently taught male superiority over female. Color prejudice in theology has been largely expunged. Gender prejudice remains. God is the Father. Jesus Christ is the Son. Even the Holy Spirit, in the New Testament, is "he." And women? Women are the daughters of Eve, the original temptress...
...local joke among Denver cattlemen that the steer should have been named after a rival chain's hamburger, the Whopper. It seems that Big Mac may actually be a white Charolais steer named Jeep. It also appears that he was dyed black for the show, for which the Charolais breed is not eligible, and entered as an Angus. A previous owner of the animal, which was reported to have died last November of hardware sickness (from eating metal, like barbed wire), spotted Big Mac at the show and declared him "the spitting image of Jeep, except that...
...routines. "He sneaked up behind me and said, 'Say, Mama, look at that dress in the window . . .' " The listener chuckles at the transparent rationalization. Everybody knows that there isn't any real devil. The devil is just a myth, a relic of folklore, grist for a joke...