Posted on 12/16/2014 1:41:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’ve been trying to come up with a list of nationalities or ethnic groups—even subgroups—about whom it is still safe to make a joke publicly, since political correctness is shrinking the domain down to the vanishing point. Before long you won’t be able to make jokes about “little green men” from Mars, for fear of offending illegal aliens “undocumented” immigrants. I’m not even sure you can joke about white people any more, like Martin Mull and Allen Rucker did 20 years ago in A History of White People in America. Not even Sony would risk publishing this right now.
So here’s my list of groups or subgroups you can still safely make public jokes about:
1. Jewish mothers.
2. That’s it. (And Scott will have to tell me if Item #1 is in fact correct. But to this point I haven’t heard the ADL react the way FAIR reacts to anything satirical about Islam.)
Well yes, maybe you can make jokes and the French and Germans and the British, but fashionable opinion holds it against you.
The great John Cleese appeared on Bill Maher’s show last weekend, and offered an intelligent discussion of why you can’t joke about Mexicans or Muslims, and why it’s condescending. Plus this: “If you make jokes about people who are going to kill you, there is a sort of tendency to hold back a little.” (About four minutes long.)
Because we don't give a rat's ass.
Damn right!
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He got me back a few weeks later on the elevator, calling me that as the door closed. The reaction from the others on the elevator was priceless.
Yeah.....
Also the one about the first Polish Telephone Co worker.
Alexander Graham Kawolski -
They told him to go out and measure the Devices that held the wires above ground.
He comes back the first day and has 2 measurements
2 the next etc..
Boss calls him in and says SKI, you are only doing 2 a day, people normally get 30 or 40.
Well Boss, I dig them up, measure them and put them back in the ground. When they are laying down I just measure to where the dirt was.
WHY go through all that, just wanted to measure them for continuity, so they all were the same..
I know but you didn’t tell me if you wanted to know how tall they were or how long, so I did it both ways.
No one ever really meant Polish people are stupid. I wonder how they got started anyway.
Being blonde, I am used to dumb jokes.
A good start....
How many Pollocks does it take to change a lightbulb?
5 - one to hold the bulb and 4 to turn the ladder.
Of course you can change that to blondes and it would get the same laugh.
Sleeping with the fish’s.
Who’s next! Where’s that list of GOPe traitors!!
I take it back. There are some funny Scots jokes. lol
How many GOPe members of congress does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None.
They are too cowardly and corrupt to turn it in the right direction.
I have lived before this crap, and i SHALL makes jokes of whomever I please!
A survey taker is questioning a man at the man’s front door:
Surveyor: First name?
Man: Adam.
Surveyor: Wife’s first name?
Man: Eve.
Hearing this, the surveyor chuckles at the coincidence and jokingly asks: You wouldn’t happen to have an evil serpent living with you?
The man yells into the house: Eve honey, the man wants to talk to your mom.
LOL
LOL!
Hahaha Great joke.
“What ever happened to pollock jokes?”
I like those flounder jokes myself.
Oh, the irony...
That was great!
True, true
Q:What’s the definition of mixed emotions?
A:Watching your ex-wife and her lawyer drive off a cliff,in your brand new car.
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