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To: AnAmericanMother

This has to do with the First Lady of the US who is married to a man who won election at least partly because of his morality telling these jokes. That's what makes them inappropriate.


104 posted on 05/02/2005 6:53:26 AM PDT by twigs
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To: twigs
Sorry, these jokes just aren't all that bad, and if you ever heard a comedian like Skelton live back in the 50s or 60s, you would know that. If all you've ever seen are re-runs, well, television was 100 percent G-rated back in those days and not even mildly "blue" humor was allowed.

Ranch and farm humor is a little more earthy than your average uptight suburban moralist expects -- but that is normal for folks who deal with the daily realities of sanitation and reproduction. My great-grandmother, who was every inch a Southern lady, grew up on a rural plantation, and even SHE knew the "milk a bull" joke. And told it in my presence at least once (she died when I was 8.)

Mrs. Bush didn't use any bad language, and unless a person already knew the "facts of life" (e.g. the poor 4 year old child of liberals) the joke would go right over his head. That is the essence of "blue" humor - it isn't naughty unless you already know the score, so it goes right over the kids' heads. If you already know the score, you shouldn't be offended. And that sort of humor has always been permissible even for Southern ladies.

127 posted on 05/02/2005 7:01:51 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: twigs

Her jokes weren't immoral. She's not immoral. Lynn Cheney is not immoral.


132 posted on 05/02/2005 7:03:17 AM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: twigs

You really need to get over yourself. I grew up in the South with a Southern Baptist mother, Southern Baptist grandmothers ... etc. I could easily hear each one of them tell a joke like that "in polite company." Are you wanting the First Lady to continue in that mold that the Democrats were trying to put her in during the election? Remember Terezzzaaa's comments about Laura Bush not ever having a "real job"?


135 posted on 05/02/2005 7:04:50 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: twigs

wonder if you'd be screaming so loud if it were Bill and Billary!


283 posted on 05/02/2005 8:09:05 AM PDT by pistolpackinannie
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