No? Well, youre unlikely to anytime soon. The British government, fresh from recent proscriptions on religious and racial hatred, is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalize homophobic jokes.
Ive been trying to recall the last time I heard a homophobic joke in a public forum. You have to go back a ways. At Vegas, Dean Martin used to have a bit of business where hed refill his tumbler and ask Frank, How do you make a fruit cordial? And Sinatra would go, I dunno. How do you make a fruit cordial? And Dino would say, Be nice to him.
But these days, no matter how cordial you are, its never enough...
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Just for grins and, proving, once again, that Yeats has left the planet (...and that not all Irish are 'poets'), I submit the following: