I personally am very offended by this joke. My father-in-law is a potato farmer in Arizona, and your joke made no attempt to value and/or appreciate that potatoes can come from places OTHER than Idaho, and it perpetuates stereotypes about potatoes in general.
>From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET> >Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Racially tested off color joke(or IS it?) >Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:34:23 -0600 > >Two potatoes standing on the street corner. Which one is the prostitute? > > > >Answer? >< >< ><The one with I DA HO stamped on the back... >Joke tested on 10 white and 10 black co workers. Equal decibel sounds from >laughter on average from both groups. Did not test for male/ female volume >levels. Next test will be to test 10 people from the state of Idaho to see >if they are offended. Then it's off to the National Potato Board. Bottom >line? > >It going to get pretty expensive to tell a joke on this list. Maybe Senor >Pollard could do my Idaho testing sample. Wait a minute, he's not Mescan, >I >mean Hispanic. Just to show you all us rednecks can laugh at ourselves, >Here's my ripoff of a Jeff Foxworthy delivery. > > You might be a redneck if you think Ned Beatty deserved an Oscar for his >performance in the movie Deliverance. > > Tested this on 10 white co- workers that all laughed(they all had >turtlenecks on so I could't tell which was which). All 10 black co-workers >asked, "Who the hell is Ned Beatty"? Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds haven't >responed to my emails yet, but the toothless bald kid that played the banjo >liked the joke. He made his millions renting rafts on the river after the >movie ran in the theaters. Funny, that movie's almost 30 years old now. > > His most prized possession is the prop of the hand sticking out of the >lake >at the end of the movie. Gives a new perspective on the "talk to the hand" >rap. > >Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel
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