funnyr@looking.on.ca (Funny Guy) (02/14/91)
I'm getting, and still getting, tons of Iraq jokes. Many of you are sending these to the general submission address (funny) instead of the topical submission address (topical). Please note that if I get busy, I can take weeks to get to the general queue, but I try to deal with the topical queue more quickly. That said, don't rush to the topical queue if your joke truly doesn't depend on this week's events. If it will still be funny a month down the road (and yes, the war is likely to still be going on then) you can send it to the usual address. If it's original, and non-topical, send to original@looking.on.ca. All addresses are at site looking.on.ca. Here is a list of jokes not to send me, since they've all been sent a dozen times: "Useful phrases to know in Arab lands" (contains garbled Persian phrases with translations like "thank you for showing me your marvelous gun. Found in RHF jokebook Volume 1) "Saddam/Desert Shield Condom -- for (small) pricks that don't pull out on time." Similar jokes about Saddam not pulling out and relating it to sex, or Kuwaitis Interruptus, etc. Jokes about Iraqis having sex with camels and sheep, including Iraqi Driver's Ed/Sex Ed, "Ships of the desert," "Iraqi with two sheep," etc. Jokes noting that SCUD sounds like the abbreviation for Budweiser. Jokes comparing the Patriot Missile to the New England Patriots football team, or noting that sports reporter Lisa Olsen has seen more Patriot missiles than Saddam, or about interceptions, etc. Iraq war drinking game. (I posted that just 2 weeks ago.) Jokes noting that Saddam sounds like "Sodom." Jokes asking what Baghdad and Hiroshima have in common. IBM Mouse Ball memo. (Not an Iraq joke, but people keep sending it to me.) (RHF Jokebook Volume II) Jokes stating that some ethnic group has sent troops to the Gulf and Mexico is unsure about what to do with them. The great joke about using women with PMS in the marines -- I posted it three weeks ago. Don't any of you actually *read* this group before you post to it? :-) Saddam holding 1000 lawyers and threatening to release 1 a week until the west surrenders. Iraqi jokes that are just recycled versions of ethnic jokes that everybody has already heard. Thanks. I am releasing the best of the war jokes as they come, and putting the medium ones into Iraq digests. I have rated some of the above as medium jokes (or even rejected them) but may temper my opinion due to the fact that so many people want to send them in.