Re: Sick puppy

[Joe Pollock <pollockj @ elwha . evergreen . edu>]

On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Joerg Maass wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> this discussion is as silly as Sick Puppy´s posts, at least in my opinion.
> OK, he´s posting nonsense sometimes, but sheesh!, life´s so staked out and
> logical sometimes, why don´t we sit back and relax a little? There are
> enough topics to discuss, enough religious wars to fight, enough real dumb
> asses to fight with.
> 
> Personally, I always liked Sick Puppy´s strange humour and more than that,
> the humour of his "vice".
> 
> >Life was more simple.  Once we live on Hopeless Indian Reservation in
> >Arizona. My mother name me Frog Hit By Lightening. When I go school off
> >reservation white kids call me Flash or Hit By Truck. Not like those name.
> >Sick Puppy very clever. Say look in phone book for new name. Now I have
> >good name Brian Smith. Sick Puppy strong. Keep name mother gave him.
> 
> Don´t you find this funny? I think it´s VERY funny. Let´s take of our
> professional armour and enjoy the whole thing!
> 

Quite frankly, no, I don't find it particularly funny.  Racist and 
demeaning to native culture comes immediately to mind.  And I don't think 
it was up to Sick Puppy's previous standards of humor.

 I don't intend this to be a personal rebuke to Joerg, however, but just
wish to make the statement that humor based on racial or ethnic
stereotyping really doesn't belong on a professional discussion list. 

Techno-culture, of course, is fair game. :-)

Joe Pollock
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505