This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- "Turcotte, Dianne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is from: "Turcotte, Dianne" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm all for being PC, but I did notice that there > was no direct reference to > the Amish in that version of the joke. That's right. I haven't seen the version which refers specifically to the Amish. This particular version could have referred to any number of people who regularly travel by horse and buggy. In certain parts of the country that was a lot of us at one time. This particular version of the joke is not dated either, so to those of us who regularly read publications which pull their articles and humor from a past time this could have referred to a past time. I for one did not take it as a slur on the Amish - didn't even really get a picture of an Amish woman driving the buggy. It could have been any one of us with a "no brakes" stud hitched up! Seems a rather ingenious solution to a very annoying problem! I sure knew some fellows in the town where I grew up who would have used that solution, had they thought of it! Mary > ===== Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
