"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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> Steve Pope wrote:
>
>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>>
>>>It didn't have to be a Marine, but it pretty much had to be a man.
>>>Likewise, it had to be a dog or the punchline wouldn't work. There are
>>>far
>>>more crude jokes than that, that target minority groups, etc.
>>
>> I have to deviate into a time-worn argument, but animals cannot
>> fight back, or even express in words their disgust about anti-animal
>> humor. That makes it all the more important not to joke
>> about trashing them.
>
> Please report back with a count of how many dogs have been offended by the
> telling of that joke.

That's just why the joke isn't funny. A guy kills a little dog because he's
****ed at it's owner? What if instead of throwing it from the train he
bludgeoned it to death with a club. Would that be more or less funny? What
if instead of a dog it was a baby? Would that be funny? How many infants
would be offended by that joke?

Paul