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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