I hope this is a father-in-law joke.

Does he grow the special potato chip spuds? (everyone else on the list
thinks this is a joke, too;-))

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Snow" <dieselvanagon@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Racially tested off color joke(or IS it?)

> 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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