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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>With a bit of wordsmithing, the obviously sexist joke would have been rendered gender->neutral. Would that have made it less humorous?</span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think the punch line takes care of poking a hole in the stereotype. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 11:59:33 PM EDT, bhff02--- via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">With a bit of wordsmithing, the obviously sexist joke would have been rendered gender-neutral. Would that have made it less humorous?</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Recall that, i<span>n old medicine, humor referred to "any of the four body fluids" (blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy or black bile).</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Barry H.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 10:51:23 PM EDT, Michael Alexander via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<b> :-)</b><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Mike A<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794yqt76727" class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794yqt5963008892"><p style="font-size:15px;color:#715FFA;padding-top:15px;margin-top:0;" class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794yahoo-quoted-begin">On Sunday, October 22, 2023, 10:26 PM, John Rudy via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:</p><blockquote class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794iosymail"><div id="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794"><div><div class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794WordSection1"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;" class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794q-text"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#282829;">Two mathematicians are in a bar waiting on a friend. They call over the blonde bartender and tell her “we are going to have a little fun with our colleague when he gets here. We are going to ask you a question when he gets here. We are going to ask you ‘What is the integral of x dx?’ And you reply one half x squared. OK?” The blonde says “Got it. One half x squared”</span></p><p style="margin:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;" class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794q-text"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#282829;">So their friend arrives and they are discussing education and the one guy says “look the system is pretty good, I bet even the bartender gets Calculus. So they call over the bartender and ask her “what is the integral of x dx?” She says “that’s easy, one half x squared.” She walks away, turns back and says “plus an arbitrary constant.”</span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">John Rudy</span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">781-861-0402</span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">781-718-8334 cell</span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">13 Hawthorne Lane</span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Bedford MA</span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a></span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><img id="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794Picture_x0020_1" border="0" style="width:124px;max-width:248px;" src="cid:SywEllngslf0GV2dteXo" yahoo_partid="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="yiv8140062634ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>===============================================<br clear="none">::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br clear="none">Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br clear="none">Send to the list: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br clear="none">To subscribe: email <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br clear="none">Future and Past meeting information: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://LCTG.toku.us">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br clear="none">List information: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br clear="none">This message was sent to <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mna.ma@yahoo.com." target="_blank" href="mailto:mna.ma@yahoo.com.">mna.ma@yahoo.com.</a><br clear="none">Set your list options: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/mna.ma@yahoo.com">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/mna.ma@yahoo.com</a><br clear="none"><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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