FW: [Dixielandjazz] Top 10 Reasons--decline of Dixieland Jazz

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In a message dated 26/07/03 22:01:57 GMT Daylight Time, nancyink at ulink.net 
writes:


> and two young women at a front table told me at
> intermission that they had been offended

Sorry Nancy, they got exactly what they deserved. 

To widen the scope a little. We seem to spend our lives these days creeping 
around trying not to offend the oversensitive feelings some small group of 
nutters with overdeveloped sensibilities and an under developed sense of humour.

It is not acceptable to make any remark which just might, possibly, perhaps, 
upset someone who is black, yellow, white, short, fat, tall, have acne, be 
bald, be a woman, be a lesbian, be a queer, or a queen.
Whatever you say to describe anything or anybody will, in theory at least, 
upset some person or group.
People with glasses have been called `four eyes` from the time they went to 
school, I was almost six feet tall while still at school and  weighed as much 
as a damp sponge. I was called `skinny` or `lofty`. Thats life. You either live 
with it and smile or if you are bigger than the offender you thump them. 
Thats survival. To sit around and complain and be offended is pathetic.

So there (Stamp, stamp)

Lofty and fat, 

Pat