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But do you know why blond jokes are so short?
So that brunettes can understand them.
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SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES. NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS
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expatinuk
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« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2007, 04:21:39 AM » |
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I'm 5'2" AND blonde... so I'm offended at blonde short jokes.
And do NOT get me started on Southern jokes.
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Expatinuk seems to be a Soviet Satellite in stationary orbit over the UK
It is what it is.
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« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2007, 08:53:33 AM » |
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I have seen lots of very offensive stuff on professors' doors, usually snide and sometimes vicious assaults mostly on Christians and conservatives. It never crossed my mind, even as a grad student, to whine to the dept. chair. And I did not have my own door to post things on, either. Deal with it, my dear.
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acrimone
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« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2007, 09:25:49 AM » |
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Someone needs to start a thread on funny blonde jokes.
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"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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rowan1
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na na na na, na na na na , hey hey hey, goodbye
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« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2007, 10:23:23 AM » |
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I'm 5'2" AND blonde... so I'm offended at blonde short jokes.
And do NOT get me started on Southern jokes.
Me too! the 5'2" and blonde part anyway. I am married to a southerner so I love southern jokes, great to torment him with. |
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The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
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« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2007, 11:25:47 AM » |
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You could always buy a "math is hard" Barbie and create a sculpture on your door that has various famous feminists disemboweling the Barbie.
Or, hide it in the men's bathroom and somehow rig it to go off everytime he takes a tinkle?
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« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2007, 11:30:35 AM » |
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Say nothing, get tenure and then post on your door a 60pt font sign that says:
"Blonde Men have Small Penises".
Choose your battles wisely.
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« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2007, 09:45:22 AM » |
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I would try to get someone else to mention it to him. "Geez, Ed, do you really think that is appropriate? If I were a blond female stdent I wouldn't like that very much. I would hate to see you get in trouble for creating a hostile work environment."
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dr_stones
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пошлите законоведами пушки и деньг
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« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2007, 02:18:56 PM » |
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Damn!
That's my door.
Maybe we should visit.
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"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Samuel "Steroid Free" Clemens
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« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2007, 04:08:28 PM » |
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Now I'm curious. I haven't heard either of these jokes before!
Let us be frank -- there are funny blonde jokes ("51 days!") and not so funny blonde jokes ("behind her ears").
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« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2007, 08:06:29 AM » |
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Why so many replies that involve letting it slide or getting the chair or someone else to mention it? What ever happened to just opening a discussion about it?
Tell him, in a non-judgmental way, that you noticed the jokes on his door. Ask what kind of reactions he's been getting. Be curious. Get him talking about the jokes to try to understand his position. You'll know from his answers if he's just a jerk, or if maybe he's just ignorant but open to the new idea that someone might be offended by his humor.
An added bonus: It's good modeling for our students to address our own problems directly, with an open mind.
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acrimone
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« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2007, 11:21:13 AM » |
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Now I'm curious. I haven't heard either of these jokes before!
Let us be frank -- there are funny blonde jokes ("51 days!") and not so funny blonde jokes ("behind her ears").
I am not going to repeat the one that's not funny, because... it's not funny. I will however, put the 51 days joke on the "Really Dumb Jokes" thread in the Meet and Greet forum. |
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"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2007, 11:44:25 AM » |
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Come on people lets review the facts:
1) OP is an untenured Assistant Professor
2) in a economics department in a conservative part of the country
3) a male colleague (who may be he tenured or otherwise in tight with the good ole’ boys) has posted this trash
Assistant Professors are denied tenure for all sorts of reasons other than actual academic performance. Any waves you make, however small, however indirect could alienate you from your colleagues. Don’t loose sight of the prize. Let this one go.
By the way, I think you are absolutely justified in your position.
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« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2007, 01:16:14 PM » |
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This suggestion wins, especially the first two steps of it. Say nothing, get tenure and then post on your door a 60pt font sign that says:
"Blonde Men have Small Penises".
Choose your battles wisely.
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« Reply #29 on: June 29, 2007, 06:07:52 PM » |
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I personally liked the Talking Barbie suggestion as a devilish dream--thanks.
I chose BIGED's reading of the situation--steer clear.
It seems, one tenured older male faculty member stepped up the plate and said something to this faculty member--who was stunned that anyone would think it was inappropriate. His 9 year old daughter had been giving them to him after sharing them with her soccer team. It seems our social indoctrination starts young--Larry Summers be wrong, imho, about the reasons for few women in the upper echelons of science, but it seems the roots of math-phobia start young.
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