[2208] in Humor
HUMOR: Twelve PC Days of the Secular Season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Tue Dec 16 17:24:38 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:20:53 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: abennett@MIT.EDU
>To: pug@MIT.EDU
>Cc: ljr@MIT.EDU, jhimawan@alum.mit.edu
>Subject: Twelve PC Days of the Secular Season
>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:30:32 EST
>
>
>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:12:34 -0700
>From: Merlyn Liberty <<merlyn@swcp.com>
>From: Tracy West <<west@baranof.com>
>
>The twelve days of Christmas for the politically correct:
>
>On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my
>Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave
>to me,
>
>TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,
>
>ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
>members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for
>in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a
>note),
>
>TEN melanin deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal
>ruling class system leaping,
>
>NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
>
>EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products
>from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
>
>SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,
>
>SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal
>products,
>
>FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
>incarceration,
>
>(NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to
>throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and
>partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid
>further Animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has
>been revised.)
>
>FOUR hours of recorded whale songs
>
>THREE deconstructionist poets
>
>TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses
>
>AND a Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.
>
>
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