Like it as not, here in California, if we were to present a female gopher, for example, some pseudo-militant femanist would see a definite opportunity for filing a sexual-harassment case. Likewise, we would not want the latino community to find such financial opportunity. Yes, we indeed live in such a world. I would really like to wear such a shirt in public without getting bruised, battered, beaten, or sued. I can usually do something about the first three, but the last one is *real* expensive. At 08:08 PM 10/10/98 +0000, Sam Thomas wrote:
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Also, let's make sure that the color of the backhoe doesn't depict the color used by any particular manufacturer of backhoes, as they might want to sue based on defamation of their product/brand name.
Reall, kids, if you're that bent on creating a politically correct expression of your negative emotions toward backhoes, just give up! If this society has advanced to the point where one can't make fun of anything without the fear of being sued/fired/shot stopping them, then it's time to depopulate and start over. Being a minority (having common sense and intelligence), I am offended by this "cleansing" process that seems to have taken control of a little joke. I'm going to sue!
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On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:17:03AM -1000, scott w wrote:
Also please point the crosshairs at the motor compartment and not the human operator compartment. Cool! Let's all get some shirts that *really* express our innermost feelings... :)
scott
================================================================== At 11:13 AM -0700 10/9/98, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: I just took a peek at the Gomes Gopher shirt.
IMHO, it would be a LOT better not to depict *any* person at all. Simply a picture of the back-hoe, bright yellow, in the gun-sights. Make is a hi-tech gun-sight with ranging ranging, azimuth, and elevation markings. The back-hoe should be one of those enclosed driver compartment types so the operator can't be seen.
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