Ya, it's right up there with buying a nudie magazine, so you can show folks
what obscenity is (or isn't).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dirickson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 3:38 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: OT: Simply long and off-topic
>
> > One of the criticisms that some parts of the Islamic world
> > levels against
> > the U.S. is that we export our popular culture, and that this popular
> > culture is obscene. This is one of the few charges I take seriously.
>
> Bzzt. No credit. Sounds like the old joke:
>
> Woman's voice on telephone to police dispatcher: "There's a naked man
> displaying himself outside my window! I want someone to come over here and
> arrest him!"
>
> [An officer is sent to investigate]
>
> Officer: "OK, ma'am; where's this naked man"?
>
> Woman: "He's right outside my bathroom window!"
>
> [They proceed to the bathroom. The police officer looks out the window.]
>
> Officer: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but I don't see anything."
>
> Woman: "Well, of course not; you have to get up on this stool, and lean
> way
> out the window and look off to the right."
>
>
> Our "obscene popular culture", whatever that means, is ours; anyone
> choosing
> to "import" this "export" has to take responsibility for their decision to
> accept and use the "product".
>
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