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-JOKE: Popsicles
Subject: JOKE: Popsicles
A teacher was helping her students
with a math problem. She recited the
following story: "There are three
birds sitting on a wire. A gunman
shoots one of the birds. How many
birds are left on the wire?"
A boy pauses. "None," he replied
thoughtfully.
"No, no, no, let's try again," the
teacher says patiently. She holds up
three fingers. "There are three birds
sitting on a wire. A gunman shoots
one," she puts down one finger,
"how many birds are left on the
wire?"
"None," the boy says with authority.
The teacher sighs. "Tell me how you
came up with that."
"It's simple," says the boy, "after
the gunman shot one bird, he scared
the other two away."
"Well," she says, "it's not
technically correct, but I like the way
you think."
"Okay," chimes the boy, "now let
me ask you a question: There are
three women sitting on a bench
eating Popsicle's. One woman is
licking the Popsicle, one woman is
biting the Popsicle, and one is
sucking the Popsicle. Which one is
married?" he asked innocently.
The teacher looked at the boy's
angelic face and writhed in agony,
turning three shades of red.
"C'mon," the boy said impatiently,
"one is licking the Popsicle, one is
biting and one is sucking. Which one
is married?"
"Well," she gulped and in a barely
audible whisper replied, "the one
who's sucking?"
"No," the boy says with surprise,
"the one with the wedding ring on.
But I like the way you think."
Subject: Equality Rocks the vote
Ben Boxer says about the below
article: Although the music doesn't
interest me much as I have generally
been out of synch with
quintessentially "pop" music since
the 1970s, the purpose does. I would
actually be interested most of all in
the George Michael piece being left
out, about young people forced into
conversion centers.
Headline:
By Steve Gdula
Text:
It.s no accident that the gay and
lesbian arena rock show that was
April.s Equality Rocks will debut as
a TV special on October 27, just 11
days before the election. Human
Rights Campaign, the lesbian and
gay lobbying group that produced the
concert, will be tying part of its final
preelection voter awareness drive to
the cablecast.
.We.re going to build house parties
all over the country,. says Elizabeth
Birch, HRC.s executive director,
who conceived the show. HRC is
launching a grassroots voter turnout
effort to coincide with the airing on
VH1. (.They care about this issue,
and they.re supportive of HRC,.
Birch says of the cable outlet.)
.We.ll tie [the broadcast] to this
notion that we.re at a critical
juncture in our history. People will
literally get .get out the vote. kits
[at the parties] as they watch
Equality Rocks; they.ll get a
message on-screen and off about
voting..
Birch promises that nothing will be
lost in the concert.s translation from
RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., to
viewers. television sets. The spirit of
the event, right down to the
tremendous ovation and the .sea of
love. that greeted celebrity guest
Ellen DeGeneres, will be
evident.along with the parade of
gay and gay-supportive superstar
performers, including Melissa
Etheridge, Pet Shop Boys, k.d. lang,
Rufus Wainwright, and Chaka Khan.
.We want to make sure every
performer gets in,. Birch says of the
effort to compress the 5-1/2-hour
concert into a one-hour special.
The exceptions will be Garth Brooks,
who did not agree to release his
performance for broadcast, and
George Michael. According to one of
the concert.s producers, Michael was
upset that neither his duet with
Brooks nor his personally produced
video about gay teens forced into
.conversion therapy. centers would
be part of the special, since those
were the moments that convinced
him to agree to do the concert in the
first place.
Despite those absences, .I think it.s
going to be an incredible piece,.
Birch says (the show was still in
editing at press time). .We.re very
proud of it.. Those who attended the
concert might well agree that many
moments are .absolutely
magnificent,. as Birch puts it. And
whether or not you were in D.C. in
April, you may be able to catch the
next HRC-backed show in person.
.Equality Rocks will be a recurring
thing,. Birch says. .We.re aiming for
2001 to do it again.
End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #26
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