No apologies needed, Bruce. Friends should be able to air differing viewpoints withoit the need to tread on eggshells.

Bill. Don't really know where to start. You say "I don't give a rat's poop what jokes people tell around the saloon table." Does that mean that people without limbs do not go in saloons? Or should not? As to not wishing yourself or anyone else to loose a limb. Do you think that I do? Do you honestly believe that anyone in their right mind thinks that loosing a limb IS funny? You are missing the point altogether. Making a joke of a difficult situation however is a perfectly acceptable way of coping with it.

But, as they say, if you need to explain a joke there is no point in telling it. Maybe if you find one legged jokes offensive you should not have opened a thread with such an obvious title. Unless of course you happen to be a moderator and you wanted to see if the thread needed deleting? You are not though are you?

D.