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Thread #106298 Message #2194856
Posted By: Don Firth
15-Nov-07 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Santas' 'Ho Ho Ho' offensive to women???
Subject: RE: BS: Santas' 'Ho Ho Ho' offensive to women???
Penn Gillette, of the comedy team Penn and Teller, used to write a humor column for one of the computer magazines. He noted that Microsoft was being taken to task by a particular group of people because in the list of "wingdings" (click on Insert > Symbol, then scroll down) in one version of Word, a symbol for their particular group was adjacent to a skull-and-crossbones. They claimed that this was a secret message to those in the know, saying "Kill all (insert name of ethnic group)!"
Penn Gillette's comment about this was, "There are people in this world who, while walking through the rubble following an explosion in a Scrabble tile factory, could find something to be offended at!"
Abysmally silly. But all too true!
Don Firth