Open note to Don from Mac:
For the record, this practicing Christianist found no fault, harm nor foul in Bobc's joke.
I think it is FUNNY.
And, by today's standards, not "off-color" (which color should it have been? -- Which color is it already, for that matter?)
Oh.
That mother is Green.
Obviously.
Now that's funny, I don't care who y'are...
--Mac
Mac, I can swap dirty jokes (off color) at 30 paces with the best Irishman oot there but, knowing that my grandchildren are following this topic with the consent of their teachers, I thought it inappropriate and gave my reasons. I firmly believe that a joke need not be dirty to be uproariously funny. It would only serve to open the floodgates to jokes that would be personally offensive to you, my friend. I will die first!
All jokes are potentially offensive to some group so I've herded it intentionally toward the Irish in lieu of another nationality or race. I stand by that.