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A usual workday. Twenty-three emails in my inbox. Twelve of them forwarded. Four containing jokes. I, being a bit of a comic character myself, appreciate receiving jokes through email. How can I not welcome them after spending several hours in front of a computer trying to figure out how to get a computer program to work? They lighten up my workday. They help preserve my sanity. However, there are some jokes that instead of making my workday lighter dampen it altogether. I’m referring to “green” or obscene jokes. I have received them a couple of times, and I think I still will in the future. It’s not unusual for a person to receive a green joke, laugh at it for a while, and then start sending it to all the persons in his address book without thinking that some of them could be offended. Of course it’s not always out of malice that people send this type of jokes. When a person sends me a green joke, I would like to think that he is only trying to share something that he think...

A letter to the editor I sent, complaining about the obscene pictures that come out in their newspaper. Dear Sir, I would like to congratulate you on the recent anniversary of your newspaper. Your effort in giving a new look to respond more to what the readers want is to be lauded. However, I am alarmed at the new format of the Life section of your newspaper. For the past several days, I have noticed in the centerfold of that section , big indecent pictures. I would even say that they are pornographic. One day, out of disgust, I got the entire section and just threw it to the thrash bin. I hope that the newspaper I have been reading do not fall into the sex bandwagon. I believe that the editors and staff of your newspaper know of more creative ways of attracting the readers other than having to flaunt obscene pictures at them