Re: That's not funny!

On 6/23/2025 4:15 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Student detained by school authorities for repeating Roald Dahl joke
(it's a silly pun), accused of racism. It's from Charlie and the Glass
Elevator. The book is in the school library.
 The boy was detained for several hours.
 Father asks how a student is supposed to know a joke is disapproved if
the student is quoting from school-owned materials.
 Do I need to say it happened in England? The school was in Kent.
However, I could see it happening here in America.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCKS0G7RcY

The joke's presence in the school library is a wrongheaded defense, likely to accomplish only a festering swarm of book-burning nannies. E.g., say goodbye to 'The Nigger Of the Narcissus'...