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    From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 23 20:15:36 2025
    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

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Mon Jun 23 17:31:10 2025
    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'...

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Mon Jun 23 21:38:33 2025
    On 2025-06-23 4:15 p.m., 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

    Thanks for sharing this. I particularly liked seeing the interviewer,
    Jacob Rees-Mogg, in action. He's a former parliamentarian (defeated in
    the last election) who has always struck me as one of the smartest,
    wittiest, most articulate politicians I've ever seen. (We didn't see a
    lot of the witty side in this video.) I'm looking forward to him
    returning to parliament next time around in a senior role.

    --
    Rhino

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