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Posted by Simon (# 1) on :
 
Joke submitted by belisarius, st, Irene, Sandra, KenWritez and Andy:

Why don't Baptists make love standing up?

Because people might think they were dancing.

[ 20. July 2005, 23:38: Message edited by: Simon ]
 

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Posted by The Bede's American Successor (# 5042) on :
 
I knew this joke before opening the thread, as I was first heard it from a Baptist friend of mine back in 1981 (more or less). I would add the second joke he told me that day, but it isn't religous (although about a Baptist)—and someone would remind me the rules for this board.

The joke plays off the standard party line about Baptists.
 

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Posted by Boreal (# 9550) on :
 
I heard it as "because they might start dancing" which cracks me up every single time. This version isn't quite as funny.
 

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Posted by Fool of a Took (# 7412) on :
 
I agree with Boreal. I'd rather think that horizontal baptists were more concerned with the risk of sinning than about what other people might think.

One punch line makes them devout, the other, hypocritical.
 

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Posted by Matrix (# 3452) on :
 
The version i heard went "Why has Wheaton College banned sex? Because it might lead to dancing".

I find it moderately amusing. I'm a British baptist, so this has less power as we're not as upright as some of our transatlantic brethren.

Fo me it works on a whole bunch of levels, it gently pokes fun at our more silly ideas, the butt of the joke isn't any one person, but an idea, and one that has held a lot of people back. Not offensive to me at all, perhaps this is a good example of religious humour, and one that fits the bill of what we're looking for in this experiment to identify jokes that might border on criticism of a particular group.

M
 

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Posted by TrudyTrudy (I say unto you) (# 5647) on :
 
It's a Seventh-day Adventist joke too. The punchline I'd always heard was "Because it might lead to dancing," which I find funnier.
 

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Posted by Belisarius (# 32) on :
 
One nitpick--I didn't submit this particular joke, though I have heard it (the slightly edgier variant, with the minister saying the punchline to his female friend within the church).
 

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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
But it's so very old... I've heard it about a million times over the last 20 years or so...
 

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Posted by Esmeralda (# 582) on :
 
This is far too old for me to find it funny.

I last heard it told about Mennonites, and the punchline was 'Because it might lead to dancing'. I do agree that's a better punchline.
 

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Posted by whitelodge (# 3339) on :
 
The way I first heard this it was an Orthodox Rabbi being asked if any sexual positions are not lawful. He says, "They're all fine. Except standing up... that could lead to dancing."

I kind of prefer this for the whole Talmudic scholarship aspect that you get when it's a Jewish joke.
 

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Posted by J. J. Ramsey (# 1174) on :
 

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Originally posted by whitelodge:
The way I first heard this it was an Orthodox Rabbi being asked if any sexual positions are not lawful. He says, "They're all fine. Except standing up... that could lead to dancing."

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But why would dancing be an issue? AFAIK, Jews, not even the Orthodox ones, have anything against dancing.
 

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Posted by ecumaniac (# 376) on :
 

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Originally posted by J. J. Ramsey:
[QUOTE]But why would dancing be an issue? AFAIK, Jews, not even the Orthodox ones, have anything against dancing.

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