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Originally Posted by margaretmattson View Post
That is my point. It was so commonplace back then that everyone thought it was funny. Test it yourself and watch some of the older shows with your grandkids. You will find it difficult to explain why it was acceptable.
because Don Rickles delivery was too funny to take offense. he jabbed everybody & was almost 'lovable' in the way he went about it. but things WERE different then: it was tougher to offend people as they were more apt to take a joke. today it seems everybody is offended by everything it doesn't mean you hate them, it means we can laugh together-- it wasn't to make someone uncomfortable, we laughed with them, not @ them