Sure, it doesn't always work. But most of the jokes it doesn't work for would fail my wife's "that's too offensive" detector if I were to tell them anyway. And since she does a far better job than I do at avoiding pissing people off, I normally defer to her judgement on such things. On the other hand, she doesn't mind me getting quite offensive about my own ethnic groups.
As usual, your mileage may vary.
Xenophon
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