# Jokes that sound like they are going to be racist, but aren't **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654 "2014-02-18T21:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654/41 "2014-02-24T10:42:46Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > How are “A newspaper”, “a blushing penguin”, and “a sunburned nun” racist? :dubious: The daily mail is a fairly racist newspaper. I once knew a nun that had just come back from Spain and she didn’t like the waiters much. I’m stumped on the blushing penguin. Unless it’s one of those that live in South Africa and is blushing out of embarrassment of supporting apartheid. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654/42 "2014-02-24T16:09:29Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > What’s black and white and red all over? An Amish guy working hard? > [@PlainJain](#): > > … wrapped in a burlap sack slung over the back of a donkey. I hope you’ll take this in the spirit its meant but ----------- I love you. 🙂 > [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Um, we’re doing Non-racist jokes, not the admissions exam for The Turtle Club. > > Are you a turtle? 😕 You bet your sweet ass I am. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654/43 "2014-02-24T19:56:51Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > How are “A newspaper”, “a blushing penguin”, and “a sunburned nun” racist? :dubious: They aren’t, but as a giggly 10 year old I thought the straight line suggested some sort of cretinous negro humor. As the OP said: jokes that _sound like they’re going to be racist, but aren’t._ And if you were whooshing me, I want my 45 seconds back that I just wasted typing this. 57 seconds, now. Edit- forget about the service charge, I need to clarify: by “negro humor” I mean a joke whose punchline was some kind of punning slam against black people. Heard a lot of them when and where I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654/44 "2014-02-25T00:16:29Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > … wrapped in a burlap sack slung over the back of a donkey. I first heard it as hand-picked, put in a sack, and thrown over the back of a donkey by Juan Valdez. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654/45 "2014-02-25T03:15:24Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I first heard it as hand-picked, put in a sack, and thrown over the back of a donkey by Juan Valdez. Yeah, it’s from an early Patton Oswalt bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-sound-like-they-are-going-to-be-racist-but-arent/681654.md?page=2)