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Politics : Tell a joke - anything goes -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1850)	9/11/2018 7:13:26 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13790

OT : No joke here ... WaPo & the Aus media have a negative slant on the cartoon & the cartoonist (who is Australian) smh.com.au washingtonpost.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1850)	9/11/2018 7:42:53 AM
From: AdvocatusDiaboli	2 Recommendations Recommended By GROUND ZERO™ Vendit™ Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13790

McEnroe was a little prick in his playing days but she is just disgusting. The assertions by Wiliams and her moronic supporters that the penalties would not have occurred if she was male is BS. McEnroe copped his share but always took it on the chin. Of course he never had the Race or Gender cards to call on in his day. youtu.be "McEnroe was infamous for his massive outbursts throughout his career. One of the largest fines he received came during the 1987 U.S. Open final, when he was given a massive $17,500 fine and two-month suspension for using profanity and criticizing calls. Three years later during the 1990 Austrailian Open, McEnroe became the first player in Open history to be defaulted from a Grand Slam. He was fined $6,500 for smashing his racket and yelling at judges, and McEnroe could barely cough up anything resembling an apology after the match. “I don’t feel good about it, but I can’t say that I’m totally surprised,” he told reporters then. ‘”If I’d known the rules, I would probably have still broken my racquet, but I probably wouldn’t have said what I said to the guy.”