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- # $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1995/03/23 08:28:29 cgd Exp $
- # @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
- The potentially offensive fortunes are not installed by default on BSD
- systems. If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
- sure that your user community wants them installed, whack the Makefile
- in the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all install".
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- Some years ago, my neighbor Avery said to me: "There has not been an
- adequate jokebook published since "Joe_Miller", which came out in 1739 and
- which, incidentally, was the most miserable no-good ... jokebook in the
- history of the printed word."
- In a subsequent conversation, Avery said: "A funny story is a funny
- story, no matter who is in it - whether it's about Catholics or Protestants,
- Jews or Gentiles, blacks or whites, browns or yellows. If a story is genuinely
- funny it makes no difference how dirty it is. Shout it from the rooftops.
- Let the chips fall all over the prairie and let the bonehead wowsers yelp.
- ... on them."
- It is a nice thing to have a neighbor of Avery's grain. He has
- believed in the aforestated principles all his life. A great many other
- people nowadays are casting aside the pietistic attitude that has led them
- to plug up their ears against the facts of life. We of The Brotherhood
- believe as Avery believes; we have never been intimidated by the pharisaical
- meddlers who have been smelling up the American landscape since the time of
- the bundling board. Neither has any one of our members ever been called a
- racist. Still, we have been in unremitting revolt against the ignorant
- propensity which ordains, in effect, that "The Green Pastures" should never
- have been written; the idiot attitude which compelled Arthur Kober to abandon
- his delightful Bella Gross, and Octavius Roy Cohen to quit writing about the
- splendiferous Florian Slappey; the moronic frame of mind which, if carried
- to its logical end, would have forbidden Ring Lardner from writing in the
- language of the masses.
- -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
- ... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The
- Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in
- healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if
- needs be.
- Needs be.
- -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
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