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