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