| 1 | # @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 |
| 2 | |
| 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 |
| 5 | sure that your user community wants them installed, whack the Makefile |
| 6 | in the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all 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" |
| 34 | |
| 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" |