README
1# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
2# $FreeBSD$
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4The potentially offensive fortunes are installed by default on FreeBSD
5systems. If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
6sure that your user community goes berzerk/sues your pants off/drops dead
7upon reading one of them, edit the Makefile in the subdirectory datfiles,
8and do "make all install".
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11 Some years ago, my neighbor Avery said to me: "There has not been an
12adequate jokebook published since "Joe_Miller", which came out in 1739 and
13which, incidentally, was the most miserable no-good ... jokebook in the
14history of the printed word."
15 In a subsequent conversation, Avery said: "A funny story is a funny
16story, no matter who is in it - whether it's about Catholics or Protestants,
17Jews or Gentiles, blacks or whites, browns or yellows. If a story is genuinely
18funny it makes no difference how dirty it is. Shout it from the rooftops.
19Let the chips fall all over the prairie and let the bonehead wowsers yelp.
20... on them."
21 It is a nice thing to have a neighbor of Avery's grain. He has
22believed in the aforestated principles all his life. A great many other
23people nowadays are casting aside the pietistic attitude that has led them
24to plug up their ears against the facts of life. We of The Brotherhood
25believe as Avery believes; we have never been intimidated by the pharisaical
26meddlers who have been smelling up the American landscape since the time of
27the bundling board. Neither has any one of our members ever been called a
28racist. Still, we have been in unremitting revolt against the ignorant
29propensity which ordains, in effect, that "The Green Pastures" should never
30have been written; the idiot attitude which compelled Arthur Kober to abandon
31his delightful Bella Gross, and Octavius Roy Cohen to quit writing about the
32splendiferous Florian Slappey; the moronic frame of mind which, if carried
33to its logical end, would have forbidden Ring Lardner from writing in the
34language of the masses.
35 -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
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37 ... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The
38Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in
39healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if
40needs be.
41 Needs be.
42 -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
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