README
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5The potentially offensive fortunes ARE installed by default. To avoid
6installing them, whack the Makefile in the subdirectory datfiles, and
7do "make all install".
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10 Some years ago, my neighbor Avery said to me: "There has not been an
11adequate jokebook published since "Joe_Miller", which came out in 1739 and
12which, incidentally, was the most miserable no-good ... jokebook in the
13history of the printed word."
14 In a subsequent conversation, Avery said: "A funny story is a funny
15story, no matter who is in it - whether it's about Catholics or Protestants,
16Jews or Gentiles, blacks or whites, browns or yellows. If a story is genuinely
17funny it makes no difference how dirty it is. Shout it from the rooftops.
18Let the chips fall all over the prairie and let the bonehead wowsers yelp.
19... on them."
20 It is a nice thing to have a neighbor of Avery's grain. He has
21believed in the aforestated principles all his life. A great many other
22people nowadays are casting aside the pietistic attitude that has led them
23to plug up their ears against the facts of life. We of The Brotherhood
24believe as Avery believes; we have never been intimidated by the pharisaical
25meddlers who have been smelling up the American landscape since the time of
26the bundling board. Neither has any one of our members ever been called a
27racist. Still, we have been in unremitting revolt against the ignorant
28propensity which ordains, in effect, that "The Green Pastures" should never
29have been written; the idiot attitude which compelled Arthur Kober to abandon
30his delightful Bella Gross, and Octavius Roy Cohen to quit writing about the
31splendiferous Florian Slappey; the moronic frame of mind which, if carried
32to its logical end, would have forbidden Ring Lardner from writing in the
33language of the masses.
34 -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
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36 ... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The
37Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in
38healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if
39needs be.
40 Needs be.
41 -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
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