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21.2Scgd#	@(#)README	8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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41.1ScgdThe potentially offensive fortunes are not installed by default on BSD
51.1Scgdsystems.  If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
61.2Scgdsure that your user community wants them installed, whack the Makefile
71.2Scgdin the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all install".
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101.2Scgd	Some years ago, my neighbor Avery said to me: "There has not been an
111.2Scgdadequate jokebook published since "Joe_Miller", which came out in 1739 and
121.2Scgdwhich, incidentally, was the most miserable no-good ... jokebook in the
131.2Scgdhistory of the printed word."
141.2Scgd	In a subsequent conversation, Avery said: "A funny story is a funny
151.2Scgdstory, no matter who is in it - whether it's about Catholics or Protestants,
161.2ScgdJews or Gentiles, blacks or whites, browns or yellows.  If a story is genuinely
171.2Scgdfunny it makes no difference how dirty it is.  Shout it from the rooftops.
181.2ScgdLet the chips fall all over the prairie and let the bonehead wowsers yelp.
191.2Scgd... on them."
201.2Scgd	It is a nice thing to have a neighbor of Avery's grain.  He has
211.2Scgdbelieved in the aforestated principles all his life.  A great many other
221.2Scgdpeople nowadays are casting aside the pietistic attitude that has led them
231.2Scgdto plug up their ears against the facts of life.  We of The Brotherhood
241.2Scgdbelieve as Avery believes; we have never been intimidated by the pharisaical
251.2Scgdmeddlers who have been smelling up the American landscape since the time of
261.2Scgdthe bundling board.  Neither has any one of our members ever been called a
271.2Scgdracist.  Still, we have been in unremitting revolt against the ignorant
281.2Scgdpropensity which ordains, in effect, that "The Green Pastures" should never
291.2Scgdhave been written; the idiot attitude which compelled Arthur Kober to abandon
301.2Scgdhis delightful Bella Gross, and Octavius Roy Cohen to quit writing about the
311.2Scgdsplendiferous Florian Slappey; the moronic frame of mind which, if carried
321.2Scgdto its logical end, would have forbidden Ring Lardner from writing in the
331.2Scgdlanguage of the masses.
341.2Scgd		-- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
351.2Scgd
361.2Scgd	... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The
371.2ScgdBrotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in
381.2Scgdhealthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if
391.2Scgdneeds be.
401.2Scgd	Needs be.
411.2Scgd		-- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
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