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1.2  cgd #	$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1995/03/23 08:28:29 cgd Exp $
1.2  cgd #	@(#)README	8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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1.1  cgd The potentially offensive fortunes are not installed by default on BSD
1.1  cgd systems.  If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
1.2  cgd sure that your user community wants them installed, whack the Makefile
1.2  cgd in the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all install".
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1.2  cgd 	Some years ago, my neighbor Avery said to me: "There has not been an
1.2  cgd adequate jokebook published since "Joe_Miller", which came out in 1739 and
1.2  cgd which, incidentally, was the most miserable no-good ... jokebook in the
1.2  cgd history of the printed word."
1.2  cgd 	In a subsequent conversation, Avery said: "A funny story is a funny
1.2  cgd story, no matter who is in it - whether it's about Catholics or Protestants,
1.2  cgd Jews or Gentiles, blacks or whites, browns or yellows.  If a story is genuinely
1.2  cgd funny it makes no difference how dirty it is.  Shout it from the rooftops.
1.2  cgd Let the chips fall all over the prairie and let the bonehead wowsers yelp.
1.2  cgd ... on them."
1.2  cgd 	It is a nice thing to have a neighbor of Avery's grain.  He has
1.2  cgd believed in the aforestated principles all his life.  A great many other
1.2  cgd people nowadays are casting aside the pietistic attitude that has led them
1.2  cgd to plug up their ears against the facts of life.  We of The Brotherhood
1.2  cgd believe as Avery believes; we have never been intimidated by the pharisaical
1.2  cgd meddlers who have been smelling up the American landscape since the time of
1.2  cgd the bundling board.  Neither has any one of our members ever been called a
1.2  cgd racist.  Still, we have been in unremitting revolt against the ignorant
1.2  cgd propensity which ordains, in effect, that "The Green Pastures" should never
1.2  cgd have been written; the idiot attitude which compelled Arthur Kober to abandon
1.2  cgd his delightful Bella Gross, and Octavius Roy Cohen to quit writing about the
1.2  cgd splendiferous Florian Slappey; the moronic frame of mind which, if carried
1.2  cgd to its logical end, would have forbidden Ring Lardner from writing in the
1.2  cgd language of the masses.
1.2  cgd 		-- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
1.2  cgd
1.2  cgd 	... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The
1.2  cgd Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in
1.2  cgd healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if
1.2  cgd needs be.
1.2  cgd 	Needs be.
1.2  cgd 		-- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"