1# $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1995/03/23 08:28:29 cgd Exp $ 2# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 3 4The potentially offensive fortunes are not installed by default on BSD 5systems. If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt 6sure that your user community wants them installed, whack the Makefile 7in the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all install". 8 9=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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" 35 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" 42