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diff --git a/fortune/README b/fortune/README deleted file mode 100644 index 29de138b..00000000 --- a/fortune/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -# $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1995/03/23 08:28:29 cgd Exp $ -# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 - -The potentially offensive fortunes are not installed by default on BSD -systems. If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt -sure that your user community wants them installed, whack the Makefile -in the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all install". - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Some years ago, my neighbor Avery said to me: "There has not been an -adequate jokebook published since "Joe_Miller", which came out in 1739 and -which, incidentally, was the most miserable no-good ... jokebook in the -history of the printed word." - In a subsequent conversation, Avery said: "A funny story is a funny -story, no matter who is in it - whether it's about Catholics or Protestants, -Jews or Gentiles, blacks or whites, browns or yellows. If a story is genuinely -funny it makes no difference how dirty it is. Shout it from the rooftops. -Let the chips fall all over the prairie and let the bonehead wowsers yelp. -... on them." - It is a nice thing to have a neighbor of Avery's grain. He has -believed in the aforestated principles all his life. A great many other -people nowadays are casting aside the pietistic attitude that has led them -to plug up their ears against the facts of life. We of The Brotherhood -believe as Avery believes; we have never been intimidated by the pharisaical -meddlers who have been smelling up the American landscape since the time of -the bundling board. Neither has any one of our members ever been called a -racist. Still, we have been in unremitting revolt against the ignorant -propensity which ordains, in effect, that "The Green Pastures" should never -have been written; the idiot attitude which compelled Arthur Kober to abandon -his delightful Bella Gross, and Octavius Roy Cohen to quit writing about the -splendiferous Florian Slappey; the moronic frame of mind which, if carried -to its logical end, would have forbidden Ring Lardner from writing in the -language of the masses. - -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes" - - ... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy of The -Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: we believe in -healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if -needs be. - Needs be. - -- H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes" |