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diff --git a/usr.bin/fortune/README b/usr.bin/fortune/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..31b96a2535fb --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/fortune/README @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 +# $FreeBSD$ + +The potentially offensive fortunes are installed by default on FreeBSD +systems. If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt +sure that your user community goes berzerk/sues your pants off/drops dead +upon reading one of them, edit 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" |