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[johnny9fingers]

Okay, more on bad taste jokes: the more awful and taboo breaking, the better. But first the rant.

I've just taken delivery of 'The Best of Maledicta' edited by Reinhold Aman. ISBN 0-89471-499-6.
Now I have a few issues of the original Journal, and have long held Aman to be a sage of the first order. He did have a bit of a problem, I recall, with the authorities when he got divorced. And I also believe he has a fairly heavy internet rep. But an academic dedicated to 'verbal aggression' and insult (not to mention blasphemy, slang, and the languages of violating taboo) will always have better ammunition when it comes to a war of words. Ergo, it is hardly surprising that he has a bit of a rep.

That's one guy I hope I never cross swords with. (After all, we're bound to disagree.)

Anyway, amongst the thefts from his collection are Jokes, Insults, Poems, Petty Blasphemies, Racial Slurs, Sexist Canards, and a degree of scholarship unusual given the subject matter.
He begins by printing Robert St. Vincent Phillipe's (a pseudonym I fear) 'A Philologist's Prayer'.

Our Teacher who art in English
Proper be Thy Noun;
Thy Adverb come,
Thy Will (and Shall) be done
In pronouns as in Interjections

Give us this day our Passive Verb
And forgive us our Prepositions,
As we decline those who Conjugate against us.

And lead us not into Conjunctions,
But deliver us from Adjectives,
For Thine is the Comma,
And the Period,
And the Colon, forever.
Amen

And interspersed throughout all these entries are jokes, for example:

Why does Helen Keller masturbate with only one hand?
Because she needs the other to moan.

More later....

Comments

"she needs the other to moan"

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

Priceless.

Re: "she needs the other to moan"

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

There are some horrible race jokes, too. Print or not?

Re: "she needs the other to moan"

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

Under a (LJ) "cut" with a suitable warning ?

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[tripinthehead33.livejournal.com]

If you are open to horrible jokes, look up the "Book of Sick". www.bookofsick.com I purchased it at a book store on a drunken prowl through a mall years ago. It is most definitely twisted, and you can sample the material in it on the site. I think I paid something like $20 or so for it. The drawings aren't anything good, but they depict the concept of the characters in question fairly well.

beyond bad taste ...

[masquedbunny.livejournal.com]

is the dead baby joke.

Re: beyond bad taste ...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Erk.
There is a certain darkness of soul...and I deem we all have it in some greater or lesser amount.
However, the best part of 70 of those nasties is enough to desensitise the most pious-minded follower of Gandhi.

Laughed, we nearly shat...
we have not had such fun since Grandma died,
or Aunt Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle....
(P. Cook and D. Moore)

Re: beyond bad taste ...

[masquedbunny.livejournal.com]

I was introduced to dead baby jokes at university. A few of them aren't very funny at all. Some make me laugh and cry at the same time, being awful and absurd all at once. But most of them make me grimace.

Other good example:

So, a baby seal walks into a club--

Again, awful, but there you go.

Re: beyond bad taste ...

[vlion.livejournal.com]

I have a couple off-limit joke areas with my friends. Among those is Jew/Holocaust jokes(I'm part German Jew) and dead baby jokes.

/shudder

Re: beyond bad taste ...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I understand. No problem. I'm interested in this stuff, but not to the point of offending folk. I have to lose my temper with something before I willingly offend folk. Probably obvious when it happens. Ouch.

Re: beyond bad taste ...

[masquedbunny.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. Erm ... don't click the link, then.

I understand the need for limits--but I think I'm okay with people who are of those limits breaking them. For example, I wouldn't tell a black joke or a Jew/Holocaust joke--but I'd probably laugh at Chris Rock telling a black joke, or Mel Brooks telling a Jew/Holocaust joke.

Re: beyond bad taste ...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Again, you have a point. I too can listen to a black person tell black jokes or a Jewish person telling Jewish jokes.
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