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  1. A quotation from Orwell

    A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack upon morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. So also with all other jokes, which always centre round cowardice, laziness, dishonesty or some other quality which society cannot afford to encourage.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-09), “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon Magazine

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  2. #DirtyJokes

    (Reprinted from the broadside, in Iona & Peter Opie’s Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 1951, p. 266 and pl. x.)

    “There are those in this congregation,” shouts the revivalist, “who have committed the unutterable sin of heing-and-sheing.

    Stand up and repent!” Three-quarters of the congregation stand up.

    “And there are those who have committed that double sin of sins, heing-and-heing.

    Stand up!” The rest of the men stand up.

    “And I positively know that there are those that have committed that triplest of triple sins, sheing-and-sheing!”

    The rest of the women all rise, sobbing hysterically.

    No one is left sitting but one little boy.

    “Elder Hogmouth,” he quavers, “how do you stand on meing-and-meing?”

    (N.Y. 1942.)