From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 5:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: this was sent via e-mail Rationale of the Dirty Joke:=An Analysis of Sexual Humor Why do people tell dir=y jokes? And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny? G. Legman was perhaps=the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of th= subject. More than two thousand=jokes and folk tales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The=20 Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These folk texts=are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety= Legman studies each for its historical and socio-analytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the peo=le who listen and laugh. Here is the defini=ive text for comedians and humor writers, Freudian scholars and late night television enthusiasts. Rationale of the Dirty Joke<=FONT> will amuse you, offend you, challenge you, and disgust you, all while demonstrating the intelligence and hilarity of the dirty joke, <=HTML EFTA_R1_02114313 EFTA02709150