Truly Tasteless Jokes
Decoder Ring
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What's the Difference Between Garbage and a Girl From New Jersey?
Ashton's agent sent the book out to publishers, and it didn't go well. American obscenity statutes were based under british ruling from 18 68. It came in a case involving a protestant pamphlet that made fun of what supposedly happened in catholic confessionals. The court rule that this pamphlet was obscene on the grounds that if it fell into the hands of a young woman, essentially it could corrupt her. In 19 61, the comedian lenny bruce was arrested on obscenity charges for using the word coxsucker in his stand up set. And just as the fight to overturn these laws to let people say and hear offensive things heated up, so did another
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