[lbo-talk] About the joke "The Aristocrats"

[Dennis Perrin]

> I don't  buy this movie's premise.  I can get plenty of mindless vulgarity 
> for free in contemporary US culture, so paying ten bucks to experience an 
> extended meditation on scatalogical humor -- the supposedly top comedians 
> of the day working endless riffs on one dumb joke -- doesn't strike me as 
> amusing and good value.
>
> Carl

I can't bring myself to watch it, either. Even though my book is, 
apparently, prominently displayed on-screen, I still have no desire to 
listen to this joke told countless times.

Besides, I have my book on my book shelf. If I want to see the cover, I can 
do it for free.

Dennis