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If you are of a certain age—which is to say if you are old enough to remember when people told jokes, rather than had "funny" Twitter feeds—part of your childhood was probably spent devouring Blanche Knott's Truly Tasteless series. (I'm pretty sure that's where I first learned the "pull on my penis" joke.) Anyway, you'll want to pick up the new Harper's: Ashton Applewhite, who was in fact "Blanche Knott," tells her story.
Would love to read it, but instead of buying an issue of Harper’s I’ll wait for some 12-year-old to sneak a copy away from wherever he would get it, types it in and then posts it to alt.tasteless.jokes.
I always found the series horrifically imbalanced. How funny can jokes at the expense of Blacks, Jews, Polacks, Mexicans and Gays be when you have an entire section devoted to dead babies?
@Debussy Fields nothing I loved more at age 12 than a DBJ.