catbirdseat Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Smut I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mine. It's called... Smut! Give me smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut, If it's uncut, and unsubt- le. I've never quibbled If it was ribald, I would devour where others merely nibbled. As the judge remarked upon the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense, "To be smut it must be utterly without redeeming social importance."; Por- Nographic pictures I adore. Indecent magazines galore, I like them more If they're hard core. (Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!) Stories of tortures Used by debauchers, Lurid, licentious, and vile, Make me smile. Novels that pander To my taste for candor Give me a pleasure sublime. (Let's face it, I love slime.) All books can be indecent books Though recent books are bolder, For filth (I'm glad to say) is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd. (I could tell you things about Peter Pan, And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!) I thrill To any book like Fanny Hill, And I suppose I always will, If it is swill And really fil- thy. Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately? I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley. But now they're trying to take it all away from us unless We take a stand, and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press. In other words, Smut! (I love it) Ah, the adventures of a slut. Oh, I'm a market they can't glut, I don't know what Compares with smut. Hip hip hooray! Let's hear it for the Supreme Court! Don't let them take it away! Tom Lehrer, 1965: That Was the Year that Was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Poor Trask... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted May 20, 2003 Author Share Posted May 20, 2003 What do you mean "poor trask"? He's loving it. He probably has gone off in search of the albumn already. By this evening, he'll have it memorized so he can sing it at the Fall Rope Up. You know he has a beautiful voice, don't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 I get no respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 You are probably correct - he does love it. We all need a little attention and Trask craves for his. He does handle the abuse well. Cheers to more abuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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