"The Aristocrats" from 6ershon Legman's "Rationale Of The Dirty Joke, An Analysis Of Sexual Humor Series Two: No Laughing Matter" from page 987.. One cannot fail to observe the intrusion of the children in these disaster scenes, since there is really no story without them. One can endure, perhaps, the explosion of the outside world. But when one's inner island or jealously dark-held tower...home, family, cave-in-the- woods, or what have you?...is collapsing as well, and in a particularly scataphoric way; then everything has really gone to smash. Like the jokes of the first chapter in the First Series here, on "Children," these jokes are the revenge of the child who has grown up, and can now tell his own stories. The final and pointed indictment puts the finger on the purulent seat of the disease: lying and cruelty to children, and their abnormalization to suit the parents' and society's sick needs. No story has been encountered, in the thirty-five or more years of this research, that makes this point so absolutely frankly, yet with what worlds of unspoken sardonic criticism, as the following: A vaudeville performer is describing his act to a skeptical booking agent. "It's very simple. My wife and I shit on the stage, and then the kids come out and wallow in it" Agent, thunderstruck: "What kind of an act do you call that?" Vaudevillian, polishing his fingernails on his lapel: "We call it... 'The Aristocrats'!" EFTA01142655