tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post3452458256752576638..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Tasteless Dirty Joke from 231 Years AgoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-60588222479189913402007-03-16T12:35:00.000-05:002007-03-16T12:35:00.000-05:00It's also been suggested that this joke is one tha...It's also been suggested that this joke is one that grenadiers would be happiest to tell.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64913083774373641602007-03-16T12:29:00.000-05:002007-03-16T12:29:00.000-05:00lol gotta love those engineers...dirty jokeslol gotta love those engineers...<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://joke-master.com/dirty-jokes.php" REL="nofollow">dirty jokes</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-23934188008239817132007-02-04T20:06:00.000-05:002007-02-04T20:06:00.000-05:00American men also got their chuckles at the expens...American men also got their chuckles at the expense of rape victims. IIn 1762, John Boyle, a Boston apprentice, commented on a rape conviction:<br /><br />At the Inferior Court lately held in the County of York Thomas Hammett of Berwick, Plaintiff, recovered of Peter Staple of Kittery, Defendant, <i>One Thousand Pounds</i> Lawful Money Damages, and Costs of Prosecution for the Defendant's Debauching, Ravishing, and Carnally knowing the Plaintiff's Wife - a valuable Wife this, who in a few minutes can make so great an addition to her Husband's Estate.<br /><br />Anyone who is looking will soon find that the common discourse of the eighteenth century included regular, vicious, misogynist rhetoric. Modern readers understand that eighteenth-century women were regarded as less than men in a host of important ways, but I think that most people don't recognize that the language of sexual violence was so prevalent among eighteenth-century men.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-53241806826347256872007-02-04T18:45:00.000-05:002007-02-04T18:45:00.000-05:00Well, engineers were supposed to be the smartest s...Well, engineers were supposed to be the smartest sort of officers.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-38868158394228658202007-02-04T14:28:00.000-05:002007-02-04T14:28:00.000-05:00Tasteless as the joke is, one must admire the leve...Tasteless as the joke is, one must admire the level of humor of the so-called "gentlemen" of the era. It required a wide knowledge of the world and current events to link together the elements necessary to get to the joke. A somewhat lost art.<br /><br />DigitalRichDigitalRichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268800011597032930noreply@blogger.com