C of L49 "that cruel old man was an Indian killer": Thoth

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:
>...horse named Adolf...


from article on the Schmulowitz Collection, World's Largest collection
of humor, on top floor of the San Francisco public library main branch
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/31/DD3C16OD1M.DTL&type=books

 Schmulowitz collected the more popular anecdotes circulating in
Germany from books and periodicals and in 1943 self-published a
15-page booklet called the Nazi Joke Courts.

....One of his more tantalizing discoveries came during the rise of
Hitler, when he discovered the Nazis considered a political joke to be
a criminal act.
**German farmers were forbidden even to call their horse Adolf.**


-- 
"...no matter what you did to its edges the true Pacific stayed
inviolate and integrated or assumed the ugliness at any edge into some
more general truth."