Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'The  Art of Donald McGill'.

If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

-Packer, Kerry
  In The Guardian,1 Sep. US Republican Senator and lawyer. He was Senator for Oregon from1969 until his resignation in1995.