Stop me if you've Heard This," Jim Holt's new history and philosophy of jokes, isn't a topnotch book. It jumps around, from Palamedes to Sarah Silverman (chart), and the closest it comes to a big idea is that jokes "come and go." But there are at least 10 pages (28-38) that everyone should read. They're about Ger-shon Legman, a "self-taughtscholar of the dirty joke," who claimed to coin the phrase "Make Love, Not War," invent the vibrating dildo and introduce origami to the West (He wasn't kidding.) Born in Pennsylvania in 1917, Legman's life has a gripping, Forrest Gump-like quality to it. He moved to New York after high school, and found work as an erotic-book hunter for Alfred Kinsey, beforebreaking away to pursue his true calling. By his death in 1999, he'd amassed one of the world's largest dirty-joke collections, more than 60,000 variants filed away on index cards under amusing headers like THE BIG INCH and ZOO-phily. Holt's book isn't quite that funny, but the pages on Legman are seriously worth the read.
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机译：如果您已经听说过，请阻止我，”吉姆·霍尔特（Jim Holt）的新历史和开玩笑的哲学不是一本畅销书。它从帕拉梅德斯（Palamedes）跳到莎拉·西尔弗曼（Sarah Silverman）（图），它的出现最接近于一个大主意笑话“来来去去。”但每个人都应该阅读至少10页（28-38页），它们是关于Ger-shon Legman的，他是“肮脏的笑话的自学成才”，他声称创造了这一短语。 “做爱，不是战争”，发明了振动假阳具，并向西方介绍了折纸（他不是在开玩笑。）莱格曼（Legman）于1917年出生于宾夕法尼亚州，一生具有令人陶醉的，像阿甘正传一样的特质。约克（York）高中毕业后，他成为阿尔弗雷德·金西（Alfred Kinsey）的情色书猎人，在追逐自己的真命天子之前，他去世了，1999年去世，他积累了世界上最大的肮脏笑话收藏之一，收藏了60,000多种变体在索引卡的“ THE BIG INCH”和“ ZOO-phily”等有趣的标题下归档。Holt的书并不那么有趣，但Legman ar上的页面非常值得一读。
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