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Unlike many other natural history movies-especially some in the current Disney cycle-it is not flossed up with camera tricks or laff-riot editing. When Secrets' love-smitten pair of octopuses meet, they do not croon to each other Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey; they simply mate, an act whose essential mechanics are obscured by a romantic flailing of tentacles...
...activities of our organization are directed towards securing inter-racial understanding and cooperation through educational methods. Because we do not believe that negative educational methods are effective, we would not write "laff" on a blackboard and tell children to avoid spelling "laugh" that way. Likewise, we would not show a film which is rife with anti-Negro propaganda and which presents a warped viewpoint of the period in American history in which the Negro's role was a highly controversial subject...
...gave it in closely reasoned prose a famous course of law called "Misleading Cases," intended to make the English understand their danger among the imbecilities of English law. This made the English laugh and gave Herbert his reputation as a humorist. He himself was too surprised even to laff...
...world was a bad joke to Shaw and he made it a worse one. This was to make people laff themselves different...
Herbert tried to laff Parliament into its senses. But the English are not a logical race. They are humorous and political and reflective and practical and poetical and reserved. They say to themselves, "A joke is a joke"-meaning that it ought to be a joke. They could not understand why Herbert should have raised a subscription and worked twelve hours a day among legal records and historic parchment to take away their right to drink whisky for 24 hours a day. They said he was a lunatic or a bolshevik. They got the Attorney-General to fight the case...