The Custer Quinticentenial


While preparing for the quinticentenial celebrations for general Custer's
last stand at Little Big Horn, the committee turned to a very famous
modern artist in New York, and asked him to make a painting for the
occasion.

So after some three months, and several hundreds of thousands of dollars,
came the big moment.  A whole lot of people gathered in a huge hall, with
the media, politicians, and everyone who is anyone.  Cameras clicking,
the microphones and film cameras turning here and there ...

Then came the moment of revealing the picture. The artist takes off the
cover, and everybody, but EVERYBODY, falls silent. The cameras stop
clicking, and everyone is in total shock.

In the middle of the picture, with a halo over it, sits a huge pile of
excrement.  Around it, depicted in detail, are hundreds of couples of
indians copulating.

Well, after a few seconds a newspapermen stands up and asks the artist,
hesitantly, "Excuse me, but can you enlighten those of us who are
ignorant in the ways of modern art and explain the picture?"

"Certainly", says the artist.  "I was thinking to myself, about Custer
climbing that hill, and beholding all the indians waiting for him there,
and what thoughts would be pouring through his mind at that very moment.
This, of course, was, "Holy shit!  Where did they get all those fucking
indians!" "