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TWO OLD LADIES WERE SITTING AND ROCKING ON THE FRONT
PORCH OF THE OLD LADIES' HOME. ONE SAID TO THE
OTHER, "DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A CASE OF
SYPHILIS IN THE HOUSE?" "GOOD," SAID THE OTHER,
"I'M TIRED OF ROOTBEER ANYWAY."
Data entry tech comment:
THIS GUY HAS A ONE-TRACK MIND!
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; JOKE COLLECTION
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 10-05-1971
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A YOUNG FELLOW WHO WAS VERY INEXPERIENCED IN
MATTERS OF LOVE, WAS GOING TO GET MARRIED, SO HE
WENT TO SEE HIS DOCTOR FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO PROCEED
THE FIRST NIGHT. DOCTOR SAID TO GO TO BED TOGETHER,
PUT YOUR HAND ON HER TUMMY, RUB IN A CIRCLE AND SAY,
"I LOVE YOU." SO THE FELLOW WAS DOING THIS AND HIS
BRIDE SAID, "LOWER." AND THE FELLOW DROPPED HIS VOICE
A FEW TONES AND REPEATED, "I LOVE YOU."
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; JOKE COLLECTION
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 10-05-1971
WEDDING TRADITION
THE BRIDE'S GARTER IS A GOOD LUCK TRADITION BEGUN IN THE
DAYS OF CHIVALRY BY THE KNIGHTS OF THE "ORDER OF THE
GARTER."
FATE IS SEALED FOR THE BACHELOR GAY,
WHEN THE BRIDE'S GARTER IS TOSSED HIS WAY.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; WEDDING SHOWER
| Subject headings: | 860 Belief |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
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A STRIKING, BUT RATHER PLUMP COED, VISITED THE
KINDLY CAMPUS PSYCHIATRIST TO REPORT DESPONDENTLY
THAT SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS LOSING HER BOY FRIEND.
"WHY DON'T YOU DIET?" ASKED THE DOCTOR. "THAT'S
A GROOVY IDEA," SAID THE COED, "WHAT COLOR DO YOU
THINK HE'D LIKE?"
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SEXUAL INTERCOURSE INTIMATED
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; JOKE COLLECTION
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 10-05-1971
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NE GIRL TALKING TO ANOTHER: "DO YOU SMOKE AFTER
INTERCOURSE?" "I DON'T KNOW, I NEVER LOOKED."
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Collection
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 10-05-1971
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Ethnic Joke: Jewish
Irishman, Scotchman and Jew visiting dead friend in funeral parlor. Sign on dead man's chest says, "I'd like to take some money with me when I go." Irishman puts out $500. So does the Scotchman. Jew writes a $1500 check and takes the $1000 as change.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [B66] crossed out
Submission card located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Parks, William ; Collection
Keyword(s): AFTERLIFE ; BURIAL ; Dead ; Distasteful ; ETHNIC ; Funeral ; Irish ; Jewish ; JOKE ; MONEY ; Offensive ; Penny-pincher ; SCOTTISH ; Stereotype
James Callow Keyword(s): Jewish
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
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Ethnic Joke: Misc.
One fellow advising another to buy Fisher Price Toy MFG.Co. stock, because they were planning to marker a new item that was expected to go great. It was a boxed jigsaw puzzle made expressly for (Poles, or Italians, or Irish, etc.) with instructions which would eliminate any confusion by saying "open either end."
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Submission located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Parks, William ; Collection
Keyword(s): BUSINESS ; Entertainments ; ETHNIC ; GAMES ; Investment ; Italian ; Jewish ; Mockery ; POLISH ; RIDICULE ; Stereotype ; Stock
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
PROVERB
DUMBER THAN YOU LOOK
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): STUPIDITY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
THERE IS A CHURCH IN LEWISTON, NEW YORK WHICH HAS BEEN EMPTY
FOR YEARS, AND ON CERTAIN NIGHTS WHEN IT IS APPROACHED
WITH A LIT LANTERN; IT IS BLOWN OUT.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; LEWISTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
HERE'S A WAY TO GET RID OF WARTS. SPIT ON A KERNEL OF CORN AND
THEN RUB THE CORN ON THE WART. BURY THE KERNEL AND THE
WART WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | -- |
Date learned: 03-12-1968
IF YOU SWEEP ON A YOUNG GIRL'S FEET, SHE WON'T GET
MARRIED.
Submitter comment: FROM MY MOTHER--COLLECTOR.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): SPINSTER
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Marriage Dating Courtship |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
BECAUSE A CIRCLE IS ENDLESS, A WEDDING RING IS THE
SYMBOL OF UNDYING LOVE.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Wedding ring |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
IN OLDEN DAYS, A BRIDE STOOD BENEATH A CANOPY TO SHOW
SHE WAS UNDER THE PROTECTION OF HER GROOM. NOWADAYS SHE
WEARS A WEDDING VEIL TO SYMBOLIZE HER SUBMISSION TO HIM.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Bride |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
FROM EARLIEST TIMES, NEWLYWEDS HAVE BEEN SHOWERED WITH
RICE OF ABUNDANCE, WHILE THE BRIDE'S FATHER THREW HER
SHOE AFTER THE GROOM, AS A TOKEN OF HIS SURRENDER OF
HIS DAUGHTER.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Rice |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
NUMBER OF FOGS IN AUGUST (EQUALS) THE NUMBER OF SNOWS IN
WINTER.
Submitter comment: TOLD TO ME BY DR. MORREL, BIOLOGY TEACHER AT PEABODY
Where learned: BUFFALO ; TENNESSEE ; LEBANON ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through A time segment or a direction BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WEATHER PREDICTION--THICKNESS OF OUTSIDE SKIN OF ONION.
Submitter comment: THIS BELIEF IS STILL HELD. PEOPLE WILL SEND IN THEIR
Where learned: BUFFALO ; TENNESSEE ; LEBANON ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Plants |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE STORY OF THE BOY WHO CAMPS OUT. AN ANT GETS IN HIS
EAR. AS THE YEARS GO BY, HE GETS WORSE HEADACHES.
FINALLY HE IS IN A CAR ACCIDENT AND HIS HEAD IS SPLIT
OPEN. OUT COMES THOUSANDS OF ANTS, THEY HAD A COLONY
THERE.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed PROSE NARRATIVE -- Body part Senses PROSE NARRATIVE -- Insect BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
LACKAWANNA
DID YOU EVER HEAR OF LACKAWANNA, NEW YORK? WELL, I USED TO LIVE
THERE A COUPLE (OF) YEARS AGO. THE STORY AROUND THERE CONCERNING
HOW THE CITY GOT ITS NAME GOES LIKE THIS: THERE WAS THIS INDIAN
TRIBE IN NEW YORK (THE ONEIDAS, I THINK) WHO INHABITED THE
BUFFALO AREA. ONE OF THE INDIANS GOT UP ON THIS BIG OLD HILL
AND SURVEYED THE AREA. ALL THE INDIAN COULD SEE WAS WATER, SO
HE SAID, "LACKAWANNA," WHICH WAS THAT TRIBE'S WAY OF SAYING, "AS
I STAND HIGH ON THIS HILL, AND I LOOK AROUND, ALL I CAN SEE IS
WATER." AND SO THAT IS HOW LACKAWANNA, NEW YORK, GOT ITS NAME.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT, A RESIDENT OF THE BUFFALO AREA, SAID THAT THIS IS
WHAT THE PEOPLE TOLD HIM WHEN HE MOVED THERE.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): TALL TALE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 05-12-1965
LAKE ERIE
REMEMBER YESTERDAY HOW I TOLD YOU HOW LACKAWANNA GOT ITS NAME
FROM AN INDIAN STANDING ON A HILL. WELL, THE NEXT DAY, THAT
INDIAN BROUGHT THE CHIEF UP TO THE SAME HILL. WHEN THE CHIEF
GOT UP THERE HE SAID, "YOU WERE RIGHT, ALL YOU CAN SEE FROM UP
HERE IS WATER. BOY, IS THIS EVER EERIE!" SO THAT'S HOW THAT
PARTICULAR BODY OF WATER GOT ITS NAME--LAKE ERIE.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT SAID HE ALSO HEARD THIS IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): TALL TALE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 05-14-1965
SHAGGY DOG STORY
MAN WITH BOXER IN BAR, BRAGGING ABOUT HIS FIGHTING DOG.
OTHER MAN WITH SHAGGY DOG COMES IN. SHAGGY DOG BITES
BOXER'S HEAD OFF. SECOND MAN SAYS A FRIEND OF HIS FROM
AFRICA SENT HIM THE DOG AND BEFORE HE TRIMMED THAT LONG
HAIR OFF ITS NECK IT LOOKED LIKE HELL.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): LION
| Subject headings: | 6677 Formula Tale |
Date learned: 10-05-1971