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BOOK TITLE: ANTLERS IN THE TREETOPS BY WHOGOOSE THEMOOSE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BOOK TITLE: I MET THE TIGER AT NIGHT, BY CLAWED BALLS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BOOK TITLE: UNDER THE BLEACHERS, BY SEEMORE BUTTS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BOOK TITLE: ONE HUNG LOW, BY WHO CHOPPY COCKY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
POLISH JOKE
WHAT IS BLACK AND BLUE AND IS LAYING ON THE FLOOR?
THE LAST PERSON TO TELL A POLISH JOKE.
Submitter comment:
HE LEARNED IT FROM ONE OF HIS STUDENTS IN WATERFORD
TOWNSHIP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 04-08-1965
POLISH JOKE
WHAT IS BLACK AND BLUE AND IS ROLLING DOWN THE STREET?
YOU, IF YOU TELL ANOTHER POLISH JOKE.
Submitter comment:
I HEARD THIS IN THE WOMEN'S LOUNGE OF THE BRIGGS
BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT. A GIRL WAS
SPEAKING ABOUT AN INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE I
ENTERED. HER AND HER GIRL CAME INTO THE LOUNGE WHEN AN
OLDER WOMAN WAS ALREADY THERE. HER GIRL FRIEND TOLD
HER A FEW POLISH JOKES. MEANWHILE, THE LADY BEGAN TO
READ INTENTLY. AFTER THE JOKES WERE FINISHED, THE
OLDER WOMAN, RED BY NOW, CLOSED HER BOOK, LOOKED UP AND
SAID THE ABOVE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 04-00-1965
JOKE TOLD AS TRUE
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AT ST.
MICHAELS'S PARISH IN GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, MRS. MOROVEY
ASKED EACH OF HER PUPILS TO GIVE HIS NAME. ONE BOY
ANNOUNCED THAT HIS NAME WAS D. JONES.
"AND WHAT DOES THE D STAND FOR?"
"IT STANDS FOR DAMMIT."
AFTER MRS. MOROVEY HAD RECOVERED FROM THE SHOCK OF THE
BOY'S NAME, SHE RESUMED HER CLASS. LATER THAT DAY,
FATHER KEATING, THE PASTOR, VISITED THE CLASSROOM.
ANXIOUS TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION, MRS. MOROVEY CALLED
ON SEVERAL OF HER BRIGHTEST PUPILS TO RECITE. FINALLY,
SHE CALLED ON THE JONES BOY, WHO STAMMERED FOR A FEW
SECONDS AND THEN GAVE THE WRONG ANSWER. "NOW,
DAMMIT, THAT'S SIMPLE. DON'T YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?"
"HELL, MRS. MOROVEY," GROWLED FATHER KEATING, "GIVE
HIM A CHANCE."
Submitter comment:
THIS STORY EXISTS IN THE FORM OF A JOKE, HOWEVER, MY
AUNT CLAIMS THAT IT ACTUALLY OCCURRED IN HER PARISH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-00-1963
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THE KEE BIRD
DID YOU EVER HEAR ABOUT THE KEE BIRD?
HE'S THE ONE WHO SITS UP ON THE NORTH POLE WITH HIS
BARE ASS ON A CAKE OF ICE SCREAMING, "KEE-RIST (CHRIST)
IT'S COLD UP HERE!!!"
Submitter comment:
HARRY HEARD THIS STORY FROM A FRIEND IN A BAR IN
DEARBORN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend B400.01 PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
A STORY IN JEST
THERE ONCE WAS AN OLD COUPLE WHO HAD BEEN MARRIED MANY
YEARS AND WERE VERY HAPPY TOGETHER. ONE DAY, THE OLD
WOMAN DIED AND HER HUSBAND FELT SO BADLY ABOUT IT, THAT
HE COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO BURY HER, SO HE PUT HER IN
A COFFIN AND PLACED IT UP IN THE ATTIC. ONE STORMY
NIGHT, WHEN THE WIND WAS HOWLING AND THE SHUTTERS WERE
BANGING, THE OLD MAN HEARD A TERRIBLE RUMBLING UP IN
THE ATTIC. SUDDENLY, THE ATTIC DOOR BURST OPEN AND
THE COFFIN STARTED COMING DOWN THE STAIRS. THE OLD MAN
GRABBED HIS GUN AND STARTED WILDLY SHOOTING AT IT, BUT
THE COFFIN WOULDN'T STOP. FINALLY, IN DESPERATION, HE
REACHED INTO HIS POCKET AND TOOK OUT A COUGH DROP AND
THE COUGHIN' STOPPED.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT LEARNED THIS STORY AS A YOUNG BOY AT
SUMMER CAMP. STORIES OF THIS TYPE WERE REGULARLY
EXCHANGED AMONG BOYS AT THAT TIME (ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO WANTED TO BUILD THE STRONGEST
AND SAFEST HOUSE IN THE WORLD. SO HE COLLECTED THE
STRONGEST STEEL FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND BUILT A
HOUSE THAT HAD WALLS AND A ROOF OF SOLID STEEL.
IT HAD NO WINDOWS OR DOOR. HOWEVER, WHEN HE WAS
THROUGH, THE MAN COULDN'T DECIDE HOW HE WAS GOING TO
GET INSIDE THE HOUSE. SO HE RAN AND RAN AND RAN AND
RAN UNTIL HE WAS ALL IN!
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT LEARNED THIS STORY AS A YOUNG BOY A T
SUMMER CAMP. STORIES OF THIS TYPE WERE REGULARLY
EXCHANGED AMONG BOYS AT THAT TIME, ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-16-1963
TALE-JEST
A MAN WALKED INTO A BAR AND SAID, "BARTENDER, GIVE ME
A MARTINI, GIVE YOURSELF A MARTINI, GIVE EVERYBODY HERE
A MARTINI." SO THE BARTENDER DID, AND TOLD THE GUY HIS
BILL WAS NINETY DOLLARS. WHEN HE HEARD THIS MAN HAD NO
MONEY, THE BARTENDER THREW HIM OUT. THE MAN WALKED
BACK INTO THE BAR, REPEATED THE SAME SPEECH AND AFTER
DRINKING HIS SECOND MARTINI, AGAIN TOLD THE BARTENDER
HE HAD NO MONEY, SO THE BARTENDER ANGRILY THREW HIM OUT.
THE MAN WALKED BACK INSIDE AND SAID, "BARTENDER, GIVE
ME A MARTINI AND GIVE EVERYBODY HERE A MARTINI, BUT
DON'T GIVE YOURSELF ONE, BECAUSE YOU GET UGLY WHEN YOU
DRINK."
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT HEARD THE STORY THREE YEARS AGO FROM A
LADY WHOSE HUSBAND OWNED A TAVERN. HE HAD HEARD IT FROM
ONE OF HIS CUSTOMERS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LATHRUP
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
A STORY IN JEST
A MAN WAS DRIVING ALONE DOWN A DARK, FORLORN OLD
COUNTRY ROAD LATE ONE NIGHT, WHEN SUDDENLY HE GOT A
FLAT TIRE. HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND EXAMINED IT.
SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE A SPARE, HE DECIDED THAT HE WOULD
HAVE TO GO ON FOOT TO THE NEAREST TOWN AND GET
ANOTHER ONE. HE STARTED DOWN THE ROAD, WHEN ALL OF A
SUDDEN, HE HEARD A BRANCH SNAP BEHIND HIM. LOOKING
BEHIND HIM, HE SAW A GIGANTIC BEAR JUMP OUT OF THE
WOODS AND COME AFTER HIM. HE RAN AND RAN AS FAST
AS HE COULD TILL HE CAME TO THE TOWN. THE BEAR WAS
ALMOST UP TO HIM. THERE WAS ONLY ONE LIGHT IN THE
TOWN ON--IN THE DRUGSTORE. RUNNING INTO IT WITH THE
BEAR RIGHT BEHIND HIM, HE REACHED INTO HIS POCKET,
TOOK OUT A PENNY, JUMPED ON THE MEASURING SCALES
AND GOT AWEIGH!
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT LEARNED THIS STORY AS A YOUNG BOY AT
SUMMER CAMP. STORIES OF THIS TYPE WERE REGULARLY
EXCHANGED AMONG BOYS AT THAT TIME. (15 YEARS AGO, CA.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): AWAY
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-16-1963
A MAN WAS IN A BAR AND FEELING NO PAIN. A YOUNG
WOMAN CAME IN WITH A FROG IN HER HAND. SHE WENT UP TO
THE INEBRIATED MAN AND SAID, "LOOK WHAT I HAVE."
THE MAN SAID, "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PIG?" THE WOMAN
LOOKS AND SAYS, "THAT'S NOT A PIG, THAT'S A FROG."
THE MAN SAID, "SHUT UP, I'M TALKING TO THE FROG."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 02-22-1967
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY CALL A MILKMAN IN HIGH HEELS?
A DAIRY QUEEN.
Data entry tech comment: REFERENCE TO HOMOSEXUALITY
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 04-13-1967
WHY DID THE MAN THINK THE BURLESQUE DANCER WAS NERVOUS?
BECAUSE SHE KEPT DROPPING SOMETHING.
Submitter comment: GLORIA HEARD IT IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 04-08-1967
ANECDOTE
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD DRESS IN THE
BASEMENT.
Submitter comment: TOM LEARNED IT FROM ONE OF HIS BOYFRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PEOPLE........SHOULDN'T THROW STONES.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
ANECDOTE
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN'T WATCH
T.V. IN THEIR UNDERWEAR.
Submitter comment: SHE HEARD IT SOMEWHERE AND GAVE IT TO ME AS A VARIANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION
James Callow Keyword(s): PEOPLE......SHOULDN'T THROW STONES.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
DID YOU EVER SMELL A MOTHBALL?
YES.
HOW DO YOU GET ITS TINY LITTLE LEGS APART?
Submitter comment:
DIANE HEARD THIS FROM A FRIEND, MICKEY MRAZEK, WHO
LIVES IN MT. CLEMENS.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; CAR
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
WHAT DO YOU CALL A 6'5" - 250 LB. NEGRO -
CARRYING A SWITCH-BLADE KNIFE?
SIR!
Submitter comment: HE LEARNED IT FROM A BOYFRIEND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-16-1967