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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Ethnic Joke: Black
Negro:
Excited negro bank bandit says "OK you mudder stickers, this is a fuck up."
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in a pile marked [?]
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Collection
Keyword(s): Black ; DEROGATORY ; ETHNIC ; HUMOR ; Language ; NEGRO ; Offensive ; SLANG ; Stereotype ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery Filter - Mature Content |
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Ethnic Joke: Newfoundland
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
A minister is walking down the street of a small community in Newfoundland and runs into a drunk.
Minister: You shouldn't drink so much - you'll never get to heaven that way.
Drunk: I bet I'll get to heaven faster than you will.With that the drunk drops dead in the street and a few days later the minister passes on. The minister finds himself in Hell and asks the Devil for a reconsideration. The Devil lets him make a phone call to heaven to ask why he is in Hell.
Minister: Hello, is this Heaven?
Voice: Yes, this is Mary.
Minister: The Blessed Virgin Mary?
Mary: No - not since that Newfie came up here.
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DEATH ; DEROGATORY ; DRUNKENNESS ; ETHNIC ; Icons ; Innuendo ; Minister ; Newfoundland ; RELIGION ; SEX ; VIRGIN MARY
James Callow Keyword(s): Newfoundland
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery Filter - Mature Content |
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Jokes
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Dirty Old Man: "To the woods, to the woods"
Young Lady: "But I am not twenty-one."
Dirty Old Man: "You aren't going there to vote."
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Where learned: Massachusetts ; Framingham ; D' ; Aoust, Ron
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Jokes: Off-Color
What's red and sits in the corner?
-A baby chewing on a razor blade.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): BABY ; Distasteful Jokes ; infant ; JOKE ; razor
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Belief: Animal
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Belief in Oysters:
Oysters make a man sexually potent.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [P500, N245.8] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; APHRODISIAC ; BELIEF ; Male ; Oysters ; Potent ; Prowess ; SEX ; Sexuality ; SHELLFISH ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal Filter - Mature Content |
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Superstition: Pregnancy
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Marks on the Body:
If a pregnant woman has any desires and touches herself, the baby will be marked on that spot.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [P680, P870] crossed out. replaced with current classifications
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; WORK
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; BIRTH ; CONCEPTION ; Desire ; MASTURBATION ; Offspring ; PREGNANCY ; SEX ; Sexuality ; SUPERSTITION ; Suppression ; TABU ; Unborn ; Woman
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness Filter - Mature Content |
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Language
Tongue Twister:
I'm not a fig plucker, nor a fig pluckers son, but I'll pluck figs till a fig plucker comes.
Submitter comment:
Said as fast as possible and repeated until subject is thoroughly confused.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
The words Taste? and Verse? are written across the top of the card. The word Verse? is then crossed out.
Keyword(s): Fig ; GAME ; Language ; Pig ; RHYME ; Swear ; SWEARING ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech Filter - Mature Content |
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Proverbial Comparison
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
...as shiny as a nigger's heel.
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James Callow comment:
The word as is underlined.
Dup of WPP
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; TRAVERSE CITY
Keyword(s): Foot ; Heel ; Offensive ; RACISM ; Racist ; SIMILE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison Filter - Mature Content |
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Proverbial Comparison
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Shiny as a nigger's heel.
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James Callow comment:
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): Foot ; Heel ; Offensive ; RACISM ; Racist ; SIMILE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison Filter - Mature Content |
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Play on Words
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
There was a man who was bothered by the idea of how porcupines have sex. He even went so far as to ask a zoologist. He was told "Carefully, very carefully."
Submitter comment:
He had heard it from a friend.
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Keyword(s): HUMOR ; Porcupine ; PUN ; SEX ; Zoologist
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Play on Words
Traveling Salesman:
There was once a traveling salesman whose car broke down in the rain. He ran to the closest farmhouse and quickly knocked at the door. An old farmer answered and the salesman pleaded for a place to spend the night.
"I'll give you board," the farmer said, "but I ain't got no daughter for you to sleep with."
"Oh." said the salesman. "Then how far is the next house?"
Submitter comment:
I remember this from Awrey's Bakery, where I worked this summer.
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Keyword(s): Anti-feminist ; CUSTOMS ; DAUGHTER ; FARMER ; HOSPITALITY ; HUMOR ; JOKE ; Rain ; Salesman ; Stranded
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Play on Words
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Traveling Salesman:
There once was a salesman who was forced to take the train home one night. While sleeping in his bunk the beautiful young girl in the bunk below him asked him if he would get an extra blanket for her. He leaned over and opened her curtains and with a wise look said, "would you like to play like we are married?"
"O.K." she said, blushing.
"Well then," he quickly answered. "Go get it yourself."
Submitter comment:
I remember it from Awrey Bakery, where I worked last summer.
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Keyword(s): Blanket ; Consent ; Favor ; Girl ; HUMOR ; JOKE ; MARRIAGE ; Married ; PUN ; Salesman ; SEX ; Train
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Play on Words
Celibacy:
There was a priest who wore shorts every time he tool a shower. he didn't like looking down at the unemployed.
Submitter comment:
Very common joke at Sacred Heart Seminary
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Keyword(s): Celibacy ; Genitalia ; HUMOR ; JOKE ; PUN ; RELIGION ; Shorts ; Shower ; Vow
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Play on Words
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Too Young:
A young forth grade girl went up to her teacher and asked "can I have a baby?"
"Why no," ansewred the teacher, "you are much too young."
From the back of the room came a deep sigh of relief.
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Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; HUMOR ; JOKE ; PREGNANCY ; PUN ; SEX
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
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Retort
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Blow Me!
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[To What?] is written next to the submission.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Bay City
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Innuendo ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; SEX ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula Filter - Mature Content |
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Entertainment: Song
Rugby Party Song:
(Group Sings)
We are off to see the Wild West Show, the elephant and the kangaroo, big baboons and cheetahs, nothing could be neeter, we're off to see the Wild West Show.
(Persons balance a glass of beer on his head and gets floor)
"And in this cage we have the _______!"
(All)
"The _______! Incredible, Fantastic! No Shit! What the fuck is an _______?"
(Person removes glass of beer from his head and says)
"The ______ is a very strange animal. It _______."
(Chorus is repeated ehre and the song begins again.
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Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): ALCOHOL ; Crude ; DRINK ; Lewd ; Rugby ; SONG ; Sport ; Swear ; West ; Zoo
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.334 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing Filter - Mature Content |
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Entertainment: Song
Rugby Song:
Ay-yi-yi-yi
Rodriguez the Mexican Pervert,
He'll cornhole your brother and gross out your mother, and waltz you around by your willy.
(This is sung, then a dirty limmerick, then this is repeated.)
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Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): ; LIMERICK ; Mexican ; Pervert ; Rugby, Sport, Racism ; SONG ; Stereotype
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.334 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing Filter - Mature Content |
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Entertainment: Song
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
fraternity Song:
Aye-yi-yi-yi
In China they do it for Chile
So sing me another verse that's worse than the other verse, and waltz me around by my willy.
(Here is sung one's favorite filthy limerick) Then the chorus is repeated.
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Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): China ; Fraternity ; LIMERICK ; Racist ; SONG ; Stereotype ; Willy
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.344 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing Filter - Mature Content |
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Entertaiment: Song
Fraternity Song:
I'm an oyster, I'm an oyster, I'm an oyster through and through,
but I'd rather be an oyster than a God Damned Sigma Nu.
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Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): Fraternity ; Oyster ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing Filter - Mature Content |
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Entertainment: Song
Jump-Rope Game:
"Double Dutch"
Lemonade, Lemonade,
Made in the shade.
Five cents a glass,
As big as an elephant's ass...K your mother!
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ASS ; Cents ; Double Dutch ; ELEPHANT ; Entertainment ; Five ; GLASS ; Jump Rope ; Lemonade ; MONEY ; Play ; RHYME ; Shade ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music Filter - Mature Content |