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Tongue Twister:

I slit a sheet, A sheet I slit, Upon a slitted sheet I sit.

Submitter comment:

This one was told to me by my mom many years ago.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): HUMOR ; JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Language:

Canner's Tongue Twister:

A canner exceedingly canny / Once remarked to his granny; / A canner can can whatever he can / but a canner can't can a can can he?

Data entry tech comment:

Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Written next to entry: Sense?

Original BN [C890.570] crossed out / replaced with current classification

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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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.

Data entry tech comment:

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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
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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.)

Data entry tech comment:

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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
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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
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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
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Superstition

Werewolf Moon

When the moon takes on a very orange color, this is said to be the time when werewolves come out.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): COLOR ; FANTASY ; Man ; MOON ; Orange ; SUPERNATURAL ; SUPERSTITION ; Transform ; TRANSFORMATION ; Werewolf ; Wolf

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Werewolf Vampire
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Moon

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Joke

Easter Joke:

"Easter will be a little late this year, they found the body."

Submitter comment:

Sign on the desk of a room in Payne Hall, Peabody College.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): BODY ; Easter ; holiday ; JOKE ; RELIGION ; Resurrection

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

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