The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

BLACK-AMERICAN JOKE

ONCE TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING DOWN
MAIN STREET IN NATCHEZ, MISSIPPI.
ONE OF THE MEN STUTTERED VERY BADLY.
THE STUTTERER LOOKED UP AND SUDDENLY
CRIED OUT "MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MAN
DID U U U U U U U U YOU SEE SEE SEE
THAT GIR GIR GIR GIR GIR GIRL WI WI
WI WI WI WITH THEM PUR PUR PUR PUR
PURTY LEGS?" HIS FRIEND REPLIED,
"WHAR?" THE STUTTERER SAID, "OH, OH
OH, OH, HER GONE NOW." THEY PROCEEDED
WALKING WHEN THE STUTTERER NOTICED
ANOTHER PRETTY GIRL AND WENT THROUGH
THE SAME LONG QUESTION TO HIS FRIEND;
HOWEVER, BY THE TIME HE GOT IT OUT,
HIS FRIEND HAD MISSED SEEING THE
PRETTY GIRL AGAIN. AS THEY CONTINUED
THEIR WALK, THE STUTTERER CRIED OUT
AGAIN, "MA MA MA MA MA MAN, DI DI DI
DI DID YOU," AND BEFORE HE COULD GET
FINISHED WITH HIS QUESTION, HIS FRUSTRATED
FRIEND CRIED OUT, "MAN, I SEED IT, I
SEED IT." THE STUTTERER THEN REPLIED,
"WELL IF YOU SEED IT, WHATCHA GO AND
STEP IN IT FOR?".

Submitter comment: MANNERISMS, ACCENT AND JESTURES OF THIS
PERSON IS AUTHENTIC.

Where learned: MISSISSIPPI

Date learned: 09-20-1985