Nate Wysong’s archive jokes:
Text 1
Original Collector: Julie Price
Title: Jokes, Superstitions, Tradition
Class: F220
Semester: Spring, 1984
Prof: Sandra Dolby-Stahl
Q: “Why does San Francisco have AIDS and Lafayette have Boilermakers?”
A: “Because San Francisco got to pick first.”
Context: The person who performed the text was a 19 year old female named Gina Deleo from Richmond, IN. She was an I.U. student living in McNutt dormitory at the time. It was a one-on-one interview between the informant and the interviewer. This joke makes an interesting twist on a very serious problem (AIDS). The informant uses the negativity of AIDS and uses it to make the idea of being a Boilermaker even worse in a joking manner.