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Original Collector: Steve Spelman
Title: Folk Tale Jokes
Class: F220 American Folklore
Professor: Dolby-Stahl
Semester and Year: Fall 1984
Code: 84/125
Convent with 50 nuns and one mother superior. The mother superior is talking to the 50 sisters and she goes, “I found a pair of men’s underwear here,” and 49 nuns go “Uhhh” and one goes, “He he he.” And then she goes, I found a rubber over here too.” 49 nuns go “uhhh” and one goes “he he he.” And then the mother superior goes, “The thing is, the rubber had a whole in it.” 49 sisters go, “He he he” and one goes “uhhh.”
Context: This joke was told in Indiana University in the setting of an apartment. The students present at this conjunction were male and all friends. They were asked to relay jokes that had a plot that the listener could follow along with until the ending punch line.