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Original Collector: Marc Risen
Title: Kentucky Jokes
Class: Indiana Folklore
Semester: N/A
Year: 1984
“There are three guys. One is from U. of L., one is from Indiana, and one is from Kentucky. The guy from Kentucky gets up and he pisses on his hand. He goes over and wipes it off with a cloth and goes, ‘in Kentucky they teach us to wipe our hands.’ The guy from U. of L. goes up and pees all over his hand, then washes his hands in the sink and dries them off. He goes, ‘at U. of L. they teach us how to be clean and neat and wash our hands after we pee.’ The guy from Indiana gets up and goes to pee and doesn’t get any on his hands and he looks at the two guys from U. of L. and U.K. and says, ‘at Indiana they teach us not to piss on our hands.’”
Context: This joke was told in a room of one of four fraternity brothers from Lamda Chi Alpha in 1984. All four, not including the interviewer, were I.U. students. All were white males between the ages of 18 and 22 and all were Protestant. Two were from Indiana, one was from Kentucky, and the final was from Illinois. The one who told this particular joke happened to be from Illinois. I should point out that regardless of their origin, all were Indiana Hoosiers because of their affiliation with I.U. as students.