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Item 8 Folk Song Contributor: Clune McDermott Informant: Carol James Date of Text: July 14, 1969 High above a Pi Phi garter, high above her knee, Lies the sign of Pi Phi honor, her virginity. Lay her gently, lay her Continue Reading …
"Folklore of Student Life" holds the accumulated wisdom and wit of several IU undergraduate classes and of a good many IU undergraduates, all focused upon the folklore -- those shared avenues of creativity and expression -- that is part of the college experience at Indiana University. This website is a joint production of Prof John McDowell and his students in a number of undergraduate classes
Item 8 Folk Song Contributor: Clune McDermott Informant: Carol James Date of Text: July 14, 1969 High above a Pi Phi garter, high above her knee, Lies the sign of Pi Phi honor, her virginity. Lay her gently, lay her Continue Reading …
Text 3 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 Continue Reading …
Item 7 Folk Song Contributor: Clune McDermott Informant: Sarah Green Date of Text: June 26, 1969 Tri Delts, they are the tried and true, tried and true; Tri Delts, they are the tried and true, Tri Delts, are the tried Continue Reading …
Folk Song Contributor: Clune McDermott Informant: Terry Barrows Date of Text: July 20, 1969 DG’s, they are the campus queens, oh yes they are; DG’s, they are the very best. DG’s are the campus queens. DG’s are the very best. Continue Reading …
F131 RIDDLE SAMPLE These riddles and riddle jokes were gathered in my Spring, 2007 F131 Folklore of the United States, in response to my request that students jot down a few riddles going around at the time. To make life Continue Reading …
From Elise’s journal — collected on Facebook: YOU’VE BEEN HIT BY THE |^^^^^^^^^^^^| |PRETTY GIRL TRUCK | ‘|”””;.., ___. |_…_…______===|= _|__|…, ] | “(@ )'(@ )””””*|(@ )(@ )*****(@ ONCE YOU’VE BEEN HIT, YOU HAVE TO HIT 08 PRETTY GIRLS. IF Continue Reading …
Text 2 Original Collector: Brian Hunter Title: Erotic Jokes Class: F101 Introduction to Folklore Professor: El Shamy Semester and Year: Spring 1987 Code: 87/51 Santa Claus is coming down the chimney; there is this real pretty lady in her lingerie. Continue Reading …
Text 3 Original Collector: Dani Roettoer Title: Ethnic Jokes Class: F220 Semester: Spring Year: 1984 Prof: Prof. Dolby-Stahl Q: “Why do Jewish people have big noses?” A: “Air is free.” Context: This joke was told by a 22 year old Continue Reading …
Contributor: Elise Informant: Brittany Kepler Tag: Edna Semester/Year: Fall/2005 “There was once this little girl named Edna who was walking back from school. And each day on her walk home she would pass the cemetery and see its beautiful flowers Continue Reading …
E103 T-shirt slogans FEMA Evacuation Plan (Run-Motherfucker-Run) Don’t Give Me Your Attitude I Already have One Computers are fun and useful (Image of 1980s family around a monitor) The leaf of the coca plant isn’t a drug (Image of a Continue Reading …