11th Floor Fear?
(The following was taken from part of a speech by David O’Rourke) It has occurred to me that none of my friends have ever been to the eleventh floor of the main library on campus. It had never occurred to Continue Reading …
Drinking Games
Text 2: Title of Collection: “Drinking Games” Collector’s Name: David Gerst Collection Location: Briscoe Date Collected: March 2nd, 1983 Text: This paper is a collection of many different drinking games popular at the time and of the circumstances that surround Continue Reading …
Graffiti Collection 2
Collection 2 Title of Collection: “Graffiti on I.U. Campus “ Collector’s Name: Rick Haywood Collected: 1973, Ballantine Hall (#4); Education Building (#5) 4 To do is to be and to be is to do so, do-be-do-be-do-be 5 A friend with Continue Reading …
Folk Song2
Folk Song Contributor: Clune McDermott Informant: Susie Connors Date of Text: July 6, 1969 I love, love; Love a Chi O, I always will in my dreams and thoughts, Always because a Chi O always will. Context: The informant first Continue Reading …
Bawdy Fraternity Songs
Text 2 Original Collector: Tom Geis Title: “Bawdy Fraternity Songs” – Pi Kapp Raiders Year: December 14, 1973 We are Pi Kapp raiders Raiders of the night Dirty son of a bitches We’d rather fuck than fight Singing highty, tighty, Continue Reading …
A Collection of Drinking Songs from the Theta Chi Fraternity at Indiana University
Text 3 Original Collector: Charles Betz Title: A Collection of Drinking Songs from the Theta Chi Fraternity at Indiana University” – There are No Chi Phis at IU Year: October 27, 1971 There are no Chi Phi’s at I.U. Yes, Continue Reading …
Fxck Censorship
Item 3: “Fxck Censorship” Collector’s name: Oliver Evans Collector’s location: Nicks English Hut in Bloomington Indiana Date collected: 1968 Genre/ subgenre: Political Graffiti (This is a recreation of the graffito, in the original collection.)
Folk Song3
Item 6 Folk Song Contributor: Clune McDermott Informant: Pam Collins Date of Text: July 2, 1969 Ring a ling, ling, ling; blow it out your ass; Ring a ling, ling, ling; blow it out your ass; Ring a ling, ling, Continue Reading …
Computer Folklore with an emphasis on Micro Computers
Angie is a saleswoman at a computer store, Pugsly is a programmer who knows how to run a complex word processor called ‘Wordstar’ and Supersalesman is a salesman at the computer store who knows how to sell, but not much Continue Reading …
Cemeteries 3
Text 3: The third text is about Stepps Cemetery also, but it was collected from a different informant. Larry says “Aw, there is a cemetery called Stepps Cemetery in Morgan Monroe State Forest which is famous for a for a Continue Reading …