Examples of Confucius Say, . . . Jokes FAST-US-7 (TRENAV2C) United States Popular Culture (Hopkins) Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere The Confucius Say, ... joke (the Confucious spelling is also common) is an example of standard-format culture-bound folk-humor. Along with Knock-Knock Jokes they are among the most common examples of juvenile English-language word-play humor.

Examples of 'Knock-Knock' Jokes FAST-US-7 (TRENAV2C) United States Popular Culture (Hopkins) Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere Along with Confucious jokes, Knock-Knock jokes are one of the most common juvenile humor forms in English. While common in Britain and the U.S., as the jokes are based on English word-play and puns, they are seldom heard outside native English ...

Selections from Legman's Rationale of the Dirty Joke FAST-US-7 (TRENAV2C) United States Popular Culture (Hopkins) Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere The following is from Gershon Legman's classic Rationale of the Dirty Joke (An Analysis of Sexual Humor), Secaucus, NJ, Castle Books (in cooperation with Grove Press), 1968. As noted in the introduction, ...this analytic study ...

Senator Johnson's Great Speech FAST-US-7 (TRENAV2C) United States Popular Culture (Hopkins) Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere The following is from Vance Randolph's classic Pissing in the Snow, and other Ozark Folktales, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1976 (introduction by Rayna Green and Annotations by Frank A. Hoffmann; dedicated to Gershon Legman) ...

Selections from Pissing in the Snow FAST-US-7 (TRENAV2C) United States Popular Culture (Hopkins) Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere The following is from Vance Randolph's classic Pissing in the Snow, and other Ozark Folktales, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1976 (introduction by Rayna Green and Annotations by Frank A. Hoffmann; dedicated to Gershon ...

Politics Alan Dundes 20 Years of Political Humor Proof positive that the candidates aren t always the biggest jokes. Alan Dundes is a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his scholarly pursuits, he studies vulgar jokes and other important developments in American culture. We asked him to make a list of the best political jokes of the last 20 ...