UBC graffiti (1969)

[Chris Frazier]

How about: "Life Under the Bleachers," by Seymour Butts? Or, a variation
on a previous submission, "Revenge of the Tiger," by Claude Balls. Or,
"Rape on the Beach," by Sandy Cox.

Chris Frazier
Savannah





Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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>Has anyone heard any *new* book-author jokes ?  (_The Da Vinci Code_ doesn't count.)
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>Or is this an obsolete genre ?
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>JL
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>Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:
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>On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:20:49 -0400, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>On 10/14/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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>>>Book titles are also very big among the john set.
>>>Revenge of the Lion by Claude Balls.
>>>Treasure in the Toilet by I. P. Nicols.
>>>Disaster at the Cliff by Eileen Dover.
>>>Crabs, You Say by Ivan Offelitch.
>>>Russian Revolution by Ubin Jakinoff.
>>>Moscow to Leningrad in Three Minutes by U. Bitchur Kokoff.
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>>"From Under The Stands," by Seymour Harriass.
>>"Line in The Sand," by Won Hung Lo.
>>"Yellow River," by I. P. Dailey
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>>Hm. These somehow don't seem as side-splittingly funny as they did
>>when I first heard them in elementary school.
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>Nonetheless, you and your schoolmates were taking part in a folkloristic
>tradition going back at least to the 17th century. See:
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>Charles Clay Doyle, "Title-Author Jokes, Now and Long Ago"
>Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 86 (Jan. 1973), pp. 52-54
>http://www.jstor.org/view/00218715/ap020344/02a00060/
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>This follows up on the work of Dundes and George, who also catalogued
>Confucianisms, wanton daughter puns, etc.:
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>Alan Dundes and Robert A. Georges, "Some Minor Genres of Obscene Folklore"
>Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 75 (Jul. 1962), pp. 221-226
>http://www.jstor.org/view/00218715/ap020294/02a00060/
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>--Ben Zimmer
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