UBC graffiti (1969)

[neil]

on 10/15/05 1:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:

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> Has anyone heard any *new* book-author jokes ?  (_The Da Vinci Code_ doesn't
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> Or is this an obsolete genre ?
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> JL

Not particularly new (?1940s), but I have a print featuring a pair of naked
nubile blondes acting as bookends to 3 volumes titled:

'The Naked Truth' by O. U. Lye

'Bare Facts' by U. B. Barre

'The Body' by T. Bone.

Available as a PDF (only 384k).

Let me know if you'd like it sent.

--Neil Crawford

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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
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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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