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The Best of Maledicta / edited by Reinhold Aman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obscene words.
- Invective.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 200, [8] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Maledicta
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, [1987]
- Contents:
- A Philologist's Prayer / Robert St. Vincent Philippe
- Introduction
- A Word for It! / G. Legman
- Windy Words: a glossary of euphemisms for the expulsion of intestinal gas / Bob Burton Brown
- How to Judge People by Their Farting Styles / L. Herrera
- Poonerisms / Richard Christopher
- The Cockney's Horn Book. The sexual side of rhyming slang / Leonard R. N. Ashley
- Is French a Sexist Language? Doing cunteries in France / Andrew R. Sisson
- Potentiation of a Spanish Insult / Mario E. Teruggi
- Italian and Venetian Profanity / Giuliano Averna
- Italian Blasphemies / Giuliano Averna and Joseph Salemi
- Japanese Sexual Maledicta / John Solt
- Yugoslavia, Here I Come / Reinhold Aman
- Teenage Jokesters and Riddlers. A profile in parody / Brigitta Geltrich-Ludgate
- Academic Graffiti / Weston La Barre
- Sigma Epsilon XI: sex in the typical university classroom / Don L. F. Nilsen
- Dialogue Graffiti
- Disturbing Your Seed or, greater love hath onan / Scott Beach
- Offensive Language via Computer / Reinhold Aman
- Postmature Orgastrix / Reinhold Aman
- License Plate Taboos / Frank Nuessel
- Howard University Law School Final Exam
- The Jimmy Carter Statue
- Tom, Dick, and Hairy. Notes on genital pet names / Martha Cornog
- Ritual and Personal Insults in Stigmatized Subculture / Stephen O. Murray
- A Compilation of Jokes Offensive to Everyone
- Viet-Speak / Dan Cragg
- Taxonomic Pornithology. Rules for the name of egregious and obscene birds / Douglas Lindsey
- Common Patient-Directed Pejoratives used by Medical Personnel / C. J. Scheiner
- Not Sticks and Stones, but Names. More medical pejoratives / Lois Monterro
- Scram! Or, 101 ways to sack your lover / Laurence E. Seits and Robert M. Schumacher
- Macabre Humor / Reinhold Aman
- Ethiopian Jokes / Richard Christopher
- Aids Jokes.
- Notes:
- Subtitle on cover: The international journal of verbal aggression.
- "A scholarly scatological, and witty investigation of outrageous insults, forbidden language, and wicked jokes."--Cover.
- "Warning Contains Language Offensive to Blacks, Catholics, Gays, Jews, Men, Women, and WASPs."--Cover.
- "Cover design by Toby Schmidt"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies are "2" printing.
- Running Press copy 2 has "Archives 11/116/89" on page [1].
- ISBN:
- 0089474996
- 0894715003
- OCLC:
- 15018398
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