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Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales / Roger Welsch ; foreword by Dick Cavett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welsch, Roger L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welsch, Roger L.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Folklore--Nebraska.
- Folklore.
- Nebraska--Social life and customs.
- Nebraska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2017 Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction: Folklore One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: "Why am I an only child?" His father's answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple retellings, these coarse tales were even delivered by such prudish sources as Welsch's stern and fearsome German great-aunts. Speaking of cucumbers and sausages in a toast to a newly married couple, the prim and proper women of Welsch's memory voice the obscene and unspeakable in stories fit for general company. Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales is Welsch's celebration of the gentle and evocative bits of humor reflecting the personality of the people of the Plains.
- Contents:
- A Brief but Suitably Scholarly and Boring Introduction
- But Enough about Me-What Do You Know about Me?
- Plain Talk about the Plains, Definitions, and What Folklore Is, Isn't, Might Be, and Is Mostly
- A Lesson in Proper Diction
- Why I'm an Only Child
- A Special Announcement
- Dad Instructs Me about Civil Ribaldry Even as I Thought I Was Instructing Him
- Naughty Is in the Ears of the Beholder
- A First Lesson in Military Nomenclature
- Diction Friction
- Evoked and Provoked
- Cipherin'
- Thinking Fast
- Cold . . . and Deep
- Inhouse Outhouses
- Speaking of Treed Raccoons
- Harvard Law
- Urban vs. Rural
- The Eternal Cuckold
- Now's Your Chance
- Using the Imagination
- Ways of the Wise
- Traffic Flow
- Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentle Sex
- Oh, Dat Ole! Oh, Dat Lena!
- Same Idea, Different Names
- No Boyz Aloud
- The Church of What?
- What Did He Say?
- How You Gonna Keep 'Em down on the Farm (after They've Seen the Farm)
- The Birds Do It, Bees Do It
- Indiscreet Secretions
- Why Is It Called a "Fly?"
- Geriatric Indignities
- Callow Youth
- Age Has Nothing to Do with It
- Innocent? Or Simply Not Guilty?
- Other Unmentionables
- An Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8032-8593-0
- 0-8032-8591-4
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