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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Roger Welsch is a retired professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning. He is the author of more than forty books, including A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore (Nebraska, 1966), My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker (Nebraska, 2011), and most recently, The Reluctant Pilgrim: A Skeptic’s Journey into Native Mysteries (Nebraska, 2015). Dick Cavett is the former talk-show host of The Dick Cavett Show. Originally from Nebraska, he was a writer for The Tonight Show for host Johnny Carson and won three Emmy awards throughout his career.
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Foreword Acknowledgments 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 In-house Outhouses Speaking of Treed Raccoons Harvard Law Urban v. Rural The Eternal Cuckold Now’s Your Chance Using the Imagination Ways of the Wise Traffic Flow Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentler 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)? 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
Foreword Acknowledgments 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 In-house Outhouses Speaking of Treed Raccoons Harvard Law Urban v. Rural The Eternal Cuckold Now’s Your Chance Using the Imagination Ways of the Wise Traffic Flow Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentler 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)? 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
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