FOLK COLLECTION 8a

Group 9: E-lore

Utah State University Student Folklore Genre Collection

Introduction

Date of Items:	1970s to present
Collection Processed by:	Rebecca Rushing
Register Prepared by:	Randy Williams
Date Last Updated:	2002
Linear Feet:	1
Restrictions:	Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s).

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Historical Note

The USU Student Folklore Genre Collection consists of folklore items collected by undergraduate students in Utah State University folklore classes from the early 1960s to the present and by undergraduate students in Brigham Young University folklore and anthropology courses during 1960 to 1978. The items are arranged by themes. The collection continues to grow. Click for complete USU Student Genre Collection history.

Provenance

The items in the Student Folklore Genre Collection were collected by USU students in folklore and anthropology classes as part of course requirements and deposited in the Fife Folklore Archives by the instructor. The materials in Group 9: E-lore cover the period from approximately 1970 to the present. The collection was created in 1997 by Rebecca [Rushing] Clark.

Scope and Content

The Student Folklore Genre Collection: Group 9: E-lore (Electronically Transmitted Folklore) consists of approximately 200 individual items of e-lore collected by undergraduate students. Most items include informant, context, text (the folklore item), texture (stylistic notation), and collector data. The materials reflect both insider (esoteric) and outsider (exoteric) views of a folk group and may be prejudiced or stereotyped. Click here for collection disclaimer. The collection is part of a larger student genre collection that is separated into ten distinctive categories. The materials do NOT circulate. Major breakdowns include:

Xerox
Facsimile
E-mail

Inventory

Box 1

1. Xerox

1.1. Pictorial (Folder 1)

1.2. Exams (Folder 2)

1.3. Chain Letters (Folder 3)

1.4. Lists (Folder 4)

1.5. Parodies

1.5.1. Applications (Folder 5)

1.5.2. Advertisements (Folder 6)

1.5.3. Letters/Memos (Folder 7)

1.5.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 8)

1.6. Legends (Folder 9)

1.7. Jokes (Folder 10)

1.8. Occupational (Folder 11)

1.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 12)

Box 2

2. Facsimile

2.1. Pictorial (Folder 1)

2.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 2)

3. E-mail

3.1. Pictorial (Folder 3)

3.2. Chain Letters (Folder 4)

3.3. Lists (Folder 5)

3.4. Riddles/Games (Folder 6)

3.5. Legends (Folder 7)

3.6. Jokes (Folder 8)

3.7. Proverbs (Folder 9)

3.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 10)

Register

1. Xerox

1.1. Pictorial

1.1.1 Old Timer’s Eye Exam (Folder 1)

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1.1.2 Somewhere Behind Mt. Rushmore

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1.1.3 The Polite Cat

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1.1.4 Next time use all your fingers when you wave!

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1.1.5 To err is human.

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1.1.6 The Work Wheel

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1.1.7 You did it just like I told you!

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1.1.8 Optical Illusion

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1.1.9 The cow did it!

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1.1.10 Range cattle destroying spotted owl habitat.

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1.1.11 Drug-Free America

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1.1.12 Pressure in the work place.

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1.1.13 Is it Friday yet?

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1.1.14 I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I’m going to blame you.

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1.1.15 Angler’s Guide to Flaming Gorge - Hole in the Rock Area

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1.1.16 Persian Gulf Darts

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1.1.17 I think we made a wrong turn.

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1.1.18 I think I’m having stress.

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1.1.19 Before/After Work

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1.1.20 I can’t stand the tension.

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1.1.21 It takes teamwork.

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1.1.22 Work diligently ... you’ll get your reward.

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1.1.23 The Evolution of Authority

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1.1.24 Don’t ever give up!

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1.1.25 How did your day go?

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1.1.26 A Chat with the Boss

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1.1.27 What the customer wanted.

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1.1.28 Understanding of Technology

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1.1.29 OSHA Cowboy

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1.2. Exams

1.2.1 L.A. High School Math Proficiency Exam (Folder 2)

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1.2.2 Following Directions

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1.2.3 Utah County Residency Eligibility Exam

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1.2.4 University/High School Entrance Exam

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1.3. Chain Letters

1.3.1 Kiss someone you love. (Folder 3)

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1.3.2 The Phantom

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1.3.3 Chain letter for women only.

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1.3.4 The alien turned into paper.

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1.3.5 $250 Cookie Reward

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1.3.6 Dish Towel Club

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1.4. Lists

1.4.1 Excuses (Folder 4)

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1.4.2 Real programmers don’t write specs.

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1.4.3 25 reasons why beer is better than women.

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1.4.4 How to know if you’re working with aliens.

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1.4.5 We are survivors.

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1.4.6 CJHS Ten Commandments

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1.4.7 Announcements taken from church bulletins.

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1.4.8 The Rules

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1.4.9 Guess Who?

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1.4.10 NPC Specialties

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1.4.11 Rules and Regulations

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1.4.12 Bill Clinton’s Medical Dictionary

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1.4.13 University’s Job Description

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1.4.14 Prison vs. Convergys

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1.5. Parodies

1.5.1. Applications

1.5.1.1 Application to be ill. (Folder 5)

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1.5.1.2 Application to date a returned missionary.

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1.5.1.3 Application for Jessie Jackson’s staff.

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1.5.2. Advertisements

1.5.2.1 Insurance for Chop and Drop Syndrome (Folder 6)

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1.5.2.2 IO: A Moon of a Different Phase

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1.5.2.3 Bob’s School of Quantum Mechanics

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1.5.2.4 Mouse Balls

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1.5.2.5 Earl Chicken for Ag. Senator

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1.5.2.6 Swap Meet in Marion, Utah

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1.5.2.7 Thank you for not smoking.

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1.5.3. Letters/Memos

1.5.3.1 The Bangerter Committee (Folder 7)

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1.5.3.2 Playgirl Magazine

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1.5.3.3 Lonesome? Like to meet new people?

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1.5.3.4 Move to 24 hour schedule.

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1.5.3.5 Restroom Trip Policy

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1.5.3.6 Christmas Bonus

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1.5.3.7 Automobile Dimmer Switches

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1.5.3.8 Holiday turkeys replaced with catfish.

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1.5.3.9 Cat ranch investment opportunity.

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1.5.3.10 Special High Intensity Training Program (S.H.I.T.)

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1.5.3.11 Letter: “Yours for more credit.”

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1.5.3.12 Notice of return to the world.

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1.5.3.13 A letter from home.

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1.5.0. Miscellaneous

1.5.0.1 New male contraceptive device. (Folder 8)

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1.5.0.2 Roadkill Café Menu

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1.5.0.3 Agreement to refrain from sexual harassment.

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1.5.0.4 Wanted - Reward

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1.5.0.5 Guide to teachers performance appraisal.

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1.5.0.6 The First Epistle of the College Student to the Dead Letter Writer

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1.5.0.7 Gift certificate: Good for one free home visit from Jack Kevorkian.

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1.5.0.8 The Stress Diet

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1.5.0.9 The Ten Classic Rules of Basic Algebra

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1.5.0.10 Alum Plug

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1.5.0.11 Jack Schitt Genealogy

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1.5.0.12 Just a drink or two.

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1.5.0.13 Ballad of the Bobbit Hillbillies

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1.6. Legends

1.6.1. Urban/Modern

1.6.1.1 Blue Star Tattoo (Folder 9)

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1.6.1.2 Don’t flash your headlights!

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1.7. Jokes

1.7.1 What not to name your dog. (Folder 10)

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1.7.2 Senior citizens beat inflation.

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1.7.3 A Snow Diary

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1.7.4 Why I fired my secretary.

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1.7.5 Farmer’s Divorce

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1.7.6 If you’re unhappy.

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1.7.7 The Bumper Sticker

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1.7.8 Blonde Jokes

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1.8. Occupational

1.8.1 Take a number ... 3 people limit unless I install handrails. (Folder 11)

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1.8.2 Notice – floggings will continue until morale improves.

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1.8.3 The Perfect Woman

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1.8.4 Stress: confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic...

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1.8.5 Tantrum Mat

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1.8.6 Spellbound: I have a spelling checker, it came with my PC.

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1.8.7 A Day Off

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1.8.8 Helen Waite

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1.8.9 Due to recent AIDS epidemic, [butt] kissing will be discontinued.

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1.8.10 “Shit Happens” – various world religions.

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1.8.11 High Performance Woman

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1.8.12 People who think they know it all are especially annoying to those of us who do.

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1.0. Miscellaneous

1.0.1 If you are tired of being hassled by unreasonable parents, now is the time for action.

Leave home while you still know everything. (Folder 12)

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1.0.2 Collections of various types.

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2. Facsimile

2.1. Pictorial

2.1.1 The Polite Cat (Folder 1)

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2.1.2 Crack Kills

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2.1.3 Wanted – Good woman with boat and motor.

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2.1.4. Lucy the Bitch

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2.1.5 51% Sweetheart, 49% Bitch

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2.0. Miscellaneous

2.0.1 Stress Diet (Folder 2)

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2.0.2 California, the Welfare State

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2.0.3 Tonya Harding Center of Opponent Neutralization

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2.0.4 Wyoming Residency Eligibility Test

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2.0.5 “Shit Happens” in different religions.

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3. E-mail

3.1. Pictorial

3.1.1 Halloween (Folder 3)

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3.1.2 Scenery

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3.2. Chain Letters

3.2.1 Dogs (Folder 4)

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3.2.2 Money Making

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3.2.3 Good Luck

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3.3. Lists

3.3.1 Answers to “Why did the chicken cross the road?” (Folder 5)

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3.3.2 “Actual” answers on student exams.

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3.3.3 Collected signs.

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3.3.4 What if’s?

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3.3.5 Viruses

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3.3.6 Views on Life

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3.3.7. Jokes

3.3.7.1 Top ten reasons why chocolate is better than sex.

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3.3.7.2 The Poopie List

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3.3.7.3 Top ten things that sound dirty on Christmas but aren’t.

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3.3.7.4 47 fun things to do in an elevator.

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3.3.7.5 The New Barbie

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3.3.7.6 Testing New Drugs: Viagra

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3.3.7.7 How to keep a healthy level of sanity and drive others insane.

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3.3.7.8 Top ten reasons college is like preschool.

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3.3.8 20 saying we’d like to see on those office inspirational posters.

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3.4. Riddles/Games

3.4.1 Orange kangaroo living in Denmark. (Folder 6)

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3.5. Legends

3.5.1 “Pluck yew” and “giving the bird.” (Folder 7)

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3.5.2 The Gift: Glove and Panty Pick Up

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3.5.3. Virus Alerts

3.5.3.1 Pen Pal Greeting

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3.5.3.2 Win a Holiday

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3.5.3.3 Join the Crew

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3.5.4. Good Deeds

3.5.4.1 “Let your light shine.”

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3.5.4.2 Christmas Shoes

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3.5.5. Urban Legends

3.5.5.1 Spunkball

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3.5.5.2 Sweet Revenge: Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe

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3.5.5.3 Exploding Whale

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3.5.5.4 Casino Elevator

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3.5.5.5 Men in Black

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3.5.6. Religious Legends

3.5.6.1 Packages

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3.5.6.2 The Ultimate Mormon Urban Legend

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3.5.7. Character Legends

3.5.7.1 Dalton Gang Legend

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3.6. Jokes

3.6.1 No Huns, No Writs, No Eros, and Nun Left on Base (Folder 8)

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3.6.2 Oakland Raiders and the Bosnian Quarterback

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3.6.3 Microsoft Dinner

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3.6.4 Mormon Barbie

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3.6.5 Ski Jokes – (Sonny Bono)

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3.6.6 Memo from Santa

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3.6.7 Hot for You

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3.6.8 Swedes in Chinese

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3.6.9 A Real Woman

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3.6.10 Office Jokes – New Policies

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3.6.11 Bar Jokes – Guessing Occupations

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3.6.12 Stumpy and Martha

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3.6.13 Convertible Joke

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3.6.14 Northern Girl to Southern Girl

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3.6.15 The difference between men and women.

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3.6.16 Science

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3.6.17 Maybe, Maybe Not

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3.7. Proverbs

3.7.1 Fooling the Devil (Folder 9)

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3.0. Miscellaneous

3.0.1 Linguistics Breakthrough – Hebonics (Folder 10)

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3.0.2 Living in the 80's

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