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Author Welsch, Roger L., author.

Title Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales / Roger Welsch ; foreword by Dick Cavett.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

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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.
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Subject Welsch, Roger L.
Welsch, Roger L. (OCoLC)fst00043165
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Folklore -- Nebraska.
Nebraska -- Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Nebraska. (OCoLC)fst01208998
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author Cavett, Dick, writer of added text.
Other Form: Print version: Welsch, Roger L. Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales 9780803284289 (DLC) 2015024784 (OCoLC)927165930
ISBN 9780803285910 (electronic bk.)
0803285914 (electronic bk.)
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