Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales / / Roger Welsch ; foreword by Dick Cavett.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lincoln : : University of Nebraska Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Table of 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.