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Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitic Jokes and Hebredonian Jokes
2017Throughout Europe and North America Jews probably figure more frequently in jokes than any other ethnic group and there are three sources of these jokes. They are Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitic Jokes and Hebredonian Jokes. Jokes that can also be told in much the same form about, say, the Scots, the Netherlanders or the Cardis, who are not the victims of ...
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Joking remarks and joking intentions
Abstract This chapter, which focuses on joking remarks, distinguishes between two senses of ‘to joke’: to say something one believes to be false with the intent to amuse, or to say something either true or false with the intent to amuse.openaire +1 more source
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2017
ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that the rape joke is the joke par excellence. The ur-joke. Jokes speak the truth like dreams and symptoms and errors. The rape joke does not simply speak a truth—the truth about rape, or rapists—its truth is oddly the truth of joking itself and the tragicomedic vicissitudes of human sexuality.
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ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that the rape joke is the joke par excellence. The ur-joke. Jokes speak the truth like dreams and symptoms and errors. The rape joke does not simply speak a truth—the truth about rape, or rapists—its truth is oddly the truth of joking itself and the tragicomedic vicissitudes of human sexuality.
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2005
Abstract When musicians run out of stories about each other to tell at band room rap sessions, a favorite pastime is telling jokes. This is a collection of the more printable ones. Bobby Hackett enjoyed telling this story: A violinist noticed that his playing had a hypnotic effect on his audiences.
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Abstract When musicians run out of stories about each other to tell at band room rap sessions, a favorite pastime is telling jokes. This is a collection of the more printable ones. Bobby Hackett enjoyed telling this story: A violinist noticed that his playing had a hypnotic effect on his audiences.
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2019
In 1964, the Tibet Military Area Political Department Cultural Work Troupe presented its new dance work, “Laundry Song,” at the PLA’s Third All-Military Arts Festival in Beijing. Although standard accounts interpret “Laundry Song” as a celebration of Han-Tibetan and soldier-civilian harmony, the laughter sparked by some sections of its choreography ...
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In 1964, the Tibet Military Area Political Department Cultural Work Troupe presented its new dance work, “Laundry Song,” at the PLA’s Third All-Military Arts Festival in Beijing. Although standard accounts interpret “Laundry Song” as a celebration of Han-Tibetan and soldier-civilian harmony, the laughter sparked by some sections of its choreography ...
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