Folklore Student Association
2006 Amy Shuman Joke Award Entries: How many folklorists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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It depends on the context.
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Two; one to screw it in and one to defend against nay-sayers who claim
that screwing in a lightbulb is not folklore.
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One -- who takes credit for a folk artist who actually does all the work.
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One -- but the story was immediately discredited on Snopes.com.
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One -- who presents papers on his experience at AFS for the next twenty years.
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Three -- one to do it, two to argue about whether the motif best fitting the story is D813 -- "Magic object received from a fairy" or A760 -- "Stolen stars returned to the sky."
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Who needs a light bulb? I’ve got two sticks.
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Now, what exactly is folklore again?
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It depends on whether they are engineers or bricoleurs.
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It depends on whether the hot tub is full or empty, and if the occupant is a clairvoyant, a Jewish mother, a Mormon, a feminist, a doctor, a football player, a banker, a politician, a Marxist, an existentialist, a psychologist, a fisherman, NASA, a computer engineer, or a dumb blonde.
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Don't know. Socket to me.
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Number 47, number 56, and number 108.
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Is that a public sector job?! (WINNER)
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Not applicable. Said folklorist fashioned lightbulb into bong, ate bag of chips.
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An infinite number of folklorists to ponder over whether the act of lighting the room would perpetuate ontological violence to the bulb. They subsequently cry themselves to sleep with the faint hope they'll wake up as sociologists and not have to worry about such matters.
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Geriatric folklorist attempts to change bulb, recalls lightbulb joke from collection with the WPA, chuckles, craps pants. Room dark.
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One. Now gone native, the folklorist wills [fill in name of deity] to rotate the earth.
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Ten. One to change the bulb and nine to admire the old one.
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J1623.16.2.7.
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