The Disgusting English Candy Drill

[Dave Monroe]

--- mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

> robinlandseadel, amidships in his post,
> quoted the following:
> > This variation is based on two German folk songs,
> > "I Have So Long Been Away From You" and "Cabbage
> > and Turnips Have Driven Me Away"
> 
> for real?
> now that right there seems to be a humorous
> juxtaposition (if that isn't something that
> should go without saying...it was on my 3rd 
> pass thru this interesting and informative post
> that I began snickering: possible gas-passing-joke)

See ...

Dundes, Alan.  Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder:
    A Study of German National Character Through
    Folklore.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published
in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of
reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust.
Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic
element in German national character, citing numerous
examples of scatological data from authentic
compilations of German folklore. The examination of
this single trait of German character is used to
demonstrate that national character exists and that
its existence is unambiguously documented by the
folklore of a nation. Dundes is of the opinion that
the use of folkloristic data minimizes subjective bias
in the study of national character, since unedited or
uncensored, it constitutes a unique way of looking at
a culture from the inside-out rather than from the
outside-in, the more typical situation of an outside
observer trying to understand a foreign culture.

http://wsupress.wayne.edu/literature/folklore/dundesllccl.htm

As in, "life is like a chicken coop ladder--short and
shitty" ...


 
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