Main Piece: (to the tune of the Barney Theme Song) “I hate you You hate me Let’s get together and kill Barney With a baseball bat and two-by-four No more purple dinosaur!” Background: The performer is a friend of mine in his early twenties. He spent his entire childhood in Long Beach, California and now… Continue Reading »
Main Body: Informant: This is one that I’m positive does not happen in my part of India, in my part of the community. I had not witnessed it until my brother got married. He was getting married and my sister-in-law was from Haryana (a northern state of India). And the wedding was in Chandigarh which… Continue Reading »
Item: Me: “So if you don’t believe it, why not go and just try it and see what happens?” Informant: “Yeah but if I’m wrong that’s going to be really shitty.” In Florida, if you see an old, beat up car driving on the freeway at night with it’s lights off, don’t flash your high… Continue Reading »
My informant showed me this game in the context of our Forms of Folklore JEP class. She claims to have learned it from her friend, a fellow second grader. She calls it “tic-tac-toe” and usually plays it at school, on the playground at recess and lunch and after school. She says it is played with… Continue Reading »
Interview with informant: “Well there’s a crazy guy in our town, supposedly. In the mall in Sterling, Virginia there was this guy who would apparently walk around with a box cutter, and he would just—walk around with a box cutter—with the blade in so you couldn’t really tell that it was a weapon. And when… Continue Reading »