Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales

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Summary: Filthy ,fall'in down funny.
Review: After the kids were snug in their sleeping bags and tents, their parents would pop the corks on their favorite brews and this collection of dirty, one-pager, country stories was passed from person to person around the campfire and read aloud. People would literally fall over, roaring with laughter, gasping for breadth. And often,the reader was paralized with laughter and couldnt continue. The stories are red neck filthy and funny beyond words. I didnt get the cultural relevance, I was too busy laughing. Not for the politically correct.

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Summary: Excellent old American humor! Hold the belly laugh!
Review: Excellent old American humor! Taken from supposedly real stories from the Ozarks, and the surrounding areas. Keep a Kleenex close by, because you will laugh till tears come to your eyes.

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Summary: Excellent old American humor! Hold the belly laugh!
Review: Excellent old American humor! Taken from supposedly real stories from the Ozarks, and the surrounding areas. Keep a Kleenex close by, because you will laugh till tears come to your eyes.

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Summary: I Laughed So Hard!
Review: I took a strange but ultimately interesting course in American Folklore back at good old MWC. Our Professor made us read this book, and I can never thank him enough. I am still not sure what the purpose of us reading this book was, but the stories were hilarious. I laughed so much reading these stories. Many of which were simply extended dirty jokes. This was by far the best book I read at college. I don't know much about Folklore, but at the very least if you want to read a funny book, get pissing in the snow.

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Summary: I Laughed So Hard!
Review: I took a strange but ultimately interesting course in American Folklore back at good old MWC. Our Professor made us read this book, and I can never thank him enough. I am still not sure what the purpose of us reading this book was, but the stories were hilarious. I laughed so much reading these stories. Many of which were simply extended dirty jokes. This was by far the best book I read at college. I don't know much about Folklore, but at the very least if you want to read a funny book, get pissing in the snow.

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Summary: This book is a fantastic collection of Ozark Folktales
Review: The book is an easy enjoyable read. It certainly has some truths to it, that although humorous, really make one wonder if some of the stories are true to the letter. Aside from that, "Pissing in the Snow" gave me a few hours of giggle time. Great for layovers at the airport.

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Summary: To much truth!
Review: The book is an easy enjoyable read. It certainly has some truths to it, that although humorous, really make one wonder if some of the stories are true to the letter. Aside from that, "Pissing in the Snow" gave me a few hours of giggle time. Great for layovers at the airport.

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Summary: This book is a fantastic collection of Ozark Folktales
Review: This book is a great collection of Ozark Folktales and stories. I wouldn't recomend reading this book to a 10 year old because of the content of some of the stories, but I would recomend this book to the older reader who would appreciate the wit and humor.

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Summary: Insight into your grandfather's idea of rural humor!
Review: This book was a supplemental text for an anthropology class I took at Arkansas College, Batesville, AR. in the late '70's. My grandfather grew up in the Oklahoma territory in the early days of this century and traveled quite a bit. He'd heard variants on many of the bawdy stories in the book, and relayed the stories as he knew them to me. I still have copies of this book in paperback,and I try to buy them as I find them since I have friends who always enjoy having a copy for themselves. I went to college with people who lived in the areas where these stories are told to this day, and the places and some family names are familiar to them.

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Summary: Insight into your grandfather's idea of rural humor!
Review: When I first read this book 20 years ago, I had no idea that this type of material (dirty jokes, to be precise) constituted folklore or any other basis for serious study. I merely thought that it was a guilty entertainment. You might imagine my delight to find that in addition to some very funny, albeit very crude and crass, stories, there was a thoughtful, intellectual critical introduction and a series of short annotations after each nasty excerpt, including thematic code numbers under the Stith Thompson indexing system. I simply can't recommend this book to highly for anyone with earthy tastes, but an aspiration toward the higher and more thoughtful aspects of the vulgar. Also, it's very reasonably priced, compared to the other works in the genre.