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Jokes and Targets
 
by
Christie Davies

Jokes and Targets

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Jokes and Targets takes up an appealing and entertaining topic--the social and historical origins of jokes about familiar targets such as rustics, Jewish spouses, used car salesmen, and dumb blondes. Christie Davies explains why political jokes flourished in the Soviet Union, why Europeans tell jokes about American lawyers but not about their own lawyers, and why sex jokes...more
Hardcover, 328 pages
Published May 23rd 2011 by Indiana University Press (first published April 22nd 2011)
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