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X700 Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.]
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- Blason populaire. Despiteful names used by one city for another · X681 entry
- Jokes concerning various cities · X680 entry
- Why Arabians are liars. Hermes and his wagon of lies break down in Arabia · X661 entry
- Learning the Bavarian language. A caretaker of an estate recently sold to a Bavarian sits among the swine so as to learn Bavarian · X652 entry
- Jokes on old maids · X750 entry
- X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishes · X751 entry
- The old maid in bed. On one side is a bundle of straw (her husband) and on the other a dog (her child). She gives the straw bundle a push and thereupon falls on the floor herself · X752 entry
- A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down · X753 entry