Date Collected
Fall 11-28-2017
Place item was collected
North Logan
Informant
Stephen Lee
Point of Discovery/Informant Bio
Informant: Stephen Lee is my father. He was born in Hyrum, Utah. He is 51 years old and he currently resides in North Logan, Utah. He works as a chemist on Utah State University Campus
Context
Context: My father told me this joke in our living room. It was a response to my question, “What joke do you remember most from your childhood?”
Text
Text: What’s green and bumpy and lives at the bottom of the ocean? Moby Pickle
Texture
Texture: Stephen told this joke with almost no expression in his voice. He had clearly heard it so many times that anything he though was funny about it has faded
Course
Engl 2210/ Intro to Folklore Studies
Instructor
McNeill
Semester and year
Fall 2017
Theme
G4: Jokes
EAD Number
3.10.3.11
Recommended Citation
Lee, Thomas, "Moby Pickle Joke" (2017). USU Student Folklore Fieldwork. Paper 196.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/student_folklore_all/196