Title: Keystone Thursdays

General Information about Item:

• Type: Verbal Lore (Joke)
• Language: English
• Origin: United States
• Informant: FO&M Waste Management Worker (#10 informant consent form)
• Date Collected: 3/8/18

Informant Data:

• The informant has been working for the recycling and waste department in FO&M at Dartmouth for several years now. He has lived in New Hampshire his whole life and has no plans to leave.

Contextual Data:

• Responsible for collecting trash and recycling all across Dartmouth’s campus, the FO&M workers understand the waste patterns that occur day to day. Because Wednesdays are typically a night out for students, FO&M workers are left with heaps of trash bags full of Keystone Light cans on Thursdays.

Item:

• Within the folk group comprised of the informant and the other waste collectors, they joke that they need to “pack a big lunch” on Thursdays because they have to pick up overflowing dumpsters full of beer cans and other remnants from fraternity basements.

Informant’s Comments:

• “I’m glad you guys are having so much fun during the week. ”

Collector’s Comments:

• While I voiced my apologies to the informant in regards to the influx of trash during the middle of the week, the informant claims that those days make him feel young again.

Collector’s Name: Harlan Smart

Tags/Keywords:

• Verbal Lore
• Joke
• Keystone