Scope and Contents note Bagley collected embarrassing date stories, suggesting that they are told for three reasons: entertainment, letting us know we're not alone, and to serve as a pressure release valve. Included are stories of a returned missionary accidentally asking a fifteen year old on a date, a girl stuffing her dress with tissue paper to make herself more busty and having it fall out, and a man getting a girl's sweater stuck in his fly as he zipped up his pants in a movie theater. The project was written...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Marilyn McEwan for her Spring 1972 English 391 class. About Marilyn McEwan's mother being an active passer of tradition, and the traditions that she shares. Includes a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstract and informant items. Items include songs like "just Plain Folks", "I don't want to play in your yard", parodies such as "I wear my pink pajamas", "kimona", "Jesus once was a little child", and more, as well as proverbial sayings such as "Cry on...

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Pagan collected stories about the influence Role Playing Games have on the players and how the player became involved in RPG. Included in the interviews are how the person began playing role playing games, how much time they spent playing the games, the different games and their appeal. Project was created for Dr. Rudy's English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Verhaaren collected family recipes and interviewed informants about the recipes' importance. Included are recipes with no back-story, recipes with traditions associated, and recipes with specific personal narratives associated with them. Project was collected for an English 391 class taught by Dr. Eliason at Brigham Young University in 2001.

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Myers interviewed and collected stories from women and men about women in the workplace. Included are jokes told by men about women and housework, women questioning mens' work capabilities, and discussion of gender roles. The project was written for a folklore class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

Scope and Contents note Describes a specific tradition in the author's family: yearly attendance of the Rose parade in California on New Year's Day. Explains several aspects of the tradition, including reserving a spot using lines drawn with flour on Thanksgiving weekend, New Year's Eve celebration at the reserved spot on the parade route, and teenage boys in the family being allowed to stay overnight on the parade route when they are old enough. Mentions rites of passage. Discusses how family traditions get...

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Stories about dating in high school in Provo, Utah. Included are how gentlemen ask for dates, as well as how the girls reject or accept the invitation in a creative way. Project was created for an English 368 taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Amy McClean collected personal narratives of rumors involving teachers. Included are rumors falling into the categories of physical body, employment requirements beyond the norm, eccentric trains, monetary status, and romantic to immoral. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1989.

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Submitted by BYU student Matthew Heiss for his Winter 1983 English 392 class. About the stories of the pranks under mission presdient Saager. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include mission folksongs of the tricksters, mission rituals, comic relief, trickster vacations, triumph of the trickster, trickster backfire, and going home rituals.

Scope and Contents note Summers compiled stories of practical jokes played by missionaries, and discussed the reasons why practical joking is so popular with missionaries. Included are stories of missionaries making a district leader's car smell of cigarette smoke, an elder making his companion's shower cold, and an elder tricking his sleeping companion into saying the closing prayer during a lull in testimony meeting. The project was written for Kristi Bell's English 391 class, taught at Brigham Young University...