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August 4

Venezuelan parishes map?

Hi hi. Is there anywhere online where it is possible to find a blank locator map for parishes of Venezuela? I tried to google, but I couldn't encounter. I think the data is available in OpenStreetMaps, but I wasn't able to extract one. -- Soman (talk) 13:23, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

The closest I've found is [1]. "Venezuela parishes" is the second map listed. Mapline is a commercial map vendor, but they have a free account option you could try. Some places like that give you some small number of free maps (after which you'd pay), so you might be able to get it for free. As you're likely aware, there are 1,136 parishes. Mapping that would certainly be a chore to do by scratch; you may have to pay for it. Matt Deres (talk) 20:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

References to Curran and Farjeon

I'm going through Gershon Legman's joke books. Among the scholarly crimes committed therein is the lack of a bibliography (despite citing works within the body), so that you're kind of left hanging as to which works he was referring to. I'd like to ask about two of them:

1. A number of jokes are cited simply to "Curran, 1938". Was there a folklorist or humorist that would fit that bill? Curran is a very common surname, so I'm hoping someone can shorten the list of possibilities.
2. A humorous poem is appended with "quoting Farjeon's verse, The Sense of Humor". The Farjeon in question is presumably Eleanor Farjeon, whose quaint verses seem ripe for parody, but I don't seem to be able to find a work called The Sense of Humor. The title itself could well be a play on the original title, of course. Does anyone recognize the rhyme/meter here:

The breezes the breezes, they blow through the treeses.
They blow the chemises and through the girls kneeses.
The college boy seeses and does what he pleases.
Which causes diseases, by Jesus, by Jesus.

It certainly seems familiar. Any help for either reference would be appreciated. Matt Deres (talk) 19:56, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

I think the Farjeon is Herbert Farjeon, who is quoted in relation to dirty jokes by Stephen Potter in Sense of Humour "To the bees and the breeze and the trees, no doubt, A kitchenmaid heart responds". Potter, Stephen (1954). Sense of Humour. Max Reinhardt. pp. 10–11.

Curran is ""CURRAN, William" [pseud.]. 1938. Clean Dirt. 500 anecdotes, stories, poems, toasts, and wisecracks. Buffalo, N.Y. (At head: "Volume I," but no more published.) 256 pp., 8vo, with supplement of 5 mimeographed leaves of bawdier stories. (Copy: G. Legman.)" from online bibliography "which originally appeared in the October-December 1990 issue of Journal of American Folklore". DuncanHill (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Wow! Very well done - thank you very much! Matt Deres (talk) 13:00, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

It appears to be in amphibrachic tetrameter with internal rhymes. Don't know if there's a more specific term. AnonMoos (talk) 01:06, 5 August 2024 (UTC)