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Worst Date, Kate, Zachary Grant Bess

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Me: “What is the worst date you’ve ever been on?”

[Not skipping a beat] Ryker: “OH. Easy. Junior Ball. Her parents drove, we did not get dinner, I had to live off the winter mints they have on the table, and like the water…like you know at high school. You go to a high school dance and they have the little ‘Lifesaver Wintermint’ I had to live off of those and water, and a to-go box out of my friend’s trunk. [laughing] it was from his date, because of course THEY went to dinner.”

[interjecting] ME: Wait why did you …

Punchbuggy, Shannon Parks

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So, Slug bug then. Learned it from my dad, and it’s an ongoing thing. There was no official start, there is no end. Everyone out east that I knew called it punchbuggy. Rules are that when you see a Volkswagen bug, you can hit someone and yell “slug bug.” Each bug is only used once. After that, you cannot, nor can anyone else, use that bug as an excuse to hit anyone. The exception is if the bug disappears from sight. If the bug disappears from sight it can be used again by anyone. This typically required the agreement of …

Sigep Sweetheart, Kelsey Lund

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Angel:

Of all the girls of college years

There’s one that I love most

For he she wears the golden heart

For her, I sing this song

My Sigma Phi Epsilon Sweetheart

Wonderful SigEp Girl

True as the heart that you’re wearing

You send my hear in a whirl

Violets and roses,

My heart discloses

Say that you love me too

My Sigma Phi Epsilon Sweetheart

Wonderful SigEp Shelby.

Daggerman Song, Kelsey Lund

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Shelby: Ready? Ok.

Daggerman

Daggerman

You bring sunshine to us all on a cloudy day

And [when} the rain starts to fall

[stomps twice]

When you go away

You are

Hard working

Fun loving

To Kappa Deltas

Kappa Delta loves you

Daggerman

Daggerman

As the years go by and your far away

Never forget

The times

That you spent with KayDee

That you spent with KayDee

That you spent with KayDee!

Futurama Fry/Not Sure If”, Melissa Herrera

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Winter Carnival Road Flares, Shannon Parks

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The Night Extravaganza is a display of daring, unusual stunts that typically leave spectators in awe. However, young children cannot be trusted to safely handle any pyrotechnics and instead are given glowsticks that are taped onto their bodies. At the age of 10 years old, children make the transition from beginner skiers to the competitive team. This transition is marked at Winter Carnival where the 10-year-old are entrusted to carry road flares down the mountain with the older kids, rather than glow sticks with the younger. The first time that I got to carry the flares it was terrifying to …

Patty In The Chapter Room, Kelsey Lund

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Lauren M: One time the door was, um, the, what is it called? The acti-

Me: Chapter room?

LM: Yea! The chapter room door was locked

Lauren R: Yea both of them. After we opened the ritual closet both of them were locked and somebody was knocking on the other side of the chapter room door.

LM: And nobody was in there! I don’t remember the knocking part.

Me: Did that happen to you Lauren [speaking to Lauren R]?

LR: Yea, I was over at the house.

LM: It was weird!

LR: And they went to go do ritual stuff …

"Sunday Dinner At Home", Alexis Robb

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I think it’s fun to meet every Sunday, your mom always makes good food, we get to spend some time together and play fun games, I think it’s great. I also love it because I win most of the time with our games. [Laughs] No, its just good to have that one day a week where we can all be together as a family and I love it.

Giant Orange Head, Tanner Perkes

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There's two friends in high school and they're really close but after graduation they go their separate ways. And then they meet up again and he sees this one friend driving in this beautiful sports car and then he's got this giant orange head and he's like, 'Woah, dude! What's changed since I've seen you last? What's going on with your life?' And he's like, 'Well, you're not going to believe this but I found a magical lamp with genie in it and he gave me three wishes. So, the first thing I wished for was a beautiful wife, and …

Mom's Pregnant?, Courtney Muse

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I’m the youngest of 5 kids, by a long shot, so I’m an oops baby. So when my mom got pregnant with me, well when she found out she was pregnant, my parents were separated so she didn’t really want to tell a whole lot of people that she was pregnant. And my oldest sister is 18 years older than I am so she graduated from high school the year that I was born, my birthday is July 24^th. So my brother is 15 years older than I am, he was 15 at the time and all of …

Don't Be Bbad, Tanner Perkes

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Don’t be BBAD… No boobs, no butts, no alcohol, no drugs.

Class Bombing, Tanner Perkes

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What I do is when I make copies, and I make a lot of copies, I was in the habit of saving the punches, you know where you punch it- when you three-hole punch it so, uh, because I had kids put stuff in binders. So I ended up with a large collection of the holes from the three-hole punches. And then I would start- I would go to the copy center and I would collect theirs out of the copy machines. So I had this large bowl full of those little dots. And, uh, I don’t know, I just …

Bike And Duck Joke, Tanner Perkes

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Zach: What does a bike have in common with a duck?

Me: What?

Zach: They both have handle bars, except for the duck.

"T-Shirt Quilt", Alexis Robb

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My mom made me this blanket about 10 years ago. She made it from shirts that I had obviously out grown. It is special to me because it reminds me of all the sports and activities I did as a kid, and it shows my sense of humor on some of the shirts.

"Christmas Sleepover Tradition", Alexis Robb

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I think it was funner as a child because your all sleeping under the tree but than as I got older its like oh my back [ Grabs her back and laughs] but I like it though its fun just to get together and sleep together, especially when we were younger. I remember all the tantrums of you and Brandon not getting to sleep where you wanted to. Good times.

Patty In Kappa Delta, Kelsey Lund

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Me: Ok, so, one of the questions I have is about the ghost. That lives in KD? What’s her name? What’s the story?

Lauren: The ghost’s name is Patty. And I lived there for a year and, uh there’s a lot of stories about Patty? And, um I’ve heard a lot of things? And I like, I mean while I lived there was things that happened that were weird um, but they weren’t like so crazy weird that we wanted to invite like ghost adventurers there or anything but like. So um, let’s see. One of my favorite stories that …

The Matching Sweatpants Story, Tiffany Carlton

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So, my friend Ashley’s sister’s friend, who is a girl, was going on a first date with a guy. For the date, the guy picked her up and they went to a popular hiking trail that had a gift shop at the head of the trail. So before they even start the hike the guy is feeling uncomfortable because, well because he needed to fart. Farting isn’t the best thing to do on your first date with a girl. But he really had to fart so we slowly let it out, or at least he tried to. You see it …

Dark Humor Joke, Tiffany Carlton

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Dark Humor is like food,

Not everyone gets it.

The Wall Joke, Tiffany Carlton

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What do Pink Floyd and Princess Diana have in common?

The Wall was their last greatest hit.

Cookie Day, Carrigan Price

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Cookie Day is a day that we- my current family- we spend a Saturday, one of the Saturdays in December, and um we get up early in the morning and we make cookies. We make all different kinds of cookies. We make chocolate chip cookies, we make sugar cookies, sometimes we make shortbread, cookies that are shaped like candy canes, we make fudge, we make sometimes, some years we make different things, we made cream puffs one year, we make star-shaped Rice Krispy treats, we make muffins, one of the things we’ve added recently is we do chocolate-dipped pretzels, and …

Clock Riddle, Mayah Reaveley

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Ashton: What has hands but can’t clap?

Me: A clock.

Ashton: Yeah.

Christmas Eve Spaghetti Feast, Carrigan Price

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Every year on Christmas Eve my whole family gets together. So, my mom’s side of the family, um, and we get together and we always have spaghetti on Christmas Eve, like my grandma always makes spaghetti. And then after that, we all open, like, our pajamas, and I know that pajamas are pretty typical but I’ve heard spaghetti is kind of weird. And it’s a tradition that’s just been passed down- like my grandma’s mom did it, and her mom did it, and it’s like, really traveled down the family line so. It’s just something that we always do. Even …

Edward Snowden Joke, Tiffany Carlton

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Why didn’t the CIA arrest Edward Snowden?

Well, because he was snowed in.

Thanksgiving Monopoly Night, Carrigan Price

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We go to my Grandma Judy’s house and we eat stuffing and more pie and then everybody goes home except for the cousins that are 12 to 18, well 12 to 20 and we play a game of Monopoly that sometimes goes until 5 in the morning! And we just go until somebody wins the game. We play the board game and play house rules. We do it individually so like there’s no teams and one person is the banker and one person gives out the properties and everybody else just takes care of their piece. After we finish, we …

Mayha, Mayah Reaveley

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Me: Where does my nickname come from?

My mom: Well, your nickname is Mayha, and, that all originated one Christmas when my grandma, who was your great-grandmother, was writing all of the grandchildren, great- grandchildren’s names on paper bags, um...which was basically the gift wrap for Christmas presents that year. And when we got your bag, it said M-a-y-h-a [spelled out], where your name is actually pronounced – spelled, M-a-y-a-h [spelled out]. So instead of Mayah she had spelled Mayha, and we just that it was so funny that we continued to call you Mayha ever since, and, I don’t …

Donald Trump Joke, Tiffany Carlton

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Donald Trump is our President

4th Of July Parade, Carrigan Price

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The night before [the 4^th of July] we go and put down blankets for the rest of our family and then we go and usually arrive at 8 o’clock and the parade starts at like 10- oh we put the blankets on the sidewalk on the parade route- and we usually put down a lot because all of our extended family comes, and my dad usually goes and gets McDonalds breakfast sandwiches and that’s what we eat while we wait for the parade to start- or get to us. Sometimes we have siblings or cousins in the parade. It’s …

Drying Towel, Mayah Reaveley

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Me: What gets more wet as it dries?

My mom: [long pause] I don’t know, what does get more wet as it dries?

Me: A towel.

My mom: [laughs]

"Shooting A Black Bear In My Underwear", Alexis Robb

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While hunting in Alaska we were abruptly woken up in the morning, just as the sun was starting to come up, barely light enough to see, by something outside of our tent in our camp getting into our stuff, so upon getting up grabbing my riffle, stepping outside of the tent still with one foot in the tent and one foot out of the tent standing there in my underwear, I shot a black bear who had come into our camp and was ravaging through our camp.

"Grandpa Christensen- Horse Riding In Church", Alexis Robb

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So, legend has it, my grandpa Christensen when he was a teenager about 15 or 16 years old, that on a dare from a bunch of his friends while they were out riding horses in the small town of Neola, Utah, [ A little distracted, begins this part again.] that on a dare he rode his horse through the chapel on Sunday during church, and then rode it back out again, and that story has been confirmed by several old people who lived in the town of Neola.