Davies, "The English Mother-in-Law Joke and its Missing Relatives" The English Mother-in-Law Joke and its Missing Relatives Christie Davies* Abstract Mother-in-law jokes, like many other kinds of joke, stem from a male perception of an incongruity in the social order....
The second focus has been my Mum-in-law’s traditional cooking. She has many hand-written notebooks where she writes down all the recipes that she collects. And one such notebook is her ‘Diary of Pickles’. I call this diary the Mother of all Pickles, or rather Mother (in-law) of...
As they are in spite of slight changes the same proverb, they ought either to be put down together or references ought to be made from one to the other, as Captain Carr has tried to do in his collection of Telugu proverbs. If this is not done, they cannot but give the inexperienced ...