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He went there, he knocked on the door, he said "A room, Madame", she said to him "No room".
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He said "Oh Miss, I'm Catholic!"
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(laughter)
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
What were you saying, Mrs.Khoury? Tell me.
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
So like she said, there were 3 men who went out to sell, and going out to work.
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Two were Catholic, and one was Roman (Catholic).
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
They were defeated. Each house they went to, "No room, no room!"
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
He told her, these ones are Catholic. They told him, "Look my friend, how about you stay outside. Maybe this woman knows who Roman Catholics are by looking at them."
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
So he stayed outside, and then by chance he knocked on another door and asked "You got room?"
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
"Yes! Come on! I got room."
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
He went to his friends he said "I can't believe it! They know who Roman Catholics are just by looking at them!"
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(laughter)
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Is this true Mrs. Khoury? That's true?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Yes!! Yeah!
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Yes, it's true!
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(overlapping voices)
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Where-where, where-- excuse me, where did you hear these stories?
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
From where did you hear it, this story, Mrs.Khoury?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
We had book, I had book, it was full of jokes about the Arabs.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Here in America?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Where's the book?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Ah--I lost it.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
They used to write books about--?
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Somebody--somebody maybe, who, you know, knows how to write.
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
I had a book this thick, full of Arab jokes, and what the Arabs were doing
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
In America?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
You don't know the book's name, or anything?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Oh, no! A magazine, a magazine, like a magazine.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Like a magazine?
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
Yeah.
{SPEAKER name="Background"}
It's a pamphlet.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Oh, my god, I'm looking for these things!
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
I--I wish I had it!
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{SPEAKER name="Mrs.Khoury"}
If I find it, I'll let you see it.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Please! Well-well, I'll stop this right now--
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Go ahead, what were you saying?
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
She had a story too!
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Uh--you know, when they go out and want to buy--you know, eggs (in arabic), eggs, they didn't know how to ask for them.
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So they'd just look around, but they wouldn't find them.
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So then, they'd start cackling, you know, cackling like a hen.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Did they understand them?
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Yes, they understood them!
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Say ah-ah-ah-ah!
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Yeah!
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(laughter)
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
You had one!
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Yeah. One man said--
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Transcription Notes:
First interviewee and last interviewee not identified. Interviewer is Dr. Alixa Naff. Context for joke in the beginning: 'room' is how rome (inferring roman catholic) is pronounced in Arabic. When the woman told the Arab man, 'no room', he interpreted it as her asking if he's roman catholic, and implying that he's not allowed in if he is. So the man proclaimed that he is catholic, not roman catholic. If a Lebanese speaker believes this may be innacurate, then please correct.