ESTONIAN DROODLES

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Question: Which house does this laundry belong to?
Answer: To the one on the left side, because the tenants of the right one are dead.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 25, 305 (14)
Location: Vln Viljandi 4. Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: cross
Question: How can a gaffer get to know, whether a gammer is dead or alive?
Answer: There is a cross on the window.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 183 (2)
Location: Kuu, Loksa Loksa Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: cross
Question: Laundry of which house?
Answer: Of the right, on the left there is a cross on the window, everyone is dead.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 5, 430 (11)
Location: Kuu, Loksa Loksa Kk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: cross
Question: Which one is going to die first, a gaffer or a gammer?
Answer: The gammer because she has a cross on the window.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 87 (3)
Location: Trt Tartu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: cross
Question: These are two windows, the windows of two neighbours. And this is a clothesline. Who’s laundry is this?
Answer: The laundry belongs to this neighbour who doesn’t have a cross in front of the window, the neighbour with a window with a cross is dead.
Archive reference: EFA I 15, 38 (5)
Location: Mar
Date: 1996
Subject: cross