That is the title of the talk that Dr. John Oldani (students call him Dr. Jack) will give when the Sappington-Concord Historical Society holds its quarterly general membership meeting on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 7:00 pm in the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Room on the campus of Lindbergh High School , 5000 S. Lindbergh.

Dr. John Oldani, professor and author most recently of St. Lou-isms Lingo, Lore, and the Lighter Side of Life in the Gateway City, will present the program “St. Louis Folklore: Mom, Clean Underwear, and Toasted Ravioli” at the SCHS meeting on Wednesday night.

Dr. Oldani’s book will be available for purchase at the meeting. See map and driving directions to Lindbergh High School and location of meeting room.

Amazon.com says of Dr. John Oldani’s new book: St. Lou-isms: Lingo, Lore, and the Lighter Side of Life in the Gateway City, “…do you warsh your dishes and rinsh them in the zink? Do you eat mustgo for dinner? Heard about zombies in Wildwood or St. Louis Hills? Ghostly hitchhikers in Florissant? What or who is a St. Louis Hoosier? In St. Lou-isms, John (Dr. Jack) Oldani documents wholly new St. Louis folklore related to senior citizens, baby boomers, lawyers, nurses, new St. Louis vocabulary, Irish and Bosnian folklore, and even urban belief tales. Dogtown, St. Louis Hills, Valley Park, Wildwood, Ellisville, and other communities are connected through jokes, beliefs, tales, speech, lingo, graffiti, games, and other lore. St. Lou-isms decodes the lingo and traces the stories, shared by all St. Louisans. This book will keep you from being St. Louis ‘stupid’, or a few clowns short of a circus! You can live, laugh, and learn to leave a legacy!”