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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: GIRL WHO FLY IN AIRPLANE UPSIDE DOWN HAVE CRACK UP.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): SEX

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
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Date learned: 00-00-1960

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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: GIRL WHO FLY AIRPLANE UPSIDE DOWN HAVE CRACK UP.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUDENDUM ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
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Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: GIRL WHO HAVE RED HAIR HAVE RED HAIR BY CRACKY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): COLOR

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUDENDUM ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
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Date learned: 00-00-1960

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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: HE WHO FEED LEMONS TO CAT HAVE SOUR-PUSS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; FOOD

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00-00-1967

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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: HE WHO LIE LIKE RAT SOON CAUGHT IN OWN MOUTH-TRAP.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; PUN

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00-00-1967

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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: HE WHO SIT ON HOT STOVE, SOON RISES TO
GREAT HEIGHTS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 04-00-1968

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CONFUCIUS SAY: KOTEX NOT BEST THING ON EARTH, BUT NEXT TO IT.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

Keyword(s): HUMAN BODY

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUDENDUM ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
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Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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PROVERB

CONFUCIUS SAY: LADY WHO DANCE WITH INVISIBLE MAN NOT KNOW WHAT SHE
UP AGAINST.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): SEX

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00-00-1967

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PROVERB

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CONFUCIUS SAY: LADY WHO SWALLOW FLOOR-POLISH HAVE FINE FINISH.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): SCATALOGICAL

James Callow Keyword(s): PARODY ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00-00-1967

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CONFUCIUS SAY: LAY GIRL IN STRAWBERRY PATCH, GET SELF IN JAM.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

Keyword(s): FOOD ; PUN ; SEX

James Callow Keyword(s): ELLIPSIS ; PARODY ; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
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Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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PROVERB

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

Keyword(s): PARODY

James Callow Keyword(s): SEX ; SLANG: PIECE FOR SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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POLISH BELIEF

GDY CHTLOP TRAWE KOSI, LADA BABA DESZCZ UPROSI.
GDY CHTLOP TRAWE KOSI, LADA BABA DESCZ REPROSI.
WHEN A MAN CUTS HIS GRASS, THE WOMAN BEGS FOR RAIN.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): RHYME (IN POLISH) ; SEXISM ; TRANSLATION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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POLISH PROVERB

EACH MAN IS THE BLACKSMITH OF HIS OWN HAPPINESS.
(POLISH) CZTAEVIEK JEST KOWALEM SWEGO SZCZESCIA.

Submitter comment: MY GRANDMOTHER KNOWS THIS FROM POLAND.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN

James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; TRANSLATION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 11-21-1967

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POLISH PROVERB

EACH ONE KNOWS BEST WHERE HIS SHOE HURTS HIM.
(POLISH) KAZDY WIE NAJLEPIEJ, GAZIE GO TRZEWIK CISNIE.

Submitter comment: THIS IS USED TO POINT OUT THAT NO ONE KNOWS ANOTHERS PROBLEMS AS
WELL AS THAT PERSON HIMSELF. I KNOW THIS FROM HOME.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN

Keyword(s): CLOTHING

James Callow Keyword(s): CLOTHING ; OBSERVATION ; TRANSLATION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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PROVERB

THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; BIRD

James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL ; ZEAL

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 11-00-1968

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CUSTOM

EAT PORK AND LIVE OFF THE FAT OF THE LAND--EAT CHICKEN AND SCRATCH
THE REST OF THE YEAR.

Submitter comment: IN IRELAND NEW YEARS SAYING.

Where learned: DETROIT

Keyword(s): FOOD ; SUPERSTITION

James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE ; ADVICE: POSITIVE ; HOMEOPATHIC ; OBSERVATION

Subject headings: Observation
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 11-30-1972

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PROVERB

ELEPHANTS, PINK, ARE THE BEASTS OF BOURBON.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM, ASSUMED

Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; COLOR ; PUN

James Callow Keyword(s): ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ; COLOR

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 10-10-1965

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PROVERBIAL METAPHOR

AN EMPTY BARREL MAKES THE MOST NOISE.

Submitter comment: FROM HER SOUTHERN GRANDMOTHER FOR SOMEONE WHO TALKS TOO MUCH.

Data entry tech comment: VARIANT

Where learned: DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): BOASTING ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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PROVERB

AN EMPTY SACK CAN'T STAND STRAIGHT.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

James Callow Keyword(s): BOASTING ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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PROVERB

AN EMPTY WAGON RATTLES MOST.

Submitter comment: SOURCE NOT REMEMBERED.

Where learned: HOME

James Callow Keyword(s): BOASTING? ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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