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CHOP UP AN ASPIRIN AND PUT IT IN THE GROUND WITH THE SEED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): PLANTING CUSTOM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 11-02-1971
TRICK OF THE TRADE
AT A & P, WE SPRINKLE WATER ON THE FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
FOR A TWOFOLD PURPOSE. THE WATER MAKES THE FRUIT AND
VEGETABLES LOOK FRESHER AS WELL AS ADDING WEIGHT TO THEM.
WHEN THE CASHIER WEIGHS THEM THE WEIGHT IS BLOATED BY THE WATER.
THE EFFECT IS AN INCREASE IN PRICE FOR THE CONSUMER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; A&P FOOD STORE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business Food Drink -- Plant food |
Date learned: 00-00-1977
SHOPPER MYTH
MANY TIMES WHILE AT WORK I NOTICE THAT SHOPPERS WITH FEW ITEMS
WILL ALMOST ALWAYS STAND IN THE EIGHT ITEMS OR LESS LANE.
MANY TIMES THIS LANE IS MUCH LONGER THAN SOME OF THE OTHER
CHECK OUT LANES. I HAVE TO DIRECT THEM TO THE LESSER SOMETIMES
EMPTY LANES.
WHEN I ASK THEM WHY THEY WERE WAITING IN THE LONG LINES THEIR
REPLY IS THAT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS MANDATORY FOR THEM TO STAND
IN THE SPEEDY CHECK OUT LANE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; A&P FOOD STORE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 00-00-1977
LYRIC
"TODAY'S THE DAY WE GIVE BABIES AWAY
WITH EVERY POUND OF TEA.
IF YOU KNOW ANY LADIES,
WHO WANT ANY BABIES,
JUST SEND THEM AROUND TO ME".
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PONTIAC
James Callow Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME (SLANT) ; SLANT RHYME
Date learned: 00-00-1975
FIRST DOLLAR EARNED IN A BUSINNES
IN EVERY CUBAN OR LATIN STORE IT IS ACCUSTOMED TO DISPLAY THE FIRST
DOLLAR BILL EARNED IN A PLACE SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE IT.
Where learned: PUERTO RICO ; CUBA
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
MOTTO USED BY MANAGEMENT AT MCDONALD'S RESTAURANT
IF THERE'S TIME TO LEAN, THERE'S TIME TO CLEAN.
Where learned: HOME ; CHUCK RUSSMAN
James Callow Keyword(s): SLOGAN ; WORK REST BREAK
Date learned: 04-02-1968
IN GERMANY MY MOM AND DAD SHOPPED AT A LOCAL BUTCHER. LATER MY MOM
FOUND OUT HE GOT SOME OF HIS MEAT FROM HUMANS. MY MOM WOULD NOT
EAT MEAT FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TROY
James Callow Keyword(s): CANNIBALISM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business Food Drink -- Meat BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
WHEN YOU ARE SHUCKING CORN, AND FIND AN EAR THAT IS RED, GIVE IT TO
THE BOY YOU LOVE AND HE WILL HAVE TO GIVE YOU A KISS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Color SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00-00-1975
NEVER ENTERTAIN OR TALK BUSINESS IN THE KITCHEN - ALWAYS IN THE
LIVING ROOM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BERKELEY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Home CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
IN EUROPE, NO PREGNANT WOMEN WERE ALLOWED IN A BREWERY BECAUSE THEY
WERE BELIEVED TO SPOIL THE BEER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): SEXISM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business Food Drink -- Alcoholic beverage Fermented BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 02-17-1980
GOOD LUCK IN RESTAURANTS
ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, A NEW ONE DOLLAR BILL IS PLACED
ON THE WALL OF THE RESTAURANT. IT REMAINS ON THE
WALL UNTIL THE NEXT YEAR, WHEN A NEW ONE DOLLAR
BILL IS PUT UP.
Submitter comment:
BY DOING THIS, THE RESTAURANT WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK
ALL YEAR, AS WELL AS GOOD BUSINESS. GOOD FOOD AND
GOOD SERVICE WILL PREVAIL ALL YEAR ROUND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; EAST DETROIT
THERE WAS THIS OLD ACCOUNTANT, WHO IN COMING TO WORK,
WOULD OPEN UP HIS DESK, LOOK AT A PIECE OF PAPER,
THEN LOCK IT UP AGAIN. HE DID THIS EVERY DAY,
AND EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE OFFICE WAS WONDERING
WHAT WAS IN IT. WELL THE OLD GUY FINALLY DIED,
SO THE OTHERS IN THE OFFICE BROKE OPEN THE
DRAWER AND TOOK OUT THE PIECE OF PAPER. IT
READ: "DEBITS-LEFT; CREDITS-RIGHT."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
INDIAN STORY
IT SEEMS AN INDIAN WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A GREAT MEMORY
SO MUCH SO THAT HIS FAME HAD SPREAD. ONE DAY, HE
CAME INTO A RESTAURANT AND ORDERED A COUPLE OF EGGS.
JUST THEN THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE INDIAN WAS
INJURED, TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, AND WAS RELEASED.
WAR BROKE OUT AND HE WAS DRAFTED, SERVED IN THE PACIFIC,
AND EVENTUALLY AFTER SEVERAL YEARS, WAS DISCHARGED.
SO AFTER ABOUT TEN YEARS, HE AGAIN WALKS INTO A
RESTAURANT AND THE SAME PROPRIETOR WAITS ON HIM.
JOKINGLY, THE PROPRIETOR, NOT RECOGNIZING HIM, SAYS,
"HOW!" THE INDIAN REPLIED, "SCRAMBLED."
Submitter comment:
I HAVE HEARD THIS STORY SO OFTEN OVER A PERIOD OF
YEARS THAT I NO LONGER HAVE ANY IDEA WHO TOLD IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Man CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
MORRIS WAS STATIONED ON AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND IT WAS
THE NORMAL PRACTICE FOR EVERYONE ON BOARD TO TRY
THEIR BEST TO GET DRUNK ON THEIR DAILY RATION OF TWO
BEERS. TO DO THIS, THEY USED TO GO UP ON THE TOP
DECK OF THE SHIP, WHERE THE TEMPERATURE OFTEN
REACHED 105 DEGREES, LAY DOWN IN THE HOT SUN, AND
DRINK THE BEER THROUGH STRAWS. IT WORKED FOR HIM
EVERY TIME.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 05-12-1965
REFUSE MONEY?
THE INFORMANT THINKS THAT IT IS RATHER ODD, THE WAY
THAT BARTENDERS REFUSE PENNIES IN THE DETROIT AREA.
THE BARTENDERS AT THE MORE EXPENSIVE BARS SEE TO IT
THAT ALL DRINKS SEEM TO ROUND OFF EVENLY, TAX
INCLUDED, SO THAT THEY WON'T HAVE TO HANDLE PENNIES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 03-15-1967
CPA TRADITION
MY INFORMANT REMINDED ME THAT IT IS TRADITIONAL FOR
CPAS (CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS) TO WEAR HATS,
DARK SUITS, AND CARRY BRIEF CASES. BECAUSE HE
REFUSES TO WEAR A HAT, MY INFORMANT SAID, HE NEVER
BECAME A CPA. (I SUSPECT OTHERS REASONS, TOO).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 02-19-1965
CPA TRADITION
FURTHER SUBSTANTIATION FOR THE CPA TRADITION OF
WEARING HATS, DARK SUITS AND CARRYING BRIEF CASES:
I VISITED A FRIEND OF MINE, MRS. STANLEY SIDICK,
AT HER HOME IN DEARBORN HEIGHTS (MICHIGAN). WHEN I
ASKED WHERE HER (HUSBAND) WAS WORKING, SHE INFORMED
THAT HE WAS STILL WITH A CPA FIRM IN THE DOWNTOWN
DETROIT AREA. SHE SEEMED VERY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT
HE LOOKED VERY HANDSOME IN THE "UNIFORM" OF THE CPA--
HAT (WITH THIS SHE FLICKED THE TOP OF HER FOREHEAD),
DARK SUIT, AND (WITH A CARRYING MOTION) A BRIEF
CASE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 05-00-1965
TABLE HOPPING FORBIDDEN
THE INFORMANT TOLD ME THAT THE LAST TIME THAT HE WAS
IN SARNIA, CANADA, THAT THE BARS HAD A LAW AGAINST
MOVING FROM TABLE TO TABLE WITH A DRINK. IT IS ALL
RIGHT TO HAVE THE WAITRESS MOVE THE DRINK FOR THE
PERSON OR TO FINISH THE DRINK, MOVE TO ANOTHER
TABLE AND BUY ANOTHER DRINK, BUT NOT TO MOVE WITH
A DRINK FROM ONE TABLE TO ANOTHER. THE INFORMANT
BELIEVES THAT THIS PRACTICE HAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH THE LARGE NUMBER OF INDIANS WHO VISIT THE BARS.
Data entry tech comment: I THOUGHT IT HAD TO DO WITH SOLICITING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 03-15-1967
FILL THE GLASS FULL
THE INFORMANT REPORTS THAT IT IS A CUSTOM IN THE OLDER
BARS IN THE CITY OF DETROIT (MICHIGAN) TO FILL A GLASS
FROM ONLY ONE BOTTLE. IF THE BARTENDER CANNOT FILL
THE GLASS WITH ONE BOTTLE, SAY IF THE THE BOTTLE RUNS
OUT, THEN THE CUSTOMER GETS A FREE DRINK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 03-15-1967
MARKET PRACTICE
THE INFORMANT SAID THAT IT IS A PRACTICE FOR THE
FARMERS AT EASTERN MARKET IN DETROIT (MICHIGAN),
NOT TO SPLIT THE ODD BASKET OF FRUIT. THEY RATHER
THROW FINGERS TO SEE WHO WINS IT. (ROCKS, PAPER
& SCISSORS (GAME)).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 03-15-1967