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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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PROVERB

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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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BELIEF

LIGHTNING INDICATES THAT GOD IS STRIKING BACK.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): RETRIBUTION PUNISHMENT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Creator
BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder
BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7

Date learned: 09-30-1965

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TELEPHONE PRANK

CALLER: DO YOU HAVE SIR WALTER RALEUGH IN A CAN?
ANSWERER: (WHO CAN WORK IN A STORE) YES.
CALLER: WELL THEN LET HIM OUT.

Submitter comment:

INFORMANT HAS DONE THIS WITH FRIENDS

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LINCOLN PARK

James Callow Keyword(s): PUN ; SLANG: "CAN" FOR TOILET."

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion

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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 ENGINE SMOKES AND PUFFS BUT DOESN'T CHEW.

Submitter comment: THIS IS A PLAY ON WORDS AND PERSONIFIES AN ENGINE.
I HEARD IT A LONG TIME AGO AT A PARTY. THIS IS USED AS A RETORT
RATHER THAN A RIDDLE. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS, I KNOW OF AN ENGINE
THAT SMOKES...

Where learned: DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; PUN ; TOBACCO

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 10-03-1971

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PROVERB AND PUN

EVEN A BALD MILLIONAIRE HAS SEVERAL HEIRS.

Data entry tech comment: THE USE OF THE WORD "EVEN" AS THAT OF AN INTENSIVE TO STRESS
IDENTITY OR THE COMPARATIVE DEGREE OF WORTH OF THE SUBJECT, I.E.,
EVEN A FISH, EVEN A CHILD, ETC.

Where learned: DETROIT

Keyword(s): PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 10-17-1968

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A JEST

EVERY FAMILY TREE HAS ITS SAP.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN

Keyword(s): PLANT ; PUN

James Callow Keyword(s): HEREDITY ; OBSERVATION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 07-00-1964

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PROVERBIAL METAPHOR

NONE ARE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO CAN'T SEE

James Callow Keyword(s): IRONY ; OBSERVATION ; PUN ; STUBBORNNESS

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 11-00-1968

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WELLERISM-- SWIFTIE

NO NO YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY OF MY LOBSTER, HE SAID SHELLFISHLY

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): PUN ; SHELLFISH

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation

Date learned: 10-00-1968

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OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN MAKE GOOD SOUP

Submitter comment: SAID IN REFERENCE TO CHAPERONES

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): AGE ; CANNIBALISM ; PUN--ON WORD "MAKE"

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
PROVERB -- Blason Populaire

Date learned: 04-00-1968

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WELLERISM

ONLY A FOOL WOULD USE LSD, SAID TOM ACIDLY

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): DRUG: L.S.D., REFERRED TO AS ACID

James Callow Keyword(s): PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation

Date learned: 02-00-1971

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WELLERISM

"ONLY SEVEN MORE DAYS," DICK SAID, WEEKLY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

Keyword(s): PUN

James Callow Keyword(s): NUMBERS

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation

Date learned: 01-00-1972

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WELLERISM

OURS WAS THE GROUP THAT HAD 35% MORE CAVITIES
HE SAID CRESTFALLEN.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

James Callow Keyword(s): "CREST" IS THE BRAND NAME OF TOOTHPASTE WHICH ; PUN

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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PROVERBIAL METAPHOR

A PARTNERSHIP IS A POOR SHIP TO SAIL ON

Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; SCRANTON

Keyword(s): PUN

James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE ; FUNCTION ; OBSERVATION ; REVERSAL

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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A PERSON ENTERS A BAR OPTIMISTICALLY AND LEAVES MISTY OPTICALLY

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM

Keyword(s): PUN ; SEMANTICS

James Callow Keyword(s): ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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