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Tongue Twister:
A tooter who tutored the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
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Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Wheeler, Kathy
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Flute ; Language ; MUSIC ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Toot ; Tutor ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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Language
Vocabulary of Prejudiced Group:
During the first moon walk, prejudiced people in Flint would chant "Coon to the Moon."
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Were they black or white or both?
All were white
sense of "coon to the moon?"
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; SOUTH QUAD ; Watkins, Dallas
Keyword(s): CHANT ; Coon ; FLINT ; Language ; MICHIGAN ; MOON ; Moonwalk ; PREJUDICE ; RACISM ; SLANG ; Space
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula Filter - Mature Content |
Proverbial Saying
Retort:
Can't come in cans; cans come in success.
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In school, 7th grade St. Theodore, SSJ, had on blackboard.
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Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Mrs WmC
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; CAN ; Can't ; Language ; Maxim ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PROVERB ; PUN ; RETORT ; SUCCESS ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
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Retort
Next day after never when two Sundays come together.
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I heard it from my father.
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Should be under Rotten Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Day ; Language ; Never ; Never ; Next ; RETORT ; RHYME ; SLANG ; Sundays
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Retort
A traditional reply to the word "hey" is "hay is for horses"
When a person, in conversation, pauses and says "well," then traditional answer is "wells are for water."
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Original BN [V400, V300, S260] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME ; Patterson, Ron
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Hay ; Hey ; HORSES ; Language ; RETORT ; SLANG ; WATER ; Well
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Retort
Do you think money grows on trees?
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Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME ; Reaume, Douglas
Keyword(s): Language ; MONEY ; RETORT ; SLANG ; Tree
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Retort
At dinner time, a parental question/statement as a result of crude behavior is "were you raised in a barn?"
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Original BN [V400, V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME ; Reaume, Shirley
Keyword(s): Barn ; Crude ; Language ; MANNERS ; Raised ; RETORT ; Rude ; Saying
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Retort
Wise Guy?
What are you? A wise guy or a truck driver?
(Question and answer given to someone who has made a wise remark.)
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Original BN [W400] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
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What's the answer?
Keyword(s): Answer ; Language ; QUESTION ; Remark ; RETORT ; SLANG ; Truck Driver ; Wise Guy
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Shor 'nuff
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Meaning "is that right?"
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Original BN [S200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
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Keyword(s): Dialect6 ; Enough ; Folk ; Language ; SLANG ; SPEECH ; Sure ; Term
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Following comment is made to someone who has insulted you:
"I resemble that remark."
The slip of the tongue is intentional.
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Sense?
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The words Tongue Twister have been crossed out.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Descamp, Ed ; Syracuse University ; Syracuse
Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Resemble ; Resent ; RETORT ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Tongue Twister
Following comment is made to someone who has insulted you. The slip of the tongue is intentional:
You're casting asparagus on my reputation.
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Not really a tongue twister, is it?
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Descamp, Ed ; Syracuse University ; Syracuse
Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Reply ; REPUTATION ; RETORT ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Is that a water proof shirt you have on?
No, Why?
That's a pisser of a tie you've got on.
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Taste?
Where learned: Kern, Donald
Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; Pisser ; RETORT ; Shirt ; SLANG ; Tease ; Tie ; Waterproof
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Toast
Nazdravlje
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Where learned: HUNGARY ; Gratz, Anna ; 1897
Keyword(s): DRINK ; Hungary ; Language Serbian ; TOAST ; Well Wishes
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Tongue Twister
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers,
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
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From Childhood
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Gwizdola, Maureen
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Language ; Peppers ; Peter ; Piper ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Tongue Twister
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers where is the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Seymour, Robert
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; Peppers ; Peter ; Piper ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Tongue Twister
Tangle Talk:
A Tutoe who tooted a flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor,
"is it harder to toot, or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
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Tongue Twister?
Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Flute ; GAME ; Language ; Tangle ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Tutor
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
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Saying
"That's Tits" means 'I definitely approve." This saying can be applied to anything animate or inanimate.
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Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Estes, John
Keyword(s): Animate ; Approval ; Approve ; Inanimate ; Language ; Saying ; SLANG ; Tits
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula Filter - Mature Content |
Saying
Pull the latch string in or let it hang out
Submitter comment:
A saying or sign coming from the pioneers indicating whether a person or a thought is welcome within.
Ran across this while reading a book called The Well Springs of Truth published in 1883 by the Nashville publishing Company. Written by W.W. Breese MD.
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Otiginal BN [V400, S500] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: BOOK ; The Well Springs of Truth ; 1883 ; Nashville Publishing Company ; Breese, W W MD
Keyword(s): Language ; Latch ; Saying ; SIGN ; SLANG ; String ; Welcome
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Language: Rhyme
Hickup Hickup go away
Come again another day
Hickup Hickup when I bake
I'll bake you a CAKE
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Pastime.
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Children sing this when they get the hiccups. Verse?
Original BN [C500, C730] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Bake ; Cake ; CHILDREN ; GAME ; HICCUP ; Hickup ; Language ; Nursery ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Verse
"Surprise" Verse:
Question: Inchme and Pinchme were walking across the bridge. Inchme fell in. Who was left?
Answer: Pinchme. (At this, the person who responded recieves a pinch.)
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Informant learned this through experience during childhood - Plymouth MI, 1940's.
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Not Verse?
Original BN [C800] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Answer ; Inch ; JOKE ; Language ; Pinch ; PRACTICAL JOKE ; QUESTION ; RHYME ; SURPRISE ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |