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RIDDLE
THERE IS A GIRL IN A BUTCHER SHOP IN CINCINNATI WHO IS
6 FEET 8 INCHES TALL, HAS A 42 INCH WAIST, AND WEARS
NUMBER 12 SHOES. WHAT DOES SHE WEIGH?
-- SHE WEIGHS MEAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT COLLECTORS HOME
Keyword(s): TRANSATIVE AND INTRANSATIVE VERB MEANING "TO WEIGH."
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-0000
RIDDLE QUESTION
THERE WAS A BUTCHER IN CHICAGO THAT WAS 5 FEET 10 INCHES
TALL. HE HAD BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES. HE WORE A SIZE
16 SHIRT AND A SIZE 10 SHOE. WHAT DID HE WEIGHT?
-- MEAT - HE WAS THE BUTCHER.
Keyword(s): TRANSATIVE AND INTRANSATIVE VERB MEANING "TO WEIGH."
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-18-1968
RIDDLE
IF A BUTCHER IS 5 FEET 7 INCHES TALL AND WEARS A SIZE
10 SHOE, AND IS 34 INCHES AROUND THE WAIST, WHAT DOES
HE WEIGH?
-- MEAT
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): TRANSATIVE AND INTRANSATIVE VERB MEANING "TO WEIGH."
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 03-00-1968
CATCH QUESTION
QUESTION: IF 3 MEN ARE UNDER AN UMBRELLA, WHY DON'T ANY GET WET?
ANSWER: IT'S NOT RAINING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): RAINING (A) ; UMBRELLA (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
RIDDLE
QUESTION: HOW CAN THREE FAT LADIES FIT UNDER ONE UMBRELLA?
ANSWER: WHEN IT'S NOT RAINING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): RAINING (A) ; UMBRELLA (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-00-1965
RIDDLE
QUESTION: THERE WERE THREE FAT LADIES AND ONE TINY UMBRELLA.
WHY DIDN'T THEY GET WET?
ANSWER: BECAUSE IT WASN'T RAINING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): RAINING (A) ; UMBRELLA (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-00-1970
RIDDLE
QUESTION: THREE GIRLS WALKED TO SCHOOL UNDER ONE UMBRELLA.
WHY DIDN'T THEY GET WET?
ANSWER: IT WASN'T RAINING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): RAINING (A) ; UMBRELLA (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
RIDDLE
QUESTION: HOW CAN FOUR WOMEN STAND UNDER AN UMBRELLA WITHOUT
GETTING WET.
ANSWER: WHEN IT ISN'T RAINING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): RAINING (A) ; UMBRELLA (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR
RIDDLE
QUESTION: WHAT IS THIS FLY DOING IN MY SOUP?
ANSWER: THE BACKSTROKE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLEASANT RIDGE
Keyword(s): BACKSTROKE (A) ; FLY (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
RIDDLE
QUESTION: WHAT'S THIS FLY DOING IN MY SOUP?
ANSWER: DOING THE BACKSTROKE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BACKSTROKE (A) ; FLY (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR
Retort
Age before beauty.
Beauty was a horse.
Submitter comment:
Heard during college days
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: OHIO
Keyword(s): BEAUTY ; Black ; COMEBACK ; HORSE ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
What do you wnat? Eggs in your beer?
Submitter comment:
I heard this repeatedly when playing baseball in childhood days.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Something besides this must come first?
Usually in Singular?
Keyword(s): BEER ; COMEBACK ; Eggs ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Smart Aleck Saying:
Deaf in one ear, and can't hear in the other.
Data entry tech comment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_folklorists
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; DEAF ; Ear ; Hearing ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
A) "You dance very well."
B) "I wish I could say the same about you."
A) "Oh, you could, if you were as big a fibber as I am!"
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Retort? Double A! A gives the punch line, not B.
The original Title [Smart Aleck Saying] has been crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; DANCE ; Fibber ; INSULT ; Liar ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Betty Botta bought some butter. "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit o' better butter will but make my batter better." So she bought a bit o' butter, better than the bitter butter, made her bitter batter better. So 'twas better Betty Botta bought a bit o' better butter.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Something similar (but shorter) already typed as prose.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Jekabson, Martha ; 16765 Beech Daly ; REDFORD
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Baking ; Batter ; Butter ; COOKING ; Dearborn Heights ; GAME ; Language ; MICHIGAN ; Prose ; PUZZLE ; Redford ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): Prose ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Belief
Take a large piece of Alum and put it in your back pocket and it will cure anything.
Data entry tech comment:
Contributed to Folklore Archive; December 1967.
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; EJ Murphy ; Patient
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CURE ; DOCTOR ; Medicinal ; MINERAL ; Patient
James Callow Keyword(s): BELIEF ; MEDICINE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Warm Blood
Vivien's mother would drink warm blood from the butcher shop to prevent disease and sickness.
Data entry tech comment:
Stamped into Archive; December 1969
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Parker, Vivien
Keyword(s): BLOOD ; Butcher ; ILLNESS ; MEDICAL ; PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE ; PREVENTION ; Vampire ; Vampirism
James Callow Keyword(s): PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE ; Warm Blood
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Remedy - Animal
Whoever carries the right eye of a wolf fastened inside his right sleeve, remains free from all injury.
Where learned: INDIANA ; Boggs, Elizabeth ; VEEDERSBURG
Keyword(s): "NATURAL" REMEDY ; AMULET ; ANIMAL ; BELIEF ; CLOTHING ; CURE ; Injury ; MEDICAL ; PREVENTION ; talisman
James Callow Keyword(s): "NATURAL" REMEDY ; ANIMAL ; BELIEF ; REMEDY
| Subject headings: |
Curing Belief
Use leeches on a sick person to rid him of the illness. This takes out the diseased blood.
Submitter comment:
"Curing Belief" collected at informant's home.
Data entry tech comment:
Motif added by TRD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Zimmeth, Barbara ; 19225 STOTTER
Keyword(s): "NATURAL" REMEDY ; Bloodletting ; CURE ; ILLNESS ; Leaching ; LEECHES ; REMEDY ; REMEDY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Custom
The family of the deceased attends mass for six consecutive weeks. Each week the family brings fruit, candy, or fruit for the entire parish. At the end of the six week period an entire mass is said in memory of the deceased . The family brings wine, three large raisin breads, fruit, and boiled wheat for the parish. This is done to celebrate the first stage of the deceased's ascention into Heaven. The ritual is repeated at six months to celebrate the second stage. After a person has been dead for a period of one year, the ritual is repeated for the last time. This stage signifies that the deceased has ascended into Heaven.
Submitter comment:
Despite revisions in the Orthodox mass, this custom has been preserved. It is considered an important and beautiful ritual. This custom is so old that no one knows how it exactly originated.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Self ; 20295 Westbrook
Keyword(s): BURIAL ; CUSTOM ; DEATH ; FOOD ; Funeral ; RELIGION ; SYMBOLISM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |