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Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Your's till catfish have kittens.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; CAT ; Catfish ; FISH ; Kittens ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; Witty ; WORD PLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Yours till powder puffs
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Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; PLAY ON WORDS ; Powder ; Puff ; PUN ; Signature ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Yours till the moon turns to cheese and the rats refuse to eat it.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Cheese ; Devotion ; MOON ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Rats ; Signature ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Yours till the windows have pains.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; Pains ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; VERSE ; Windows ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Yours till the kitchen sinks.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; Kitchen ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; Sink ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
I'm yours till hotdogs have pups and corn have ears.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; CORN ; Dogs ; EARS ; Hot Dogs ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Puppies ; Pups ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Yours till hairpins get seasick from riding permanent waves.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; HAIR ; Perm ; Permanent ; Pin ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; Wave ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Yours till tennis courts.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Court ; Courts ; Devotion ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; Tennis ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Yours till the Atlantic ocean wears rubber pants to keep its bottom dry.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; Atlantic ; AUTOGRAPH ; Ocean ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Rubber Pants ; SEA ; Signature ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Yours, till airplanes lay eggs.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AIRPLANES ; Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BIRDS ; Devotion ; Eggs ; HUMOR ; PUN ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Yours till Germany gets Hungary and cooks Turkey in Greece and serves it on China.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; China ; COUNTRY ; Devotion ; Germany ; Hungary ; Nations ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; Turkey ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Yours till butter flies
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; Aphorism ; AUTOGRAPH ; Butter ; Butterfly ; Devotion ; FLIES ; Flight ; Fly ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Verse;
Read And That Do
This You I You
Straight Will Love Love
Down See You Me
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Down ; Form ; LOVE ; poem ; PUN ; RHYME ; Signature ; Straight ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
riddle
Question: What's black and white and red all over?
Answer: A newspaper.
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Keyword(s): Black ; COLOR ; Homophone ; Language ; NEWSPAPER ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Read ; Red ; RIDDLE ; White ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Language
Get Lost!:
A humorous putdown which is self-explanatory: "make like a tree and leave"
Submitter comment:
This saying circulates among Mary's friends and has also caught on in our family.
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James Callow comment:
Leave-Taking?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Burt, Mary T. ; Lansing ; 2819 TULANE DR
Keyword(s): HUMOR ; INSULT ; Language ; Leave ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Tree ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Rhyme
Mary had a little lamb
The doctor had a fix
'Til Old Macdonald had a farm
Then the doctor quit.
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Where learned: Hoy, Linda
Keyword(s): DOCTOR ; Farm ; JOKE ; Lamb ; Language ; Mary ; Old MacDonald ; PLAY ON WORDS ; poem ; PUN ; RHYME ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Language: Rhyme
If you get to Heaven
'Fore I do
Punch a little hole
And pull me through
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Keyword(s): HEAVEN ; Hole ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; poem ; PUN ; RHYME ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
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Language
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
In this genre the fanciful name of the author in combination with the supposed title of the book produces a verbal irony, the import of which is most often obscene or scatalogical.
The Tiger's Revenge - Claude Balls
Hole in the Mattress - Mr. Completely
Hawaiian Romance - Komona Wanna Laiya
Russian Pastime - Ivben Jackinoff
Seventeenth Century England had something like title-author jokes. They were fake book lists with authors who were real people whom the crown was harrassing supposedly speaking on long winded topics.
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Where learned: Journal of American Folklore ; Doyle, Charles ; Title Author Jokes Now and Long Ago
Keyword(s): Author ; BOOK ; Fictional ; HUMOR ; OBSCENE ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; SCATOLOGICAL ; Title
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery Filter - Mature Content |
Riddle
What's black and white and red all over?
Variations of answers:
1) Newspaper
2) Skunk with a diaper rash
3) Penguin with a sunburn
4) Blushing zebra
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Furtwengler, Marsha
Keyword(s): Black ; Blush ; Brain Teaser ; COLOR ; Diaper Rash ; JOKE ; NEWSPAPER ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Red ; RIDDLE ; SKUNK ; Sunburn ; White ; WORDPLAY ; Zebra
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Language
after a twenty minute argument with his cousin, Jim hollored this parting statement: "Make like a tree and leave!"
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James Callow comment:
Leave-Talking?
Better-Taunt?
Original BN [C730.329] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: Cropper, James ; BOSTON ; Massachusetts
Keyword(s): Leave ; Leave Talking ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; TAUNT ; Tree ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | -- SPEECH -- Formula |