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Language
Tongue-Twister:
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Submitter comment:
She learned it when she was growing up.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Why Verse?
Original BN [C870.570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: 9175 YORKSHIRE ; Winay, Nerina
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; BABY ; Buggy ; Bumper ; Language ; Rubber ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Saying
Out of Cite [sic]
This saying, used by young people, means that something is enjoyable, pleasing, or otherwise good. It can be paralleled with such jargon as "cool," "bad," or "mellow."
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WESTLAND
Keyword(s): Bad ; Cite ; Cool ; Era ; Jargon ; Language ; Mellow ; Nickname ; SLANG
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Verse
The Tutor:
A tutor who tooted the 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?"
Submitter comment:
Origin: Grandmother: Sarah Lipchinsky, New York City
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Verse?
Where learned: Kline, Cynthia ; Bagley School
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Flute ; Language ; MUSIC ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; Teach ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Toot ; Tutor ; Youngster
James Callow Keyword(s): TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Blue bottom trousers, buttons made of brass, loose around the ankles tight around the ass. Ask me any questions surely I won't tell, if you don't believe me you can go to WELL...hello operator give me number nine; if the line is busy give me back my dime.
Other endings might be "you look like frankenstein" or any "-ine" ending.
Submitter comment:
He learned it in school when he was about 10 or 11
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Taste? Also, Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Buterokos, Dino
Keyword(s): Blue ; Button ; Dime ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Language ; Operator ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; SONG ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Trousers ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
A tooter who tutored the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
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 |
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?
Submitter comment:
From Childhood
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
James Callow comment:
Verse?
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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James Callow comment:
Verse?
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
WHO GOT SHOTT?
A duel was lately fought by Alexander Shott and John Nott. Nott was shot and Shott was not. In this case it is better to be Shott than Nott. There was a rumor that Nott weas not shot, and Shott avows that he shot Nott, which proves either that the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or that Nott was shot.
Notwithstanding that circumstantial evidence is not always good. it may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot Nott, or as accidents with firearms are frequent it may be possible that the shot Shott shot shot Shott himself, when the whole affair would resolve itself into its original elements, and Shott would be shot and Nott would be ot. Anyway, it is hard to tell who was shot.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
James Callow comment:
Besides, what is this? A Tongue Twister?
Where learned: ALMANAC ; Langlois, A H ; Curious Duel
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Shot ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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?"
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
James Callow comment:
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 |
Tongue Twister
Nonsense TongueTwister:
Howe many knees could a negro grow if a negro could grow knees?
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
James Callow comment:
Sense? None? Ambiguous?
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL ; Nicell, Tom
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Knees ; NEGRO ; Spoof ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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Tongue Twister
I'm neither a fig plucker nor a fig plucker's son but I pluck your figs till the fig plucker comes.
Data entry tech comment:
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C730.329] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Plucker? Yes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Fig ; Language ; Plucker ; RHYME ; Saying ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech Filter - Mature Content |
THE MOTHER'S TEMPERAMENT DURING PREGNANCY WILL BE
REFLECTED IN THE CHILD'S PERSONALITY.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI ; Harris, Lela ; 263 Central
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; CHILD ; Fetus ; Mom ; MOTHER ; PERSONALITY ; PREGNANCY ; Reflection ; Temperament ; TRANSFERENCE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 06-08-1973
DRINKING A LARGE AMOUNT OF COLD WATER IMMEDIATELY AFTER
DELIVERY WILL MAKE A WOMAN'S STOMACH LARGE.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI ; Griffin, Ida ; Deovelente Road
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Child Birth ; Cold ; Consume ; Delivery ; DRINK ; Labor ; PREGNANCY ; SIZE ; STOMACH ; TEMPERATURE ; WATER
Date learned: 06-21-1973
IF YOU DREAM OF A DEATH, WEDDING IN THE FAMILY;
IF YOU DREAM OF A WEDDING, DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: Arkansas ; RUSSELLVILLE ; Chesnut, Laurelyn
Keyword(s): DEATH ; Dream ; FAMILY ; Meaning ; Opposite ; SIGN ; SYMBOL ; WEDDING
James Callow Keyword(s): CHIASMUS ; CONTRAST ; ITERATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Dreams Dreams about weddings, funerals, and other crucial moments of life |
Date learned: 10-20-1973
"THEOPHOLUS THISTLER"
THEOPHOLUS THISTLER, THE SUCCESSFUL THISTLE SIFTER,
SUCCESSFULLY SIFTED THREE THOUSAND THISTLES THROUGH THE
THICK OF HIS THUMB. IF THEOPHOLUS THISTLER, THE SUCCESSFUL
THISTLE SIFTER, SUCCESSFULLY SIFTED THREE THOUSAND THISTLES
THROUGH THE THICK OF HIS THUMB, WHERE ARE THE THREE
THOUSAND THISTLES THAT THEOPHOLUS THISTLER, THE SUCCESSFUL
THISTLE SIFTER, SUCCESSFULLY SIFTED THROUGH THE THICK OF HIS
THUMB.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; Sifter ; Thistle ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
Tongue Twister
TOMMY THRESHER THREW THREE FREE THROWS (SAY IT THREE
TIMES RAPIDLY).
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; SPEECH ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
Tongue Twister
OLD OILY AUTOS (REPEAT FIVE TIMES RAPIDLY).
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
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WHAT CONSTITUTES A POLISH FUNERAL?
TEN GARBAGE TRUCKS WITH THEIR LIGHTS ON.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Rosser, Alan
Keyword(s): ETHNIC SLUR ; Funeral ; Garbage Truck ; JOKE ; POLISH
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question Filter - Mature Content |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
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WHAT DID THE POLACK THINK AN IRISH JIG WAS?
ELLA FITZGERALD
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Teske, Tina
Keyword(s): Ella Fitzgerald ; ETHNIC SLUR ; Irish ; Jig ; POLISH
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question Filter - Mature Content |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
BREAT BIG JARS OF GREASY GRIMMY GOPHER'S GUTS
MURDILATED [sic] MONKEY'S MEAT
CONCENTRATED BIRDIES FEET
GREAT BIG JARS OF ALL PURPOSE PORPOISE PUS
AND ME WITHOUT A SPOON OR A FLAVORED STRAW.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
[sic] probably is "mutilated"
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; CHILDREN ; Funny ; GROSS ; JOKE ; MUSIC ; SONG ; Tune
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Good humor Jest |
Date learned: 09-29-1969