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Caught
Three men: a Catholic, Jew and Protestant; were digging a ditch in front of a house of inequity. They looked up and saw the Rabbi coming down the street. The Rabbi stopped in front of the house, looked both ways and ran up the steps. When this happened the Catholic and Protestant really gave it to the Jew. A little later, the Protestant minister came down the street, stopped in front of the house, looked both ways and ran up the steps. Well now it was the Protestant's turn to be razzed. A little later the three saw a Catholic priest walk up to the front of the house, look both ways and run up the steps. The Catholic man yelled "There must be somebody sick in there!"
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Watson, Hugh
Keyword(s): ALLUSION TO PROSTITUTION ; Catholic ; HUMOR ; Jewish ; JOKE ; PROSTITUTION ; Protestant ; RELIGION
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
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A Joke
Informant told me that it is a standing joke among the Jewish people he knows that no two Jews can agree on anything except on what the third Jew should give.
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The word Jewish is written in the upper left hand corner of the submission.
The original BN's [A566, B660] have the lightest ink mark running through them. It may be that they were crossed out, or it may simply be a very light, very faint pen mark.
Submission card located in a pile marked To Be Classified.
Where learned: TELEPHONE ; Stewart, Patrick A ; TOLD BY
Keyword(s): ETHNIC JOKE ; HUMOR ; Jewish ; JOKE ; Stereotype
James Callow Keyword(s): Jewish
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Superstition
Point at a shooting star or even speak of it and you lose your next wish.
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Origina BN's [P600.880, P800, P880] crossed out and replaced with current classifications.
Where learned: SCHOOL ; Shaw, Virginia
Keyword(s): ASTROLOGY ; ASTRONOMY ; BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; GESTURE ; jinx ; Point ; SPEAKING TABU ; SUPERSTITION ; TABU ; WISH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Comet BELIEF -- Prayer SPEECH -- Gesture |
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Ethnic Joke: Jewish
Irishman, Scotchman and Jew visiting dead friend in funeral parlor. Sign on dead man's chest says, "I'd like to take some money with me when I go." Irishman puts out $500. So does the Scotchman. Jew writes a $1500 check and takes the $1000 as change.
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Original BN [B66] crossed out
Submission card located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Parks, William ; Collection
Keyword(s): AFTERLIFE ; BURIAL ; Dead ; Distasteful ; ETHNIC ; Funeral ; Irish ; Jewish ; JOKE ; MONEY ; Offensive ; Penny-pincher ; SCOTTISH ; Stereotype
James Callow Keyword(s): Jewish
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
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Ethnic Joke: Misc.
One fellow advising another to buy Fisher Price Toy MFG.Co. stock, because they were planning to marker a new item that was expected to go great. It was a boxed jigsaw puzzle made expressly for (Poles, or Italians, or Irish, etc.) with instructions which would eliminate any confusion by saying "open either end."
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Submission located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Parks, William ; Collection
Keyword(s): BUSINESS ; Entertainments ; ETHNIC ; GAMES ; Investment ; Italian ; Jewish ; Mockery ; POLISH ; RIDICULE ; Stereotype ; Stock
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
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Ethnic Joke: Jewish
Descriptions of a Jewish Christmas Card: on the front it has a tree, and strung from the tree, instead of the usually bulbs [sic], it has 32 colored Matzo Balls, and on the top, instead of the star of Bethlehem, it has a Jewish star, not the star adavin [sic], but a picture of Sammy Davis Jr. or Liz Taylor, you can take your pick.
Submitter comment:
Sammy Davis Jr. and Liz Taylor are Jewish movie stars.
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I believe that adavin is supposed to be "of David."
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Submission card located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; Udkoff, Ted ; 14070 Green Briar ; OAK PARK
Keyword(s): CHRISTMAS ; Decoration ; Distasteful ; ETHNIC ; Hollywood ; HUMOR ; Jewish ; JOKES ; Offensive ; Stereotype ; Tree
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Custom/Belief
You should make a wish when you enter a church for the first time.
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Informant revealed this custom when the new parish church was built several years ago.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS ; Schutza, Gertrude R
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CHURCH ; CUSTOM ; RELIGION ; WISH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church |
Belief: Animal
White Horse:
make a wish, and it will come true if you see a white horse.
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Original BN [P800] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; Kosiorek, Regina ; ERIE
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; BELIEF ; COLOR ; Equine ; HORSE ; LUCK ; SUPERSTITION ; White ; WISH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal |
Toast
May you be in Heaven a half an hour before the Devil knows your dead.
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Well Wish
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Called a Toast by others.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; Gibbons, Mary Clare
Keyword(s): DEATH ; DEVIL ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; HEAVEN ; Irish ; Social ; TIME ; TOAST ; Well Wish
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
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Toast
Here's to the world as round as a wheel
That all must feel,
If this life were a thing that you could buy,
The Jews would all live while the Irish would die.
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Where learned: HOME ; Carson, Lawrence
Keyword(s): Buy ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; Irish ; Jewish ; LIFE ; MONEY ; Purchase ; Social ; Stereotype ; TOAST ; Wheel
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
MAY YOUR LUCK BE AS LONG AS A RABBIT'S EARS, SORROW AS SHORT AS HIS TAIL.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Ear ; EARS ; LUCK ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Rabbit ; SORROW ; Tail ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): WISH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance P880.3 |
Date learned: 06-09-1944
Proverb
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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Where learned: Hickey, Michael A
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Beg ; Beggar ; HORSE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; WISH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Custom: Holiday
ON CHRISTMAS EVE EACH MEMBER OF THE FAMILY LIGHTS A BAYBERRY
CANDLE AND THEN MAKES A WISH. IF THE CANDLES ARE ALLOWED TO
BURN TO THE ENDS THEN THE WISH WILL COME TRUE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A CUSTOM CARRIED OUT IN THE INFORMANT'S FAMILY FOR
SEVERAL GENERATIONS.
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Updated and Motifs added / 02-28-2011 / TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE ; 1001 CADIEUX
Keyword(s): Bayberry ; Candle ; CUSTOM ; FAMILY ; Herb ; holiday ; PLANT ; RELIGION ; RELIGIOUS ; SYMBOL ; WISH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve F122.2 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Lights and candles |
Proverb
If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Ronald Meynek ; 4357 Parkinson
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Beggar ; HORSE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Ride ; VERSE ; WISH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Submitter comment:
From - Uncertain
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Original Bn [V300] crossed out. Replacedw tih current classification
Where learned: Whittlesey, Mary Ann
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Beggars ; HORSES ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; WISHES
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
If wishes were horses all beggars would ride
Submitter comment:
Informant heard this from his grandmother
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Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Ackley, Maurice
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Beggar ; HORSE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; WISH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Wedding Custom
Wedding Custom:
At Jewish weddings there is a practice of the bride and groom smashing their champagne glass againsst the floor during the ceremony to symbolize that marriage sometimes involves disorder and discontent.
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Keyword(s): CEREMONY ; Cultural ; Culture ; DISCONTENT ; Disorder ; GLASS ; Jewish ; MARRIAGE ; Practice ; RELIGION ; Smash ; SYMBOL ; Symbolic ; Symbolize ; tradition ; WEDDING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
Language: Rhyme
I wish you luck
I wish you joy.
I wish you first a baby boy
And when his hair begins to curl
I wish you then a baby girl.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BABY ; Boy ; Curl ; Girl ; HAIR ; Language ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE ; WISH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Irish Blessing
An Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
And Grains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
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Leave-Talking?
Too long, so not included.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19479 WOODBINE ; Harrington, Mrs John ; Harrington, Nora
Keyword(s): BLESSING ; Culture ; God ; Grain ; Irish ; Road ; TRAVEL ; VERSE ; Well Wishes ; Wind
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Toast
Nazdravlje
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Where learned: HUNGARY ; Gratz, Anna ; 1897
Keyword(s): DRINK ; Hungary ; Language Serbian ; TOAST ; Well Wishes
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |