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VOCABULARY

A HOLE IN AN OVERCAST IS CALLED A "SUCKER HOLE."

Submitter comment: YOU DON'T WANT TO GET ON TOP IF YOU CAN'T GET BACK DOWN WITHIN THE
LAW.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR

Keyword(s): FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR USE THIS TERM.

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group

Date learned: 11-00-1971

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Autograph Verse

Album Rhyme:

Yours till butter flies

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

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

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SUPERSTITION PERTAINING TO WOMEN AND CHICKEN

A WOMAN MUST NOT EAT CHICKEN LEST HER CHILDREN BECOME
FLIGHTY HEARTED LIKE THE BIRDS. THIS ABSTINENCE IS REQUIRED
THROUGHOUT HER ENTIRE LIFE NOT JUST DURING PREGNANCY.

Submitter comment:

THE SUPERSTITION IS PROPER TO THE BATOORO TRIBE OF ABOUT
100,000 PEOPLE IN UGANDA. THE SUPERSTITION IS DYING OUT
WITH INCREASED EDUCATION.

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Updated by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Tinkasimire, Br Joseph

Keyword(s): Batooro Tribe ; BEHAVIOR ; Chicken ; CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Consume ; Eat ; Fetus ; Flighty ; FOOD ; MOTHER ; PREGNANCY ; SUPERSTITION ; Uganda ; Woman

James Callow Keyword(s): AFRICA ; ANIMAL ; HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC ; SEXISM

Subject headings: Daily Life
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222.
Food Drink -- Meat Bird Poultry

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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