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DRUNK JOKE
A DRUNK WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF A PEANUT MACHINE,
PUTTING IN DIME AFTER DIME. FINALLY, THE BARTENDER
CAME UP AND SAID, "DON'T YOU THINK YOU SHOULD QUIT?"
"WHAT," YELLED THE DRUNK, "IN THE MIDDLE OF A
WINNING STREAK?"
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
PAT AND MIKEY
TWO IMMIGRANTS, PAT AND MIKEY, CAME FROM EUROPE AND
LIVED IN THE SAME HOUSE. ONE DAY, THEY DECIDED
TO GO FOR A WALK AND CAME UPON AN AIRPORT WHICH HAD
AIRPLANE RIDES FOR $1.00. SO MIKEY WENT UP FOR A
RIDE, AND PAT STARTED WORRYING ABOUT THE KEY TO THE
HOUSE, WHICH MIKEY HAD. SO PAT BEGAN SHOUTING,
"THROW MY KEY DOWN!" THE PILOT THREW DOWN
MIKEY.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 11-18-1967
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LITTLE MORON
WHY DID THE LITTLE MORON BRING A LADDER TO CHURCH?
HE WANTED TO SEE A HIGH MASS!
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman |
Date learned: 01-29-1968
FATHER: WHY AT YOUR AGE, GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS
ALREADY A FULL-FLEDGED SURVEYOR!
SON: AND AT YOUR'S, HE WAS PRESIDENT!
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time |
Date learned: 11-20-1968
CORN
IF YOU PLANT CORN IN THE OLD OF THE MOON, IT WILL EAR OUT BETTER.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE FARMING NATURE
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE IMPLIED ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-09-1968
GRAFFITI
GOD SEES ALL
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): RELIGION NUTSHELL NARRATIVE
James Callow Keyword(s): GOD AS OMNISCENT, ALL-SEEING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Date learned: 11-18-1968
POPE PAUL'S GOT RHYTHM.
Data entry tech comment:
THIS VERSE COULD REFER TO A POPULAR SONG OR IT COULD
DEAL WITH THE METHOD OF BIRTH CONTROL UNDER THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): RELIGION PUN
James Callow Keyword(s): CATHOLICISM ; I'VE GOT RHYTHM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Date learned: 11-20-1968
COUNTING OUT
ONE POTATO, TWO POTATOES, THREE POTATOES, FOUR.
FIVE POTATOES, SIX POTATOES, SEVEN POTATOES, OR.
ALL WHO WERE GOING TO PLAY THE GAME, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE,
EXTENDED TWO FISTS INTO A CIRCLE AND ONE PERSON DID THE
COUNTING OUT. THE LAST PERSON LEFT WITH A HAND IN THE
CIRCLE WAS "IT." (FEET CAN BE COUNTED INSTEAD OF
HANDS.)
Submitter comment: NEIGHBORHOOD FORMULA
Where learned: ROYAL OAK ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NIGHT BLESSING
GOOD NIGHT
SLEEP TIGHT
WAKE UP BRIGHT
IN THE MORNING LIGHT
TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT
WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.
James Callow comment: BEGINS AS MONOMETER, SHIFTS TO DIMETER
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): RELIGION PRAYER RHYME
James Callow Keyword(s): COMMANDS INSTRUCTIONS
Date learned: 00-00-1964
BED CHARM
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN
BLESS THE BED THAT I LIE ON
FOUR CORNERS TO MY BED
FOUR ANGELS ROUND MY HEAD
ONE AT HEAD AND ONE AT FEET
AND TWO TO GUARD MY SOUL ASLEEP.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): RHYME: AABBCC PRAYER
James Callow Keyword(s): FOUR EVANGELISTS
Date learned: 00-00-1965
TEN LITTLE INDIANS
ONE LITTLE, TWO LITTLE, THREE LITTLE
INDIANS
FOUR LITTLE, FIVE LITTLE, SIX LITTLE
INDIANS
SEVEN LITTLE, EIGHT LITTLE, NINE LITTLE
INDIANS
TEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): COUNTING OUT VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750.534 |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
"READY"
APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE,
WHO'S NOT READY,
HOLLER "I"
Submitter comment: CALLED OUT BY PERSON WHO IS "IT" IN TAG.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): COUNTING OUT
James Callow Keyword(s): FRUIT ; VEGETABLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750.524 |
Date learned: 03-00-1968
TOAST
HERE'S TO LOVE AND UNITY
DARK CORNERS AND OPPORTUNIT_
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): DRINKING HUMOR
James Callow Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME ; TRIPLE RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 01-00-1971
BIRTH:
IN A LUG GET-TOGETHER, PARTY OR CELEBRATION ETC., THE GREEKS SAY THE
PREGNANT WOMAN IS SUPPOSED TO GET THE FIRST TASTE OF ALL THE FOOD
GIVEN .
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): EATING NATIONALITY
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth |
Date learned: 11-14-1969
BIRTH MARKS
IF AN EXPECTANT MOTHER CRAVES STAWBERRIES AND DOESN'T GET THEM,
THE CHILD WILL BE BORN WITH "STRAWBERRY MARKS."
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): EATING SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- P244 P244.6 BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 03-00-1970
BIRTH
PREDICTING THE DUE DATE FOR THE EXPECTED CHILD, AN INDIAN WOULD
COUNT NINE FULL MOONS TILL DUE DATE.
IN STEAD OF THE NORMAL WAY OF PREDICTING THE DUE DATE FOR THE
EXPECTED CHILD, AN INDIAN WOULD COUNT NINE FULL MOONS TILL DUE DATE.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): MEDICINE MAN
| Subject headings: | 686 Ninths / Nine Observation CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Number P686.3.9 |
Date learned: 11-18-1969
SIGNATURES
YOURS TILL THE EAR DRUMS
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): PLEDGE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
HAUNTED HOUSE
WE HAD A DOG AND AT TIMES THE DOG WOULD ACT LIKE HE SAW SOMEONE,
WHOM HE DID NOT SEE. HE WOULD BARK OR GROWL AND HIS HAIR
WOULD STAND UP. I WOULD BE SO SCARED I WOULD PUT HIM OUT SIDE.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Mammal |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
VICTORY SIGN
FLYING A BROOM FROM THE TOP OF A MAST ON A SAILBOAT TO SIGNIFY AN
OVER-ALL VICTORY IN A RACE - IN OTHER WORDS "A CLEAN SWEEP".
Submitter comment:
AN OPTIMIST SKIPPER ALWAYS CARRIES A BROOM TO A LARGE REGATTA. IF HE
DOES GET ALL FIRSTS, HE WILL FLY THIS BROOM, OR THE RACE COMMITTEE
WILL GIVE HIM ONE.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- To Be Seen |
Date learned: 12-15-1969
SYMBOLISM
THE PEACE SYMBOL, SIGNIFIES A DOVE'S FOOT TO THE ANTI-WAR ADVOCATES,
AND A CHICKEN'S FOOT TO THE "HAWKS."
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- To Be Seen |
Date learned: 00-00-1968