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MARINE CORPS
HUMP IT- MEANS YOU CARRY YOUR OWN GEAR, "YOU HUMP IT". WAS ALSO
USED TO MEAN THAT YOU HAD TO WALK SOMEWHERE. MOST FREQUENTLY THAT
SOMETHING HAD TO BE CARRIED, "HUMP A MORTAR", "HUMP A RADIO".
OPPOSED TO THIS WAS, "THE GUN WILL RIDE", OR "THAT GUY WILL RIDE".
USUALLY IF ANYTHING WAS GOING TO GET THERE, YOURSELF INCLUDED, THEN
IT HAD TO BE HUMPED.
PROBABLY HAD ITS ORIGINS IN THAT YOU HAD TO HUNCH OVER TO CARRY
WHATEVER IT WAS ON YOUR BACK.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Folk etymology |
Date learned: 09-26-1972
MARINE CORPS
MICKEY MOUSE-ANYTHING THAT HAD TO DO WITH "SPIT AND POLISH", YOUR
PERSONAL GEAR, PERSONAL APPEARANCE. A COMMON WIDELY APPLIED TERM
REFERRING TO THE POSTER BOARD SOLDIER; NEAT, PROPER AND TRIM.
READY TO PASS INSPECTION, A REAL PAIN IN THE ASS, LOT OF HOGWASH,
SOMETHING WITH NO PRACTICAL APPLICATION IN THE FIELD. ANY UNNECES-
SARY WORK, GIVEN TO KEEP BUSY. NEVER USED IN REGARDS TO CLEANING
YOUR RIFLE BECAUSE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON THAT OUT IN THE FIELD.
James Callow comment:
BY 1978 "MICKEY MOUSE" WAS BEING USED ON CAMPUS
AND ELSEWHERE TO CHARACTERIZE THINGS AS CHEAP,
LOW-GRADE.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites SPEECH -- Trade & commerce |
Date learned: 09-26-1972
MARINE CORPS
SHITTING EAGLE-A COLONEL IN THE MARINES. THERE ARE VERY FEW HIGH
RANKING OFFICERS IN THE MARINE CORPS IN COMPARISON WITH THE OTHER
SERVICES, SO A COLONEL IS REALLY BIG GUNS - HE IS GOD. WITH THE
BLINK OF AN EYE HE CAN SHIT ALL OVER YOU(PROBABLE ORIGIN), NOT THAT
HE WOULD, BUT MORE THAT HE COULD.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Trade & commerce |
Date learned: 09-26-1972
"IF YOU PUT YOUR SHOES ON A TABLE IT IS BAD LUCK, BECAUSE IT MEANS
YOUR SHOES WILL OUTLIVE YOU."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.1 |
Date learned: 10-29-1972
Christmas
IF YOU ARE A BAD CHILD, THEN AT CHRISTMAS, SANTA CLAUS WILL PUT
COAL IN YOUR STOCKING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Santa Claus |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
"EVERY DAY WE WOULD WALK DOWNTOWN TO TIEDKIES(IN TOLEDO, OHIO)
AND MEET
DAD WHERE WE'D BUY THE GROCERIES, LOOK AT THE ORGAN IN THE STORE, GO
THROUGH THE COFFEE DEPARTMENT AND SMELL ALL THE DIFFERENT SMELLS, AND
WATCH THE MAN PLAY THAT OLD ORGAN. PEOPLE WOULD NEVER THINK OF
WALKING THAT FAR NOW."
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): SINCE BURNED DOWN. ; TIEDKIES WAS A DEPARTMENT & GROCERY STORE. IT HAS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
"WE USED TO HAVE LONG TALKS AFTER WE WERE THROUGH WITH DINNER.
SOMETIMES WE WOULD TALK FOR 2 HOURS, AND THE DISHES WOULD WAIT."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Home CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
"I REMEMBER ONE THING, WE ALWAYS USED TO GET DOWN ON OUR KNEES
TOGETHER
AND SAY OUR PRAYERS AT NIGHT. THE WHOLE FAMILY. IF SOMEONE WAS
GOING OUT OR SOMETHING, WE WOULD ALL DO IT EARLY BEFORE HE LEFT."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Home |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
COAL PILE BASEBALL GAMES
"WHEN I WAS SMALL...WE USED TO GET UP AND GO EARLY AND MEET ALL OF
THE KIDS WHO COULDN'T AFFORD TO BUY TICKETS, AND WE USED TO ALL GO
DOWN TO THE FIELD WHERE THE MUD HENS (TOLEDO) WERE PLAYING, AND WE
WOULD SIT ON TOP OF THESE GREAT BIG COAL PILES AROUND THE FIELD AND
WATCH."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
HOUSE PARTIES
"WE WERE ALWAYS HAVING HOUSE PARTIES FOR ALL THE NEIGHBOR'S SPECIAL
OCCASIONS.AND EVEN MY FATHER WOULD STAY AND HELP WITH ALL THE
DECORATIONS AND THE COOKING."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
"KNOCK ON WOOD."
Submitter comment:
MRS. REESE ALWAYS ACCOMPANYS THIS SAYING WITH THE ACTION OF
KNOCKING ON THE NEAREST WOOD STRUCTURE.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
WHEN YOU WANT COMPANY TO LEAVE, WHO HAVE OVERSTAYED
THEIR WELCOME
YOU PUT A PINEAPPLE ON THE BEDPOST.
Submitter comment: APPARENTLY A WHOLE PINEAPPLE
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 11-01-1972
" I ALWAYS BURN MY OLD PALMS IN MY FIREPLACE AS WHEN I WAS SMALL"
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT BELIEVED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS CUSTOM WAS REVERENCE
FOR SACRED OR BLESSED OBJECTS, BUT THE INFORMANT WAS NOT SURE OF THE
REASON FOR USING THE FIREPLACE.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F633 F633.11 |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
A REAL TEARJERKER.
Submitter comment: USED TO DESCRIBE EMOTIONAL BOOKS OR MOVIES.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 10-29-1972
HYDE PARK
THERE WERE THESE TWO MEN WHO USED TO COME TO HYDE PARK ALL THE TIME.
ONE WAS A FUNDAMENTALIST, AND THE OTHER WAS AN ATHEIST. THE ATHEIST
ALWAYS SAID "IF THERE IS A GOD, LET HIM STRIKE ME DOWN."AND THE
FUNDAMENTALIST
SAID"YOU'D BETTER WATCH IT OR HE WILL." SO THE
FUNDAMENTALIST
GOT A GUN AND HID BEHIND A BUSH AND WHEN THE ATHEIST SAID HIS
LINE, HE SHOT HIM. BUT THE FUNDAMENTALIST THOUGHT HE KILLED HIM AND
SAID "WELL MAYBE THERE ISN'T A GOD IF HE LET ME KILL HIM."
AND AS THE
ATHEIST RECOVERED, HE SAID "MAYBE THERE IS A GOD." SO FROM THEN ON,
THEY CHANGED PLACES IN THE PARK.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious |
Date learned: 10-29-1972
FREE ADVICE IS WORTH THE PRICE
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
KEEP A PENNY IN YOUR PURSE SO THE DEVIL WON'T GET IN
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT STATED THAT THIS SAYING WAS TOLD TO HER ONE DAY BY
HER GRANDMOTHER WHEN THEY WERE SHOPPING AND SHE WENT INTO HER PURSE
TO GET SOME CHANGE AND SHE SAID "LEAVE A PENNY IN YOUR PURSE SO THE
DEVIL WON'T GET IN"
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-01-1972
THE DISAPPEARING TREE
WELL, THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A TREE OUT ON THE LAKE
UP BY 7 MILE ROAD THAT YOU CAN SEE ONLY AT NIGHTTIME. I'VE NEVER SEEN IT, BUT THEY SAID IT'S ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAKE, AND IF YOU
SHINE YOUR CAR HEADLIGHTS ON IT, IT DISAPPEARS.
Submitter comment:
Lake St. Clair off of Jefferson Road on Lake Shore Drive near 7 Mile (Moross Road).
James Callow comment:
COLLECTOR'S SPELLING CORRECTED
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 26038 State Fair
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-29-1972
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"SPADED"
"LOOK AT THAT SPADED CAR."
Submitter comment:
SPADED REFERS TO THE SLANG NAME FOR THE BLACK RACE WHO IN THE INFORM
ANT'S JUDGEMENT OVERDID THE DECORATIONS OF THAT CAR. "SPADED" WAS
USED TO DESCRIBE A CAR WHICH WAS DECORATED WITH A LOT OF CHROME AND
HOOD ORNAMENTS AND PINSTRIPPING.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula Filter - Mature Content |
Date learned: 11-01-1972
HE DRIVES LIKE SUTTER.
MR. GORSKI SAID HE USED THIS PHRASE AMONG FRIENDS WHEN BEHIND A
DRIVER WHO DROVE TOO SLOW FOR THEM. HE SAID THE NAME SUTTER CAME FROM
AN OLD MAN THEY KNEW AS KIDS, WHO ALWAYS "DROVE UNDER THE SPEED LIMIT
AND EVERY ONE MADE FUN OF HIM."
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONAL PROVERBIAL PHRASE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 11-01-1972