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MUSICAL MNEMONIC TO SEPARATE THE SPACES OF A
SHEET OF MUSIC.
FACE

Data entry tech comment: EACH SPACE IS GIVEN THE LETTERS IN THIS WORD.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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MUSICAL MNEMONIC TO SEPARATE THE LINES OF A
SHEET OF MUSIC;
EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE.

Data entry tech comment: EACH LINE IS GIVEN THE FIRST LETTER OF THIS

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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YOU WOULD BE GREAT ON STAGE; THERE IS ONE LEAVING
IN TEN MINUTES.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

Date learned: 11-27-1971

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IN THE GAME OF HEARTS, THE THIRTEEN POINT LOSS WAS
CALLED "BIG BERTHA."

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 555 Games / Pastimes / Sports

Date learned: 11-06-1971

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NEVER COMPLIMENT A CHILD ON HIS LOOKS--THE FATES MIGHT
BECOME JEALOUS OF IT.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): EVIL EYE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal
BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
BELIEF -- Bad luck
SPEECH -- Formula

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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IF SOMEONE SAYS TO YOU "I'LL SEE YOU IN CHURCH" ON SAYING
GOODBYE, IT MEANS DEATH.

Submitter comment: FROM GRANDMOTHER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial
SPEECH -- Formula

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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RELAX AND BE A FOOL WITH FOLLS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 11-00-1971

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RID UP THE TABLE.

Submitter comment: IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO THIS MEANS CLEARING OFF THE
TABLE AFTER A MEAL.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase

Date learned: 10-23-1970

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RICH AS MILK AND HONEY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

Date learned: 02-27-1971

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ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER OR OUT OF
SIGHT OUT OF MIND, BUT DEPENDS UPON WHO YOU ARE
AWAY FROM.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 11-06-1971

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FAIR EXCHANGE, NO ROBBERY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 03-00-1977

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ULSTER WILL FIGHT
AND ULSTER WILL BE RIGHT.

Submitter comment: PICKED UP WHILE IN DUBLIN LAST YEAR. WINSTON
CHURCHILL'S FATHER WAS THE ORIGINATOR.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Blason Populaire

Date learned: 11-01-1971

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GOONEY AS A MONKEY'S UNCLE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

Date learned: 11-02-1971

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MOD LIKE A RUG.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): ?

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

Date learned: 11-06-1971

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THIS END UP {ARROW POINTING DOWN}

Submitter comment: DONE AS A JOKE, SAYS COLLECTOR.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. TWO MEN WERE WALKING
ACROSS THE BRIDGE. SAID ANTONIO TO ANTHRONIO, TELL US A
STORIO. AND THE STORIO GOES AS FOLLOWS. IT WAS A DARK
AND STORMY NIGHT. TWO MEN WERE WALKING ACROSS THE
BRIDGE. SAID ANTONIO TO ANTHRONIO TELL US A STORIO.
AND THE STORIO GOES AS FOLLOWS....INFINITY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale

Date learned: 01-30-1968

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TANGLE TALK--THE MION AND THE LOUSE

WAY BACK BEFORE CROSSINGTON DELLED THE WASHWARE, A
LATE BIG GRION WAS DEEPING PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEN
BEAMING OF A DREEF STEAK, WHEN HE WAS AWAKENED BY A
MITTLE LOUSE RUNNING FRANK AND BORTH AFROSE HIS
CRACE. TOOSING HIS LEMPER, THE GRION LABBED THE MITTLE
LOUSE BY THE MUFF OF THE SCRECK AND WAS ON THE KERGE OF
VILLING HIM, MOOR LITTLE POUSE! "OH, LEASE, MR. PLION,"
MIED THE CROUSE, "IF YOU WILL ONLY GET ME LOW I FROMISE
PAITHFULLY TO REKIND YOU FOR YOUR PAYNESS." LO, THE
GRION, WHO MUST HAVE BEEN A CUB SOY BOUT IN HIS DOUNGER
YAYS, THOUGHT HE WOULD DEE HIS DAILY GOOD DOOD, SO HE
SET THE FROUSE MEE.
A COUPLE OF LEEKS WAITER, THIS VERY SAME SION GOT
NANGLED UP IN A TET AND THOUGH HE WAS THE BING OF
KEASTS, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CROS BINGBY, NO ONE
CAME TO ANSWER HIS RELLOWING BOARS.
BUT CHEAR DILDREN, PAYS THE HEAROFF: ALONG CAME THE MITTLE
LOUSE AND GNAWING THE TOPES WITH HIS REETH, FREES THE
SHION FROM HIS LACKLES. "TURN AFFAIR IS BOUT PLAY,"
MEAKES THE SQOSE, AS HE HURNED ON HIS TEEL AND HEADED
FOR BOME. NOW THE STORAL OF THIS MORY IS, SOMETIMES
OUR BLUBBLES ARE TRIG AND SOMETIMES OUR SRUBBLES
ARE TRAIL, BUT IF WE TRAD NO HUBBLES, HOW COULD BE
BLECKOGNIZE OUR RESSINGS?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale

Date learned: 01-29-1968

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JUMP TALE

MY BROTHER WAS SENT TO THE STORE FOR SOME LIVER FOR
DINNER. BUT HE PLAYED AROUND AND DID NOT GET TO THE
STORE BEFORE IT CLOSED. KNOWING HE WOULD GET CHEWED
OUT AT HOME IF HE DIDN'T RETURN WITH ANYTHING, HE WENT
TO THE CEMETERY NEARBY AND FOUND A BODY THAT HADN'T
BEEN BURIED. HE CUT THE LIVER OUT OF IT AND BROUGHT
IT HOME.
LATER THAT NIGHT, WHEN EVERYONE WAS IN BED, HE HEARD SOME
NOISES ON THE STAIRS. "WHO'S GOT MY LIVER?" THE
STAIRS CREAKED A BIT MORE. "WHO STOLE MY LIVER?"
SOMETHING WAS IN THE HALL NOW. "WHO STOLE MY LIVER?"
IT STOPPED AT THE FIRST BEDROOM. "WHO STOLE MY LIVER?"
THEN IT WENT TO THE REST. "WHO STOLE MY LIVER?"
IT FINALLY GOT TO MY BROTHER'S BEDROOM. "WHO STOLE MY
LIVER?" "YOU GOT IT!!"

Submitter comment: THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME BY MY OLDER BROTHER WHEN I
WAS QUITE SMALL, AND EASILY SCARED.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale

Date learned: 12-06-1967

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THEY DON'T SERVE BEER AT THE BALL PARK ANYMORE THIS
SEASON BECAUSE THE HOME TEAM LOST THE OPENER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

Date learned: 10-01-1968

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GHOST STORY

IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN GREECE, AN OLD MAN DIED AND IT
WAS FOUND THAT HIS GHOST WAS ROAMING THE COUNTRYSIDE.
TO DISPEL THE GHOST, A BRAVE YOUNG MAN NAMED
KAFMAN TOLD THE VILLAGERS THAT HE WOULD STAY
BY THE OLD MAN'S GRAVE TO SEE IF THE GHOST WOULD
APPEAR. KAFMAN WORE A LONG, HOODED CAPE WHICH TOUCHED
THE GROUND, AND WHEN HE KNELT, THE CAPE SPREAD AROUND
HIM. BY AND BY, HE STARTED TO IMAGINE THINGS AND
HE STABBED AT THE DARKNESS WITH HIS DAGGER AND IT
STUCK INTO THE GROUND PIERCING THE CAPE. AS KAFMAN
STARTED TO LEAVE, HE FELT THE JERK OF THE CAPE
PINNED TO THE GROUND AND DIED OF A HEART ATTACK.

Submitter comment: JAMES LEARNED THIS FROM HIS FATHER.

Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): FEAR TEST DEATH FROM FRIGHT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Stupid man or woman

Date learned: 10-10-1967

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