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RIDDLE QUESTION ( ALPHABET )

WHAT LETTER MAKES HONEY?
B ( BEE )

Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT ; 1448 Junction

Keyword(s): PUN

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: DATE NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR

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DUMMY, DUMMY DOO, DOO, / CATCH ME IF YOU CAN,/ I CAN RUN FASTER THAN
(NAME) CAN. (A GAME OF TAG TAKES PLACE.
THE ONE BEING CHASED CAN JUMP
AS MANY TIMES AS HE LIKES AND THE SECOND ONE MUST DO THE SAME.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME ; 1448 Junction

Keyword(s): CALL-RHYME

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-18-1971

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LEAVING

ON LEAVING THE HOUSE YOU ARE TO LEAVE BY THE SAME DOOR YOU
ENTERED THE HOUSE BY OR ELSE BAD LUCK WILL COME TO YOU.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT DOES THIS EACH TIME HE ENTERS A BUILDING. HE
ALWAYS LEAVES BY THE SAME DOOR ENTERED.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 1448 Junction

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank

Date learned: 02-28-1971

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Mnemonic Device

ARITHMETIC = A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs and BN added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original Bn [C890] crossed out.

Submission card located in pile marked [?]

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Darmanin, Adelina ; 1448 Junction

Keyword(s): Arithmetic ; MATHEMATICS ; MEMORY ; MNEMONIC ; Mnemonic Device ; SCHOOL ; SPELLING

James Callow Keyword(s): Mnemonic Device ; SPELLING

Subject headings: ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Jump-rope Rhyme

DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS, THERE SAT (NAME) AS SWEET AS A ROSE,
SHE SANG, SHE SANG, SHE SANG SO SWEET,
ALONG CAME (BOY'S NAME) AND KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK, 
HOW MANY KISSES DID SHE RECEIVE?

ONE, TWO, THREE . . . (COUNT UNTIL THE PERSON MISSES. THE LAST NUMBER IS THE AMOUNT OF KISSES THE GIRL SUPPOSEDLY GOT.)
 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname and place of residence.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME ; 1448 Junction

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-18-1971

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LEAVING

ON LEAVING THE HOUSE YOU ARE TO LEAVE BY THE SAME DOOR YOU
ENTERED THE HOUSE BY OR ELSE BAD LUCK WILL COME TO YOU.

Submitter comment:

INFORMANT DOES THIS EACH TIME HE ENTERS A BUILDING. HE
ALWAYS LEAVES BY THE SAME DOOR ENTERED.

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 1448 Junction ; Darmanin, Andrew

Keyword(s): BELIEF ; BUILDING ; Entrance ; Exit ; LUCK ; SUPERSTITION

James Callow Keyword(s): DIRECTION ; POSITION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
BELIEF -- Bad luck

Date learned: 02-28-1971

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Graffiti

To err is human--to really foul things up requires a computer.

 

Submitter comment:

Informant cannot remember source, but believes it was from one of the members of the computer center.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 1448 Junction ; COMPUTER CENTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Children Song

Oh, the boll weevil and the little black bug comes from Mexico they say,
Come all the way to Texas just a look'n for a place to stay,
Just a look'n for a home.
Just a look'n for a home.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 1448 Junction ; informant's home

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children

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Daffy Definitions--Graffiti

Dentist Office: A filling station
Diet: The penalty for exceeding the feed limit.
Mummy: An Egyptian who pressed for time.
Exit: What a person who can't write his name does.
Fire Proof: Being related to the boss.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname and place of residence.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 1448 Junction ; informant's home

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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