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POLITICAL COMMENT

END L.B.J.'S WAR OF OPPRESSION AGAINST VIET NAM!
(FOOTNOTE) SOME PEOPLE USE "OPPRESSION" LIKE THIS TO
COVER UP THEIR INHERENT COWARDICE.

Submitter comment: SEEN IN A PHONE BOOTH IN THE STUDENT UNION.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

Date learned: 04-10-1967

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PHILOSOPHICAL WISH

WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WAR AND NOBODY CAME.

Submitter comment: SEEN IN A PHONE BOOTH IN UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT STUDENT
UNION.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

Date learned: 04-10-1967

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IRISH FOLK TALE

ONE EVENING A MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN WERE COMING HOME
FROM THE STORE. THEY WERE ALMOST HOME WHEN THEY SAW
A NEIGHBOR'S CHILD RUN ACROSS THE STREET. THIS
FRIGHTENED THEM BECAUSE THE CHILD WAS VERY YOUNG--TOO
YOUNG TO BE WALKING AND TOO YOUNG TO BE OUT SO LATE
AT NIGHT. ON ARRIVING HOME, THEY HEARD FROM ONE OF
THE MEN OF THE VILLAGE THAT THIS PARTICULAR CHILD
THAT THEY HAD SEEN RUNNING ACROSS THE ROAD HAD DIED
AT THE EXACT TIME THAT THEY HAD SEEN HIM IN THE ROAD.

Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT HEARD THIS TALE JUST A SHORT TIME AGO
FROM A GIRL AT WORK, AN IRISH GIRL WHO HAS JUST
BECOME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN. THE GIRL SAYS THE
STORY IS TRUE. SHE HEARD IT FROM A JOHN ROARTY OF
LETTERHENNY, IRELAND, COUNTY DONIGAL.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Tale

Date learned: 01-10-1964

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THE GREATEST COOK

SPANISH: GRAN COCINERA ES EL HAMBRE.
TRANSLATION: THE GREATEST COOK IS HUNGER.
OR, HUNGER IS THE GREATEST COOK.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Keyword(s): PERSONIFICATION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 03-31-1970

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PROVERB

FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE A SHADOW, IT STAYS WITH YOU IN THE SUN, BUT ONCE
IT GETS DARK, IT'S NO LONGER WITH YOU.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim
PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

Date learned: 10-30-1967

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PROVERB

FIRST COME, THE BETTER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: --

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ARABIAN SAYING

HE IS LIKE A RICE PADDY, UNDER THE MUD IS WATER.

Submitter comment: COMPARING A PERSON WITH A FALSE FACADE TO A RICE PADDY, WHICH HAS A
COVERING OF MUD AND SILT OVER THE WATER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Keyword(s): DISSEMBLER HYPOCRITE DECEIVER PRETENDER IMPOSTER

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

Date learned: 10-00-1967

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CHILD'S SUPERSTITIOUS SAYING

TOUCH BLACK NO TRADES BACK.

Submitter comment: LEARNED AS A CHILD IN DETROIT

Where learned: STUDENT UNION

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

Date learned: 04-04-1967

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WISHING

WHEN YOU HAVE AN APPLE WITH A STEM IN IT,
T0IST THE STEM AND &-R EACH C-MPLETE TURN C-UNT
UNTIL THE STEM C-MES -UT. THE LAST NUMBER Y-U
SAY IS THE AMOUNT OF WISHES YOU CAN MAKE.
VARIATIONS OF THIS IS THAT THE LAST NUMBER
THAT Y-U SAY IS H-0 MANY CHILDREN Y-U ARE G-ING
TO HAVE OR HOW MANY WIVES OR HUSBANDS YOU WILL HAVE.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; 2810 ADLAKE DR ; STUDENT UNION ; TOLD AT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Prayer

Date learned: 10-05-1971

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BIRTH BELIEF

A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO IS CARRYING A NOT SO ACTIVE CHILD IS SAID
TO BE CARRYING A GIRL.

Submitter comment:

THIS WAS TOLD TO INFORMANT BY HER PARENTS, WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS
FROM PAST EXPERIENCES.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Birth

Date learned: 02-10-1971

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BIRTH BELIEF

IF A WOMAN CARRIES A BABY IN HER HIP, IT'S A GIRL.

Submitter comment:

THIS IS A BELIEF THAT WAS TOLD INFORMANT BY HER GRANDMOTHER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION ; SEX DETERMINATION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Birth

Date learned: 02-20-1971

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BIRTH

A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO IS CARRYING AN ACTIVE CHILD IS USUALLY
CARRYING A BOY.

Submitter comment:

THIS WAS TOLD TO THE INFORMANT BY HER MOTHER, WHO ACTUALLY
BELIEVES THIS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC ; PASSIVE GIRLS?

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Birth

Date learned: 02-20-1971

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Polish Wedding Custom - Song

At the end of the reception, everyone sings:

Twelve angels carrying
God's blessing from above
Twelve angels carrying
Twelve angels carrying
God's blessing from above.

This is the refrain. After all the verses, the last one is:

My dearest mother
I'm leaving you today
To live with my man
To live with my man
On this my wedding day.

 

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION ; told at work

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

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Graffiti: Ode to Grecian Urinal

As my yellow river flows
Down this china sea
I pray to god that there
is some kind of eternity.


 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

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

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Graffiti

Would you let Spiro Agnew grow in your bath tub?

 

Data entry tech comment:

It appears that informant told collector about this graffiti that he had found two years earlier in a University of Detroit lavatory.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

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

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Graffiti

Man was born to live . . . not to prepare for life.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

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

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PLANT GROWTH BELIEF

PUT BREWED COFFEE GROUNDS IN YOUR ROSES TO HELP THEM GROW.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION ; 20520 IRVINGTON

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Non-alcoholic fruit beverage Coffee
Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption
BELIEF -- Plant

Date learned: 04-06-1971

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Acca, Bucca

Aka bakka, soda cracker

Akka bakka soda cracker

Aka bakka boo

If your fater chews tobacco

He's a regular jew

Out goes the cat

Out goes the rat

Out goes you

Where learned: Told at University of Detroit Student Union

Keyword(s): Jump ; Jump ; Plain ; Seed

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

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