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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Graffiti
Harps play soul music.
Submitter comment:
Graffiti was scratched on desk top with ink pen.
Found in room 201 of the Science building, third desk, fourth row [University of Detroit].
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Room 201 of Science building
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Prose
God didn't create the world in seven days--he goofed around for six days, then pulled an all-nighter.
--signed Ben
Submitter comment:
Found on desk top in University of Detroit Library
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Envelope Graffiti
Stamp out postage meters
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Entry filtered.
Paid Political Denouncement
George Wallace is Rosemary's Baby
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are brothers.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROCHESTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Entry filtered.
If one were to leave where would one go?
Submitter comment:
Graffiti on lavatory wall
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
There was once a man who prayed to God . . and he died.
Submitter comment:
Graffiti on lavatory wall
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
The perfect symbol of today's gracious living is a lady in a mini-sheath dress trying to sit down in a contemporary-design chair with a buffet dinner in her hands.
Submitter comment:
Graffiti
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; University of Detroit residence halls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Confucius say:
Man who fall under steamroller spread himself a little thin.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; University of Detroit residence halls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Santa Claus runs a fly-by-night operation.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; University of Detroit residence halls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Entry filtered.
Graffito
2 Nice
+2 Be
4 Got 10
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS ; informant's home ; 550 Saddle Lane
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffito
2 Young
+2 Go
4 Boys
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname and place of residence.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS ; informant's home
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffito
2 Nice
+2 Be
4 gotten
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname and place of residence.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS ; informant's home
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
As a parting thought, always remember that no matter where you go, there you are.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; University of Detroit residence halls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
I dreampt I conquered the world in my Erin Go Braugh.
(This is a parody on a magazine ad for brassieres which goes: "I dreamt I conquered the world in my Maidenform bra.")
Submitter comment:
Told to me in informant's romm--she gets them from desks in the University of Detroit Library.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY ; informant's dorm room
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffito
Loneliness is the great equalizer of all men.
Submitter comment:
Found graffiti in Detroit, Michigan.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
God didn't really create the world in seven days. He fooled around for six days and pulled an all-nighter.
Submitter comment:
Someone wrote this in the library stacks.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: Library stacks
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffito
Acid is not a way to escape reality, it is a way of life.
Submitter comment:
Graffito found in Detroit, Michigan.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |