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RIDDLE QUESTION
RAILROAD CROSSING, WATCH OUT FOR THE CARS.
HOW CAN YOU SPELL IT, WITHOUT ANY R'S?
I-T
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): SPELLING
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-17-1969
RIDDLE QUESTION
HOW DO YOU SPELL HARD WATER IN THREE LETTERS?
ICE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): SPELLING
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-17-1969
( ALPHABET ) RIDDLE QUESTION
WHAT TWO LETTERS MAKE AN INDIAN TENT?
T P ( TEPEE )
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): SPELLING
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: UNKNOWN
MEMORY
REMEMBER M
REMEMBER E
PUT THEM TOGETHER
AND REMEMBER ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP ; RHYME: AABA ; SPELLING RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
LIMERICK
ONE NIGHT A YOUNG AMOROUS SIOUX
HAD A DATE WITH A MAIDEN HE KNIOUX
THE CORONER LATER FOUND
THAT THE COUPLE HAD DROWNED
PADDLING A LEAKY CANIOUX
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; CACOGRAPHY ; CANOE ; DEATH ; FRENCH SPELLING ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; TRANSLATIONS, PLAY ON WORDS, SYMBOL WRITING (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
2 GOOD
+ 2 BE
__________
4 GOTTEN
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): DIGITAL SPELLING ; INITIAL ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
GAME
THE OBJECT OF THIS THINKING GAME IS TO GUESS WHY TILLY WILLIS
LIKES CERTAIN THINGS AND NOT OTHERS. THE PERSON WHO IS EXPLAINING
THE GAME BEGINS BY SAYING, TILLY WILLIS IS ODD AND QUEER BUT NOT
PECULISR. SHE LOVES APPLES BUT HATES PEACHES.
SHE LOVES GREEN BUT SHE HATES RED. THE PERSON CONTINUES TO
GIVE LOVE AND HATE EXAMPLES UNTIL ONE OF THE PLAYERS
RESPONDS WITH WHAT HE THINKS TILLY WILLIS LOVES OR HATES.
THE CLUE TO THE GAME IS IN THE OPENING LINE.
TILLY WILLIS ODD AND QUEER ARE ALL WORDS CONTAINING DOUBLE LETTERS.
THE PLAYER WHO GUESSES THAT TILLY LOVES EVERYTHING
SPELLED WITH A DOUBLE LETTER, IS THE WINNER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
James Callow Keyword(s): ALTERNATE TITLE: THE QUEEN ; SPELLING
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Mental Activity |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
PROSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL
U R
2 SWEET
2 BE
4 GOTTEN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DIGITAL SPELLING ; FRIENDSHIP ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
O-I-C
I'M IN A 10DER MOOD TODAY
AND FEEL POETIC 2
4 FUN I'LL JUST -- OFF A LINE
AND SEND IT OFF 2 U.
I'M SORRY U HAVE BEEN 6 SO LONG
DON'T BE DISCONSOL8
BUT BEAR YOUR ILLS WITH 42DE
AND THEY WON'T SEEM SO GR8.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DIGITAL SPELLING QUATRAIN ILLNESS ; RHYME: ABCB ; SICK
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
MNEMONIC DEVICE
ARITHMETIC: "A RAT IN THE HOUSE MAY EAT THE ICE CREAM."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Sterling Heights
James Callow Keyword(s): SPELLING
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
AUTOGRAPH BOOK
REMEMBER M,
REMEMBER E
BUT MOST OF ALL
REMEMBER ME.
Submitter comment: SAW THIS IN AUTOGRAPH BOOKS IN FERNDALE, MICHIGAN
Data entry tech comment: LINES HAVE BEEN DIVIDED BY THE KEYPUNCHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): COMMAND ; FRIENDLY ; QUATRAIN ; SPELLING RHYME
James Callow Keyword(s): INCREMENTAL REPETITION ; METER: IAMBS ; REMEMBRANCE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 12-04-1967
REMEMBER M
REMEMBER E
BUT MOST OF ALL
REMEMBER ME.
Where learned: NONE GIVEN
Keyword(s): COMMAND ; FRIENDLY ; METER: IAMBS ; QUATRAIN ; REMEMBRANCE ; REPETITION ; RHYME: ABCB ; SPELLING RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
RIDDLE
IN WHAT WAY ARE THE LETTER A AND NOON THE SAME?
THEY BOTH ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF DAY.
Where learned: NEW YORK CITY ; NEW YORK
James Callow Keyword(s): SPELLING ; WORD
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- True Riddle |
Date learned: 05-00-1990
Baby Belief
Babies born with "outtie" (a navel that sticks out) navels will
have good luck.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
James Callow Keyword(s): outie -- variant spelling?
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 03-00-1992
ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, YOUNGSTERS GREET RELATIVES WITH:
SUB HECK BULL HI, THENIS SPA HAEIA.
THEY GET PAID FOR THIS HOLIDAY GREETING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): NOT TOO SURE OF THE SPELLING, DUE TO SLOPPY PRINTING.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
THE LAIRD OF LENOX
A VERY THIN MAN WITH WHITE, SIGHTLESS EYES, RED SKINNED,
AND DRESSED IN STUART-TARTAN, EKED OUT A LIVING BY
BLOWING ON A BIG TIN WHISTLE. NOBODY EVER KNEW THE
TUNES THAT THE "LAIRD" PLAYED, BUT ALWAYS BEFORE
BEGINNING HIS RECITAL, HE WOULD REMARK: "WHO GAVE
ME THIS LONESOME WHISTLE?" "AH, I MIND NOO! THE
LAIRD OF LENNOX."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MUSICIAN, FLUTE BLIND MAN STUART: ALTERNATE SPELLING: STEWART
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being |
Date learned: 01-28-1971
SPELL STOP THREE TIMES. NOW WHAT DO YOU DO AT A GREEN TRAFFIC
SIGNAL? MOST PEOPLE WILL ANSWER STOP RATHER THAN THE CORRECT
ANSWER OF GO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SPELLING
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-1971
SPELL PLOP. WHAT DO YOU DO AT A GREEN LIGHT?
THE ONE ANSWERING ALMOST INVARIBLY ANSWERE STOP, AFTER SPELLING
PLOP. SAME PRINCIPLE FOLLOWS WITH JOKE. WHAT'S THE WHITE OF
AN EGG?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
Keyword(s): SPELLING
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-29-1971
Mnemonic Device
When one is having problems spelling the word arithmetic, just remember the sentence: "A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream."
Submitter comment:
Informant's teacher told this to him when he was in third grade in 1956 at St. Francis D'Assisi School in Detroit, MI.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
BN V300 used due to previous entries/classifications using the same mnemonic device.
James Callow comment:
Mnemonic Device; Spelling
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Arithmetic ; MATHEMATICS ; MEMORY ; MNEMONIC ; SCHOOL ; SPELLING
James Callow Keyword(s): Mnemonic Device ; SPELLING
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |