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"WE BURY OTHERS, WHY NOT YOU;
EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT NOW."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVERTISEMENT ; FUNERAL HOME SLOGAN?
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-19-1968
A SIGN IN FRONT OF A FUNERAL PARLOR READS:
"PLAN AHEAD--SIGN UP NOW FOR OUR LAY-A-WAY PLAN."
Submitter comment:
SORRY TO SAY, DON'T KNOW THE FUNERAL HOME, BUT
SOMWHERE IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVERTISEMENT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
ITALIAN PROVERB
SO MANY HEADS
SO MANY OPINIONS.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): DISAGREEMENT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: DATE UNKNOWN
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A POSTAGE STAMPAND A WOMAN?
ONE IS A MAIL FEE AND THE OTHER IS A FEMALE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): WOMEN
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
RIDDLE QUESTION
WHAT HAS TWO FEET ON EACH SIDE AND ONE IN THE MIDDLE?
-- A YARDSTICK!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TOLD AT COLLECTORS HOME ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-0000
RIDDLE
A MAN IS IN HIS ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND HE LOOKS OUT THE
WINDOW, TURNS AROUND AND SAYS "OH MY GOD, MY WIFE HAS
JUST BEEN KILLED." WHERE UPON THE ATTORNEY TAKES OUT A
GUN AND KILLS THE CLIENT. WHY DID THE ATORNEY KILL THE
CLIENT? TELLER IS ASKED QUESTIONS WHICH CAN BE ANSWERED
YES OR NO UNTIL THE STORY UNFOLDS.
-- THE ATTORNEY WAS JEALOUS OF THE CLIENT'S WIFE. THE
ATTORNEY WAS A WOMAN.
Where learned: CALIFORNIA ; HOME ; LOS ANGELES ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): WOMEN LAW ATTORNEY
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
RIDDLE
HOW FAR IN CAN YOU GO INTO A FOREST?
-- HALF WAY. THEN YOU START GOING OUT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; COLLECTORS HOME ; TOLD IN
Keyword(s): DISTANCE MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
DOG RIDDLE
HOW FAR CAN A DOG WALK INTO THE WOODS?
-- HALF WAY, THE OTHER HALF HE IS WALKING OUT.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): DISTANCE MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 03-26-1968
RIDDLE QUESTION
IF A BIRD FLYS HALFWAY INTO THE FOREST, HOW FAR IS IT
TO THE OTHER END?
-- HALFWAY
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): DISTANCE MEASUREMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
RIDDLE
HOW FAR CAN YOU GO INTO THE WOODS?
-- HALFWAY AFTER THAT YOU WILL BE LEAVING.
Keyword(s): DISTANCE DIRECTION MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
RIDDLE
HOW LONG IS A PIECE OF STRING?
-- TWICE AS LONG AS IT IS FROM THE MIDDLE TO THE END.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN KINDE, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): DISTANCE MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-10-1967
RIDDLE
HOW MUCH DIRT IS THERE IN A WHOLE FIVE FEET DEEP?
-- NONE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-30-1967
HOLES
HOW MUCH DIRT IS THERE IN A HOLE 2 INCHES DEEP AND 2 INCHES
IN DIAMETER?
-- THERE AIN'T NO DIRT IN A HOLE, STUPID!
Keyword(s): MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 02-00-1970
RIDDLE
QUESTION: IF I HAD ONE THOUSAND MEN AND YOU HAD ONE THOUSAND
MEN AND WE WERE AT WAR, WHO WOULD WIN?
LISTENER: I GIVE UP.
ANSWER: I WOULD BECAUSE YOU JUST GAVE UP.
Where learned: OHIO ; CINCINNATI
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
RIDDLE
QUESTION: IF YOU HAD 1,000 MEN AND I HAD 1,000 MEN AND WE
WERE AT WAR, WHO WOULD WIN?
LISTENER: I GIVE UP.
ANSWER: I WIN. YOU JUST GAVE UP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 03-00-1970
Omen
A cat on board a ship will keep death and disaster away.
Data entry tech comment:
Motif added by T.R. Davidson
Where learned: CANADA ; ONTARIO ; TORONTO
Keyword(s): CAT ; DEATH ; Disaster ; Nautical ; OMEN ; PREVENTION ; Ship
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Belief
If you drop salt on the floor, shake salt over your left shoulder or there will be a catastrophe of fire or disappointment.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Various Boggs number classifications written down and crossed out:
P686
P860 = Use of Object
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CATASTROPHE ; DISAPPOINTMENT ; FIRE ; Salt ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Conversions P883.17 |
Belief
If you drop salt on the floor, shake salt over your left shoulder or there will be a catastrophe of fire or disappointment.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Various Boggs number classifications written down and crossed out:
P686
P860 = Use of Object
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CATASTROPHE ; DISAPPOINTMENT ; FIRE ; Salt ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: |
Faerie: Elves and Time Travellers
There is no such thing as "a fairy," but rather "Faerie" is a place - a half-remembered world perhaps existing in another dimension. "Faerie" was inhabited not by faeries but by elves. These Elves were not diminutive, but tall, pale, thin and fair. They were especially noted for their grey eyes. They are unable to touch iron: suggesting that these were early time-travellers unable to come in contact with magnetic sources without "grounding out" of the earthly dimension.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector stamped a home address stamp onto the card in the place of "collector data."
Stamp reads: Mrs.W.E. Givens, Jr.
They then crossed out the Prefix and first initials [Mrs. W.E.] of the name, and wrote an indecipherable scrawl over the suffix [Jr.]. This scrawl may possibly be Rev. or Esq.
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original Boggs number P400 was crossed out and P423 was substituted.
Where learned: WALES ; ABERYSTWYTH
Keyword(s): Attributes ; Dimension ; Elf ; Elves ; Faerie ; Fairy ; IRON ; Legend ; Lore ; METAL ; MYTH ; Physics ; Time-Traveler
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome |
Story
The recruit would go around the base in a constant search looking for a piece of paper. He would go through elaborate to attract attention [sic]. He would turn over rocks, pick up other pieces of paper or what have you. After each act he would exclaim "no, that's not it!" Finally he got the attention of the camp doctors who then had him confined. Finally the doctors deemed him unfit for service and gave him a medical discharge. Then the guy said he finally found the right piece of paper.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original Bogg Number [B600] crossed out and replaced with B646
Keyword(s): Discharge ; FEIGNED INSANITY TO GET OUT OF MILITARY SERVICE. ; Fool ; INSANITY ; INSANITY ; Mental Disorder ; MILITARY ; Parable ; Recruit ; Sanity ; Wise Fool
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Romantic Realistic |