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IT'S A SHAME TO RUN, BUT AFTER YOU'VE RUN IT'S HEALTHY.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): EXERCISE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-23-1971
POLISH PROVERB
THE MOUNTAIN BROUGHT FORTH A MOUSE.
TRANSLATION OF:
GORA PORODZITA MYSZ.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS USED WHEN THE RESULTS ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN EXPECTED.
MY FATHER KNOWS THIS FROM POLAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): ANTICLIMAX
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-21-1967
PROVERB
THE MAN WHO BECOMES SUCCESSFUL OWES IT TO HIMSELF.
THEN HE OWES IT TO THE GOVERNMENT.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; ROCHESTER
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; TAXATION OF WEALTH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-11-1972
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM MAXIM
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!
Where learned: ON A BUS
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE ; PACIFISM ; SEX
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-19-1968
PROVERB
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE ; OXYMORON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-23-1968
TOO MUCH OF ONE THING IS GOOD FOR NOTHING.
Submitter comment: SOURCE NOT REMEMBERED
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): EXCESS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-15-1967
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DIALECT PHRASE
SUCH A DEAL
SUCH A DEAL
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; NORTH QUAD 201
James Callow Keyword(s): EXCLAMATION
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 11-27-1971
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In some small towns of Greece, it is believed that if an owl
appears at a house at night and "sings" someone in that house will
die.
Submitter comment:
My informant holds this superstition above all other
superstitions she believes in because when she was twelve she saw an
owl in her yard at some point in the evening and some weeks later her
mother became deathly ill. One year after that it is said that an owl
was seen on their rooftop and some months later her father passed
away.
Where learned: GREECE
Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS ; unexplained
| Subject headings: | Observation Favorites BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001946CA
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Play on Words
Play on Words:
Paradox: Casey and Kildare...
(Pair of doc's)
Submitter comment:
Val Zelnick. Heard long ago in grade-school. It is a way of remembering the word and its meaning, besides being a play on words.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [S300] crossed out. Nothing is written to replace it.
Submission card located in a pile marked To Be Classified.
Where learned: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Keyword(s): Doctors ; MNEMONIC ; Mnemonic Device ; PARADOX ; SATIRE OF DOCTORS ; Wit ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech |
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Maxim
A lot of girls would have hourglass figures if time hadn't shifted the sands.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [B660] is crossed out. Nothing replaces it.
Submission card was located in a pile marked To Be Classified.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ANTIFEMINISM ; BEAUTY ; Feminism ; Jest, Anecdote, Pun, Joke, Irony ; JOKE ; Physical ; PUN ; SEXISM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Some Women wait so long for their dreamboat to come along that their piers collapse.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [B660] crossed out. Nothing replaces it.
Submission card located in pile marked To Be Classified.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ANTIFEMINISM ; Feminism ; Jest, Anecdote, Pun, Joke, Irony ; JOKE ; PUN ; Relationships ; SEXISM ; SEXIST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
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