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Maxim
A light heart insures good digestion
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Written in an old cook book
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SO?
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; BODY ; Digestion ; FOOD ; HEART ; LIGHT ; Maxim
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- S5570 |
Maxim
A dream of sweets is worth a pound of sours
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Keyword(s): Apothegm ; Dream ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Saying ; Sour ; Sweet ; VALUE ; VERSE ; Worth
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Toast
Nazdravlje
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Where learned: HUNGARY
Keyword(s): DRINK ; Hungary ; Language Serbian ; TOAST ; Well Wishes
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Toast
Egeszsegere
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Where learned: HUNGARY
Keyword(s): DRINK ; Good Will ; Hungary ; Serbian ; TOAST
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Saying
If you are serarated from the person you are walking with by a pole say "bread and butter."
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Keyword(s): BREAD ; Butter ; Pole ; Saying ; SUPERSTITION
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Saying
When someone says "I thought..." you say "You know what Mr. Thought did."
They probably will want to know what he did so you tell him: "He thought a razor blade was toilet paper and he cut his behind."
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Taste??
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Answer ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; QUESTION ; razor ; RETORT ; Saying ; Think ; Thought ; Toilet Paper
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Saying
Telephone Answer:
"Riedy's Morgue, You stab 'em, we slab 'em!"
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Answer ; Morgue ; Morgue ; Saying ; Slab ; Stab ; TELEPHONE
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Custom
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
When you fart if you don't call "Safeties," Everyone calls "Sluggers" and everyone gets to slug you.
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Original BN [F530] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BODILY FUNCTIONS ; CHILDHOOD ; CHILDREN ; CUSTOM ; Fart ; GAME ; Gas ; Play ; SAFETY ; Slugger ; tradition
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Language: Rhyme
Hickup Hickup go away
Come again another day
Hickup Hickup when I bake
I'll bake you a CAKE
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Pastime.
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Children sing this when they get the hiccups. Verse?
Original BN [C500, C730] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Bake ; Cake ; CHILDREN ; GAME ; HICCUP ; Hickup ; Language ; Nursery ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE
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Verse
You want a penny? Go kiss Jack Benny.
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Where learned: HONORS HOUSE
Keyword(s): Jack Benny ; KISS ; MONEY ; Penny ; RHYME ; Saying ; SLANG ; TAUNT ; VERSE
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Verse
Telephone Answer:
"Ring...."
"City Morgue, you stab 'em, we slab 'em." (sic)
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WESTLAND
Keyword(s): Answer ; JOKE ; Language ; Morgue ; RHYME ; Slab ; Stab ; TELEPHONE
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Verse
Salutations:
Say when you answer the telephone:
"City Morgue...you stab 'em, we slab 'em."
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GAME ; GREETING ; Language ; Morgue ; RHYME ; Salutation ; Slab ; Stab ; TELEPHONE
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Belief: Medical
Stand in front of house after losing baby tooth and repeat three times:
Little Mouse Little Mouse
Give me an iron tooth
For this bone tooth.
Then the tooth is thrown over the house in hope that new tooth is stronger.
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Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; Dentist ; House ; MEDICAL ; Mouse ; SUPERSTITION ; TEETH ; Tooth ; VERSE
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Saying
Format for answering telephone:
"Barker's Morgue, you stab 'em, we slab 'em."
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Where learned: WORK
Keyword(s): JOKE ; Morgue ; Saying ; Slab ; Stab ; TELEPHONE ; VERSE
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Proverb
Little pitchers have big ears.
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Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Already Under V200, Who Said? Said to children who hear things they shouldn't.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Big ; CHILDREN ; EARS ; Eavesdrop ; EUPHEMISM ; Little ; METAPHOR ; Overhear ; Pitchers ; SIMILE ; SYMBOL
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Language: Rhyme
Nonsense Rhyme:
Of all the fishies in the brook,
I'd rather be a bass.
I'd climb up on the biggest rock
And slide down on my hands and knees.
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Undetermined Origin
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
Keyword(s): Brook ; FISH ; Fishies ; Hands ; Knees ; Language ; NONSENSE ; RHYME ; Rock ; Slide
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
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Taunt
Fatty, fatty, two by four. Can't get through the bathroom door. So he did it on the floor.
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Friends
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Orignal BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): BATHROOM ; Bowels ; Door ; Fat ; Fatty ; Floor ; INSULT ; JOKE ; Large ; RHYME ; SIZE ; TAUNT ; URINATE ; WEIGHT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Retort
If a person is called a big mouth by another big mouth he says "the donkey said that the rooster had a big head."
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Annoying ; Big ; DONKEY ; HEAD ; Hypocrite ; INSULT ; Loud ; Mouth ; RETORT ; Rooster ; Saying
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |