MAY YOUR PATH BE STRUED WITH FLOWERS
WELCOME BE ON EVERY SIDE
MAY YOUR HOME BE VERY HAPPY
MAY NO SORROWS ENTER THERE
MAY SWEET ROSES BLOOM AROUND YOU
AND LOVE GREET YOU EVERYWHERE
MAY YOUR FRIENDS BE MOST FAITHFUL
AND NO THOUGHTLESS WORD IMPLANT
THAT WOULD MAKE YOU FEEL UNHAPPY
OR WOULD WOUND YOUR KINDER HEART

Submitter comment: POEM BY ALBERT WALLEN, WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA

IN AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF LATE MRS. GEORGE A. SCHNEIDER
AND LATE CLARA SPIELBUSCH, TOLEDO, OHIO

Data entry tech comment: IMPLANT MIGHT BE IMPART

Where learned: OHIO ; TOLEDO

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; FLOWERS ; FRIENDSHIP ; HAPPINESS ; KINDNESS ; METAPHOR ; METER: TROCHEES ; REPETITION ; RHYME: ABCADAEFCA ; SERIOUSNESS ; SINCERITY ; STANZA ; WISH

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Tender sentiment

Date learned: 11-21-1965

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AUTOGRAPH BOOK PROSE

MAY YOUR LIFE BE LIKE ARITHMETIC
JOY ADDED, SORROW SUBTRACTED,
AND TIMES MULTIPLIED.

ACCEPT THESE FEW LINES FROM ME.
IT SHOWS THAT I'LL REMEMBER THEE
UNTIL YOU AND I SHALL MEET AGAIN.

Where learned: KANSAS ; HUDSON

James Callow Keyword(s): FUTURE ; WISH

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse
Z210

Date learned: 00-00-1933

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WHAT DOES A JEWISH WOMAN MAKE FOR DINNER? SHE MAKES
RESERVATIONS!

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN

James Callow Keyword(s): THE SO-CALLED JEWISH-AMERICAN PRINCESS WOULD AVOID WORK,

Subject headings:

JEWI

Date learned: 10-00-1983

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I WANT TO GET MARRIED (TO THE TUNE OF POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE)

I WANT TO GET MARRIED,
I WANT TO BE A WIFE.
I DON'T WANT ANYMORE OF THIS,
STUPID COLLEGE LIFE.
I WANT T'A GET A DIAMOND,
I WANT A BIG ROCK.
I NEED A MAN WITH MONEY,
I WANT TO BE OUT OF HOCK.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): WISH

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Marriage

Date learned: 10-00-1988

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AFTER A PERSON HAS EATEN ALL THE CHICKEN OFF A PULLY-BONE, HE HAS
ANOTHER PERSON TO PULL THE BONE APART WITH HIM UNDER THE
TABLE. THE PERSON THAT GETS THE SHORTEST PIECE WILL MARRY
FIRST. THAT PERSON SHOULD PUT THE SMALL PIECE OF BONE ON
TOP OF THE DOOR FRAME OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE.
THE FIRST PERSON OF THE MATCHING (OPPOSITE?) SEX TO COME THROUGH
THE DOOR WILL MARRY THE OWNER OF THE BONE.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Keyword(s): WISHBONE

Subject headings:

BELIEF -- Marriage
BELIEF -- Use of Object

Date learned: 04-03-1969

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PROVERB

MAY THE ROAD RISE WITH YOU.
GO N-EIRIGH AN BOTHAIR LEAT.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): WISH

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 08-00-1964

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PROVERBIAL PHRASE

MAY A MOUSE NEVER LEAVE YOUR CUPBOARD WITH A TEAR IN HIS EYE.

Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER GRANDMOTHER IN SCOTLAND.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK ; SCOTLAND

James Callow Keyword(s): WISH

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase

Date learned: 12-03-1965

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JEWISH SAYING -- OLD (TRANSLATED)

MAY THE LORD PROTECT US FROM HALF A WISEMAN AND HALF A DOCTOR.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): WISH PRAYER

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00-00-1968

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Caught

Three men: a Catholic, Jew and Protestant; were digging a ditch in front of a house of inequity. They looked up and saw the Rabbi coming down the street. The Rabbi stopped in front of the house, looked both ways and ran up the steps. When this happened the Catholic and Protestant really gave it to the Jew. A little later, the Protestant minister came down the street, stopped in front of the house, looked both ways and ran up the steps. Well now it was the Protestant's turn to be razzed. A little later the three saw a Catholic priest walk up to the front of the house, look both ways and run up the steps. The Catholic man yelled "There must be somebody sick in there!"

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ALLUSION TO PROSTITUTION ; Catholic ; HUMOR ; Jewish ; JOKE ; PROSTITUTION ; Protestant ; RELIGION

Subject headings:

PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

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A Joke

Informant told me that it is a standing joke among the Jewish people he knows that no two Jews can agree on anything except on what the third Jew should give.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

The word Jewish is written in the upper left hand corner of the submission.

The original BN's [A566, B660] have the lightest ink mark running through them. It may be that they were crossed out, or it may simply be a very light, very faint pen mark.

Submission card located in a pile marked To Be Classified.

Where learned: TELEPHONE ; TOLD BY

Keyword(s): ETHNIC JOKE ; HUMOR ; Jewish ; JOKE ; Stereotype

James Callow Keyword(s): Jewish

Subject headings:

PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

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Superstition

Point at a shooting star or even speak of it and you lose your next wish.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Origina BN's [P600.880, P800, P880] crossed out and replaced with current classifications.

Where learned: SCHOOL

Keyword(s): ASTROLOGY ; ASTRONOMY ; BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; GESTURE ; jinx ; Point ; SPEAKING TABU ; SUPERSTITION ; TABU ; WISH

Subject headings:

BELIEF -- Comet
BELIEF -- Prayer
SPEECH -- Gesture

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Ethnic Joke: Jewish

Irishman, Scotchman and Jew visiting dead friend in funeral parlor. Sign on dead man's chest says, "I'd like to take some money with me when I go." Irishman puts out $500. So does the Scotchman. Jew writes a $1500 check and takes the $1000 as change.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs and BN added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [B66] crossed out

Submission card located in pile marked [?]

Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Collection

Keyword(s): AFTERLIFE ; BURIAL ; Dead ; Distasteful ; ETHNIC ; Funeral ; Irish ; Jewish ; JOKE ; MONEY ; Offensive ; Penny-pincher ; SCOTTISH ; Stereotype

James Callow Keyword(s): Jewish

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery

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Ethnic Joke: Misc.

One fellow advising another to buy Fisher Price Toy MFG.Co. stock, because they were planning to marker a new item that was expected to go great. It was a boxed jigsaw puzzle made expressly for (Poles, or Italians, or Irish, etc.) with instructions which would eliminate any confusion by saying "open either end."

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs and BN added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Submission located in pile marked [?]

Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Collection

Keyword(s): BUSINESS ; Entertainments ; ETHNIC ; GAMES ; Investment ; Italian ; Jewish ; Mockery ; POLISH ; RIDICULE ; Stereotype ; Stock

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery

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Ethnic Joke: Jewish

Descriptions of a Jewish Christmas Card: on the front it has a tree, and strung from the tree, instead of the usually bulbs [sic], it has 32 colored Matzo Balls, and on the top, instead of the star of Bethlehem, it has a Jewish star, not the star adavin [sic], but a picture of Sammy Davis Jr. or Liz Taylor, you can take your pick.

Submitter comment:

Sammy Davis Jr. and Liz Taylor are Jewish movie stars.

Data entry tech comment:

I believe that adavin is supposed to be "of David."

Motifs and BN added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Submission card located in pile marked [?]

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; OAK PARK

Keyword(s): CHRISTMAS ; Decoration ; Distasteful ; ETHNIC ; Hollywood ; HUMOR ; Jewish ; JOKES ; Offensive ; Stereotype ; Tree