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Superstition: Sports
Sports:
Never wash your socks while you are on a winning streak.
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Reference
Original BN [P880] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BASEBALL GAME. ; jinx ; LUCK ; SPORTS ; SUPERSTITION ; Win
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion |
Verse
The Wind:
When the wind is in the East,
'Tis good for neither man nor feast;
When the wind is in the North,
The skillful fisher goes not forth;
When the wind is in the South,
It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth;
When the wind is in the West,
Then 'tis at its very best.
Submitter comment:
Discovered in a paper placement, printed in Rhode Island. Paper then discovered at Audio's Pizzaria in Detroit.
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Dup. of WPP
Where learned: Rhode Island
Keyword(s): Bait ; DIRECTION ; East ; FISH ; Fisherman ; FOOD ; Formula ; North ; Ocean ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sailor ; SEA ; Sky ; SONG ; South ; Sport ; VERSE ; WARNING ; West ; Wind
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.890 |
TAUNT AT TEAM GAMES
OE-SA-SA-SA,
OE-SA-SA-SA,
HIT 'EM IN THE HEAD
WITH A BIG KIELBASA!
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KIELBASA=POLISH SAUSAGE
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHANT ; CHEER ; Kielbasa ; SPORTS
James Callow Keyword(s): CHEER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse in Other Group of Folklore C800.500 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
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Red Hots
Hot Dog vendors often yell this phrase at baseball, football, basketball, etc, any sports activity, when trying to sell their weiner: "get your red-hots right here!"
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Where learned: Anonymous
Keyword(s): BASEBALL ; Basketball ; Football ; Hot ; Hot Dog ; Red ; SALE ; Sell ; SPORTS ; Vendor
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cries of street vendor |
Saying
Term used for those first dates when a parent drives you to or from an activity: Mommy-date.
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Keyword(s): Chaperone ; DATE ; Drive ; Language ; Mommy ; Nickname ; Saying ; SLANG ; Term ; TRANSPORTATION
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary |
BARN BURNER---MEANS A VERY CLOSE (IN SCORE) ATHLETIC
CONTEST.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Barn ; Burner ; Nickname ; Score ; SLANG ; SPORTS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
DAISY TRIMMER---MEANS A GROUNDBALL TO THE OUTFIELD.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BASEBALL ; Daisy ; Nickname ; SLANG ; SPORTS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
CLIFF HANGERS---MEAN A VERY CLOSE ATHLETIC CONTEST
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Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Cliff Hanger ; GAME ; Nickname ; Score ; SLANG ; SPORTS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Game Pastime Sport |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PROVERBS OF THE LOCKER ROOM
1-WHEN THE GOIN' GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOIN'.
2-THE BEST WAY TO LOSE IS NOT TO.
3-A GIRL BEFORE THE GAME WILL RUIN YOUR CHANCES OF FAME.
4-QUITTERS NEVER WIN AND WINNERS NEVER QUIT.
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; L:ocker Room ; PROVERB ; Saying ; SPORTS ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
FOOTBALL GAME SONG
(SUNG) GOD IS ON OUR SIDE.
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Keypunched by R.J.Miller 11/82
Updated by TRD 01/12
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
Keyword(s): Fan ; Football ; RELIGION ; SONG ; SPORTS
James Callow Keyword(s): MORALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- War cries |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
MY NAME IS JESUS
MY NAME IS JESUS, THE SON OF GOD;
WELL, HELLO, HELLO, HELLO,
I'VE COME TO SAVE AND HEAL YOUR BED,
WELL, HELLO, HELLO, HELLO,
ROCK 'EM, SOCK 'EM, JESUS KNOCK 'EM,
GO GOD, GO
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Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; PARTY ; SAILING CLUB
Keyword(s): JESUS ; MUSIC ; PARODY ; Rally ; RELIGION ; SONG ; SPORTS ; Tune ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Good humor Jest |
Date learned: 10-23-1971
BEFORE A BASKETBALL GAME ALL THE PLAYERS ON SACRED
HEART SEMINARY'S TEAM WOULD GATHER AROUND THE COACH
AND PLACE THEIR HANDS ON TOP OF HIS AND PRAY A
HAIL MARY, AND THEN "QUEEN OF VICTORY, PRAY FOR
US." THIS WAS DONE FOR LUCK IN WINNING THE GAME.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Basketball ; BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; GAME ; hail Mary ; LUCK ; Pray ; PRAYER ; Sacred Heart ; SPORTS ; SUPERSTITION ; Victory
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck P881.22 |
Date learned: 10-00-1971
BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER WHEN SWIMMING, YOU SHOULD
BLESS YOURSELF WITH A SIGN OF THE CROSS WITH THE
WATER, TO ENSURE A SAFE SWIM.
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Updated by TRD
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; SCRANTON
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Bless ; BLESSING ; Cross ; CUSTOM ; EXERCISE ; GAME ; LUCK ; SAFETY ; Sport ; SUPERSTITION ; Swim ; SWIMMING ; WATER
Date learned: 00001950S LATE