ON THE DAY AFTER EASTER, THE FIRST GIRL A BOY SAW, HE WOULD SPRINKLE
HER WITH WATER. HOWEVER BOYS ARE BOYS WHEREVER YOU GO AND THEY
USUALLY USED A WHOLE BUCKET OF WATER ON EVERY GIRL THEY MET. THEIR
GIRL FRIENDS THEY SPRINKLED WITH PERFUME OR COLOGNE.

Data entry tech comment:

Updated and Motifs Added / 02-28-2011 / TRD
Informant and collector share same surname.

Where learned: TAYLOR ; Michigan Consolidated Gas Company ; informant's home

Keyword(s): Boy ; Cologne ; COURTSHIP ; CUSTOM ; DYNGUS DAY ; Female ; Flirt ; Flirtation ; Girl ; holiday ; Male ; Perfume ; RITUAL ; Scent ; WATER

Subject headings:

CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Monday Dyngus

Date learned: 11-27-1967

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Proverb

All is not gold that glitters.

Submitter comment:

From - Uncertain

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Glitter ; Gold ; Maxim ; Prose ; PROVERB ; Superficial ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Submitter comment:

Told to her by her father

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Maxim ; Moss ; PROVERB ; Roll ; STONE ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; Moss ; PROVERB ; Roll ; STONE ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; COLOR ; Covet ; ENVY ; Fence ; Grass ; Green ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Maxim ; Moss ; PROVERB ; Rolling ; STONE ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

At the end of every rainbow there is a pot of gold.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ;

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Gold ; Maxim ; Pot ; PROVERB ; RAINBOW ; TREASURE ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Everything that glitters is not gold.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classiication.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ;

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Glitter ; Gold ; Judgment ; Maxim ; METAL ; PROVERB ; Superficial ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Silence is golden.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Golden ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; SILENCE ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Submitter comment:

INformant heard this from his grandmother.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Maxim ; Moss ; PROVERB ; Rolling ; STONE ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Flunk now and avoid the June rush.

Submitter comment:

Grade school pun.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): ACADEMIC ; Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Fail ; Flunk ; Grade ; June ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; PUN ; SCHOOL ; Summer ; VERSE

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Entertainment: Song

Rugby Party Song:

(Group Sings)

We are off to see the Wild West Show, the elephant and the kangaroo, big baboons and cheetahs, nothing could be neeter, we're off to see the Wild West Show.

(Persons balance a glass of beer on his head and gets floor)

"And in this cage we have the _______!"

(All)

"The _______! Incredible, Fantastic! No Shit! What the fuck is an _______?"

(Person removes glass of beer from his head and says)

"The ______ is a very strange animal. It _______."

(Chorus is repeated ehre and the song begins again.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): ALCOHOL ; Crude ; DRINK ; Lewd ; Rugby ; SONG ; Sport ; Swear ; West ; Zoo

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.334
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing
Filter - Mature Content

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Superstition

Werewolf Moon

When the moon takes on a very orange color, this is said to be the time when werewolves come out.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): COLOR ; FANTASY ; Man ; MOON ; Orange ; SUPERNATURAL ; SUPERSTITION ; Transform ; TRANSFORMATION ; Werewolf ; Wolf

Subject headings:

PROSE NARRATIVE -- Werewolf Vampire
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Moon

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Joke

Easter Joke:

"Easter will be a little late this year, they found the body."

Submitter comment:

Sign on the desk of a room in Payne Hall, Peabody College.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): BODY ; Easter ; holiday ; JOKE ; RELIGION ; Resurrection

Subject headings:

PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

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Entertainment: Song

Hush-A-Bye:

Hush a bye, don't you cry, go to sleep little baby.

When you wake, you will find, all the pretty little horses.

Black ones and bays, white ones and grays, all the pretty little horses.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): BABY ; Bay ; Black ; COLOR ; Dapple ; Entertainment ; Gray ; HORSE ; LULLABY ; SONG ; White

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children

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Proverb

Goldfish:

In a world where all is water, who can tell when goldfish weep?

Submitter comment:

I found these words written on the wall of MRI 305 with no author.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): ; Apothegm ; Cry ; Goldfish ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; WATER ; Weep

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

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Language: Rhyme

Love Rhyme:

Remember the old, remember the new.

Remember the guy, who wrote "I Love You."

Submitter comment:

This rhyme was given to me by a grade school "boyfriend"

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): Language ; LOVE ; New ; Old ; Remember ; RHYME ; VERSE

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music

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Language: Rhyme

Roses Rhyme:

Roses are red, Violets are blue.

Sugar is sweet, And so are you.

Submitter comment:

This is a rhyme that is familiar to most everyone who has heard a "roses are red" rhyme...

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): Blue ; COLOR ; Language ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Sugar ; Sweet ; VERSE

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music

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Autograph Rhyme

Gradeschool Autograph:

When you get married and live in a holler: Send me a kiss on a paper dollar.

Submitter comment:

Collected from my grade school autograph book.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Dollar ; KISS ; Married ; Paper ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE

Subject headings:

Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music

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