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WELLERISM
ONLY A FOOL WOULD USE LSD, SAID TOM ACIDLY
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DRUG: L.S.D., REFERRED TO AS ACID
James Callow Keyword(s): PUN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Date learned: 02-00-1971
POEM
LITTLE MARY DRANK SOME WATER/
NOW SHE IS NO MORE./FOR WHAT SHE TOOK FOR H2O WAS H2SO4
Submitter comment:
SHE GAVE ME THIS LITTLE DITTY, QUITE A POPULAR WAY TO
REMEMBER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): EUPHEMISM ; FUNCTION ; WATER AND SULPHURIC ACID
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
BECAUSE SEAGULLS CAN BECOME PESTS AT BEACHES, THEY CAN BE GOTTEN RID
OF BY FEEDING THEM ALKA-SELTZER. SUPPOSEDLY THEY FILL UP WITH GAS
AND THEN EXPLODE.
Submitter comment:
THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME BY MANY SEPARATE AND VARIED SOURCES,
AND THEY ALL HELD IT TO BE GOSPEL EXCEPT THAT NONE OF THEM HAVE
EVER PERSONALLY WITNESSED IT, JUST HEARD ABOUT IT.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ANTACID MEDICINE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird |
WHOOPING COUGH CURE:
PAROXYSMS ARE RELIEVED BY BREATHING FUMES OF TURPENTINE
AND CARBOLIC ACID.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Breathing ; Carbolic Acid ; COUGH ; CURE ; Paroxysms ; REMEDY ; Turpentine ; Whooping Cough
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 07-09-1973
Verse - Game
ABC - LSD - Marijuana is good for me.
Data entry tech comment:
Entered by TRD
Keyword(s): Acid ; ALPHABET ; DRUGS ; LSD ; Marijuana ; Pop Culture ; RHYME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |