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DEAD MAN SITS UP
THERE WAS A MAN THAT DIED IN A CHAIR SITTING UP AND WHEN
THEY PUT HIM IN THE CASKET, THEY HAD TO TIE HIM DOWN TO MAKE HIM LIE
FLAT. WHEN THEY WERE HAVING A WAKE FOR HIM AND WERE DRINKING OUT
OF A JUG, THE MAN SAT UP IN THE COFFIN.
EVERYONE ELSE TOOK OFF FOR PARTS UNKNOWN SO THAT THE DEAD MAN WAS
ALONE.
Submitter comment:
MR. YOUNT BELIEVED THIS TO BE TRUE AS EVERYONE ELSE KNEW
THE MAN AND ALSO BELIEVED IT.
HAPPENED IN HOLLISTER, OHIO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): POST-MORTEM REFLEX
James Callow Keyword(s): DEATH WATCH OR WAKE ; RIGOR
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 05-11-1965
Proverb
watch pot never boils.
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James Callow comment:
A?? watch ed?? pot never boils
Original BN [V600] crossed out. replaced with current classifications.
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Keyword(s): Boil ; METAPHOR ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; View ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned this when she was a young girl in Chicago about 1910. She said it to me as I was looking out the window waiting for someone to come.
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Where learned: PORT LAMBTON
Keyword(s): Boil ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils.
Submitter comment:
Learned from her mother
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Where learned: INDIANA ; South Bend
Keyword(s): Boil ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils
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Keyword(s): BOILS ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched kettle never boils.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Boil ; Impatient ; Kettle ; Maxim ; PATIENCE ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; Wait ; Watch
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils.
Submitter comment:
If you stand and watch something, it seems to take twice as long.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANTICIPATION ; Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Boil ; Kettle ; Maxim ; Pot ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; Watch ; Watched ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched kettle never boils.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): Anticipate ; Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Boil ; Kettle ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; Watch
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Mary had a little watch
She swallowed it one day
She took a dose of castor oil
Just to pass the time away.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; CASTOR OIL ; EUPHEMISM ; Mary ; parody of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Tune ; VERSE ; Watch
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |