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YOU CAN REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THE APOSTLES WITH THE
HELP OF THE WORD BAPTISM:
{THE INITIAL LETTERS OF THE APOSTLE'S NAMES SPELL
THE WORD BAPTISM}.
B=BARTHOLEMEW; A=ANDREW; P=PHILLIP; T=THOMAS AND THADDEUS
I=JAMES, JOHN, JAMES, JUDAS; S=SIMON-PETER; M=MATTHEW
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: 11-12-1969
A RAT IN THE HOUSE MAY EAT THE ICE CREAM.
{DEVICE FOR SPELLING} ARITHMETIC.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: 09-08-1969
MUSICAL MNEMONIC TO SEPARATE THE SPACES OF A
SHEET OF MUSIC.
FACE
Data entry tech comment: EACH SPACE IS GIVEN THE LETTERS IN THIS WORD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
MUSICAL MNEMONIC TO SEPARATE THE LINES OF A
SHEET OF MUSIC;
EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE.
Data entry tech comment: EACH LINE IS GIVEN THE FIRST LETTER OF THIS
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
YOU WOULD BE GREAT ON STAGE; THERE IS ONE LEAVING
IN TEN MINUTES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 11-27-1971
IN THE GAME OF HEARTS, THE THIRTEEN POINT LOSS WAS
CALLED "BIG BERTHA."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 555 Games / Pastimes / Sports |
Date learned: 11-06-1971
NEVER COMPLIMENT A CHILD ON HIS LOOKS--THE FATES MIGHT
BECOME JEALOUS OF IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): EVIL EYE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
IF SOMEONE SAYS TO YOU "I'LL SEE YOU IN CHURCH" ON SAYING
GOODBYE, IT MEANS DEATH.
Submitter comment: FROM GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
RELAX AND BE A FOOL WITH FOLLS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
RID UP THE TABLE.
Submitter comment:
IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO THIS MEANS CLEARING OFF THE
TABLE AFTER A MEAL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 10-23-1970
RICH AS MILK AND HONEY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 02-27-1971
ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER OR OUT OF
SIGHT OUT OF MIND, BUT DEPENDS UPON WHO YOU ARE
AWAY FROM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-06-1971
FAIR EXCHANGE, NO ROBBERY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1977
ULSTER WILL FIGHT
AND ULSTER WILL BE RIGHT.
Submitter comment:
PICKED UP WHILE IN DUBLIN LAST YEAR. WINSTON
CHURCHILL'S FATHER WAS THE ORIGINATOR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
GOONEY AS A MONKEY'S UNCLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 11-02-1971
IT IS A CUSTOM OF THE AMISH FOR THE GIRLS TO GO TO
SCHOOL ONLY UNTIL THE FOURTH GRADE, AND THE BOYS TO GO
ONLY TO THE EIGHTH GRADE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BOOK BUILDING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
MOD LIKE A RUG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ?
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 11-06-1971
THIS END UP {ARROW POINTING DOWN}
Submitter comment: DONE AS A JOKE, SAYS COLLECTOR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. TWO MEN WERE WALKING
ACROSS THE BRIDGE. SAID ANTONIO TO ANTHRONIO, TELL US A
STORIO. AND THE STORIO GOES AS FOLLOWS. IT WAS A DARK
AND STORMY NIGHT. TWO MEN WERE WALKING ACROSS THE
BRIDGE. SAID ANTONIO TO ANTHRONIO TELL US A STORIO.
AND THE STORIO GOES AS FOLLOWS....INFINITY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale |
Date learned: 01-30-1968
TANGLE TALK--THE MION AND THE LOUSE
WAY BACK BEFORE CROSSINGTON DELLED THE WASHWARE, A
LATE BIG GRION WAS DEEPING PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEN
BEAMING OF A DREEF STEAK, WHEN HE WAS AWAKENED BY A
MITTLE LOUSE RUNNING FRANK AND BORTH AFROSE HIS
CRACE. TOOSING HIS LEMPER, THE GRION LABBED THE MITTLE
LOUSE BY THE MUFF OF THE SCRECK AND WAS ON THE KERGE OF
VILLING HIM, MOOR LITTLE POUSE! "OH, LEASE, MR. PLION,"
MIED THE CROUSE, "IF YOU WILL ONLY GET ME LOW I FROMISE
PAITHFULLY TO REKIND YOU FOR YOUR PAYNESS." LO, THE
GRION, WHO MUST HAVE BEEN A CUB SOY BOUT IN HIS DOUNGER
YAYS, THOUGHT HE WOULD DEE HIS DAILY GOOD DOOD, SO HE
SET THE FROUSE MEE.
A COUPLE OF LEEKS WAITER, THIS VERY SAME SION GOT
NANGLED UP IN A TET AND THOUGH HE WAS THE BING OF
KEASTS, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CROS BINGBY, NO ONE
CAME TO ANSWER HIS RELLOWING BOARS.
BUT CHEAR DILDREN, PAYS THE HEAROFF: ALONG CAME THE MITTLE
LOUSE AND GNAWING THE TOPES WITH HIS REETH, FREES THE
SHION FROM HIS LACKLES. "TURN AFFAIR IS BOUT PLAY,"
MEAKES THE SQOSE, AS HE HURNED ON HIS TEEL AND HEADED
FOR BOME. NOW THE STORAL OF THIS MORY IS, SOMETIMES
OUR BLUBBLES ARE TRIG AND SOMETIMES OUR SRUBBLES
ARE TRAIL, BUT IF WE TRAD NO HUBBLES, HOW COULD BE
BLECKOGNIZE OUR RESSINGS?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale |
Date learned: 01-29-1968