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RIDDLE
Q. WHAT DO YOU CALL HORSES THAT PRACTICE THE OLDEST PROFESSION
IN THE WORLD?
A. NIGHT MARES.
Submitter comment: GET IT? PROSTITUTION. NIGHTMARES. I KNOW, GO TO MY ROOM.
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-00-1981
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
SILK PURSE,SOW,S EAR
Submitter comment:
THIS ONE WAS PRETTY DEEP, BUT MY INFORMANT SAID THIS WAS
A SIMPLE CASE OF EXPRESSING EXTREME CONTRAST. MAKES SENSE.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
ETHNIC JOKE
JOE: THERE,S A NEW STORE IN TOWN SELLING BRAINS, THEY HAVE
TWO TYPES--- A BLACK MAN,S BRAIN AND A WHITE MAN,S BRAIN.
THE BLACK MAN,S COST MORE.
JIM: WHY?
JOE: CAUSE THE WHITE MAN,S BRAIN BEEN USED.
Submitter comment: NOT FUNNY.
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-00-1981
DIVINATION
YOU WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
IF YOU GO OUTSIDE OR WASH YOUR FACE IN THE FIRST MAY RAIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck |
TALKING TO YOU IS LIKE TRYING TO KEEP WATER ON A DUCK,S BACK.
Submitter comment: APPARENTLY THERE IS A BIG COMMUNICATION GAP.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 10-17-1981
A HARD HEAD MAKES A SOFT BEHIND.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 10-17-1981
SAYING
TO YOU, FAT MEAT AIN,T EVEN GREASY
Submitter comment:
THIS MEANS THAT SIMPLE THINGS ,BASIC THINGS SEEM TO GO
MISUNDERSTOOD BY THE SUBJECT. NOT THAT HE/SHE IS DUMB,JUST
STUBBORN AND/OR ARROGANT.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-17-1981
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
LIVE BY THE SWORD, DIE BY THE SWORD
Submitter comment: VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 10-17-1981
Proverbial Saying
Retort:
Can't come in cans; cans come in success.
Submitter comment:
In school, 7th grade St. Theodore, SSJ, had on blackboard.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Meaning?
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; CAN ; Can't ; Language ; Maxim ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PROVERB ; PUN ; RETORT ; SUCCESS ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
A traditional reply to the word "hey" is "hay is for horses"
When a person, in conversation, pauses and says "well," then traditional answer is "wells are for water."
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V400, V300, S260] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Hay ; Hey ; HORSES ; Language ; RETORT ; SLANG ; WATER ; Well
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Do you think money grows on trees?
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Class?
Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Language ; MONEY ; RETORT ; SLANG ; Tree
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
At dinner time, a parental question/statement as a result of crude behavior is "were you raised in a barn?"
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V400, V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Barn ; Crude ; Language ; MANNERS ; Raised ; RETORT ; Rude ; Saying
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Salutation
Yours till the ocean wears rubber pants to keep its bottom dry.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Leave-Talking?
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; Farewell ; Ocean ; Pants ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Rubber ; Salutation ; Signature ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
FOLK REMEDIES.
FRESH CUCUMBER SLICES GET RID OF WRINKLES. YOU FIRST PUT THE
SLICES ON THEM, THEN REST FOR ONE HOUR AND THEN TAKE THEM OFF.
WRINKLES SHOULD THEN BE GONE.
Submitter comment: MY GRANDMOTHER DOES THIS AND SHE LOOKS VERY YOUNG.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
FOLK REMEDIES.
TO CLEAN TEETH AND WHITEN THEM YOU BRUSH WITH BICARBONATE SODA.
Submitter comment:
I USED TO DO THIS AND IT REALLY WORKS. IT ALSO LEAVES YOUR MOUTH
FEELING REALLY CLEAN.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
FOLK REMEDIES.
BICARBONATE SODA UNDER ARMPITS TO DISPELL BODY ODOR.
Submitter comment: MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER USED THIS METHOD.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
FOLK FOODS. ; FOLK FOODS: FLAN
INGREDIENTS: 3/4 CUPS OF SUGAR TO MAKE THE CARAMEL. 4 CUPS OF MILK.
2 TABLESPOONS OF VANILLA, 6 LARGE EGGS, SUGAR 1/4. MIX EGGS, SUGAR
AND VANILLA WITH A MIXER AT A LOW SPEED UNTIL MIXED. WARM MILK TO BE
HOT BUT NOT BOILED. MIX THE MILK WITH THE ABOVE ITEMS. PUT IN OVEN AT
350 DEGREES. PUT THESE THINGS IN A CARAMEL DISH. PUT THE DISH IN A
HOT WATER DISH AND BAKE FOR ONE HOUR UNTIL IT IS READY.
LET IT COOL. AFTER IT IS COOL, TRANSFER THE FLAN TO ANOTHER
DISH. SERVE WITH MANDARINE ORANGES OR ANY FRUIT YOU WISH.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A FAMILY RECIPE IN MY MOTHER'S FAMILY. IT IS SO OLD,
THAT SHE CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE IT CAME FROM, OTHER THAN FROM SPAIN.
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Manner of preparation Process Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
BELIEF OF EASTER
ON EASTER MORNING, AT 5:00 A.M., THE SUN WILL DANCE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday |
Date learned: 02-18-1971
EASTER BELIEF
YOU WILL BE HEALTHY ALL YEAR ROUND IF ON EASTER MORNING
YOU GET UP EARLY AND SWIM IN WATER.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): WATER
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 02-18-1971
EASTER CUSTOM
(WE) ALWAYS WENT DOWN TO THE MARONITE CHURCH TO MARCH IN THE
PROCESSION.
Submitter comment: FAMILY DID THIS WHEN YOUNG.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday |
Date learned: 04-15-1967