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THE PICK UP
WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS AN ELEPHANT WITH A PROSTITUTE?
A TWO TON PICK-UP. A TWO TON PICK UP.
Submitter comment: FROM A FRIEND THAT HE WORKS WITH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 07-23-1964
STICKY MEMORIES
WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS A PEANUT WITH AN ELEPHANT?
A PEANUT THAT NEVER FORGETS AND AN ELEPHANT THAT STICKS TO THE ROOF
OF YOUR MOUTH.
Submitter comment: AFROM A FELLOW WORKER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 07-23-1964
A BULLY GOOD FRIEND
I'VE GOT MY RELATIONS WITHOUT RESERVATIONS
I'VE UNCLES, AUNTS, COUSINS NO END
BUT YOU, WELL GOD BLESS YOU
I'M GLAD TO ADDRESS YOU
AS SIMPLY A BULLY GOOD FRIEND.
Submitter comment: HER BROTHER.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME ; INTERNAL RHYME ; RHYME: ABCCD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.326 |
Date learned: 07-22-1964
CHARMING PIN
SEE A PIN AND LET IT LAY
BAD LUCK YOU WILL HAVE THAT DAY.
SEE A PIN AND PICK IT UP,
ALL THAT DAY YOU'LL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: (LEARNED FROM) HER MOTHER
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief |
Date learned: 07-28-1964
WHITE SPOTS
THERE IS A SUEPRSTITION REGARDING WHITE SPOTS ON ONE'S
FINGERNAILS. EACH SPOT HAS A MEANING:
FRIEND FOE LETTER BOW JOURNEY
THUMB INDEX MIDDLE RING LITTLE
Submitter comment:
SHE READ THIS WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT 18 YRS. OLD IN AN OLD BOOK
ON SUPERSTITIONS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails |
Date learned: 07-23-1964
A KING HAD TWO SONS. HE LOVED THEM EQUALLY. IN ORDER TO DECIDE
WHICH ONE HE WOULD GIVE HIS LAND, HE HAVE THEM TWO OF HIS
FASTEST HORSES AND HAD THEM START AT THE END OF HIS KINGDOM AND
RACE TO THE CASTLE. THE ONE WHO RETURNED LAST WOULD GET THE LAND.
THEY DRAGGED ALONG FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. FINALLY THEY CAME TO AN
INN. THEY STOPPED AT THE INN AND WHILE THERE, THEY COMPLAINED TO
THE INNKEEPER ABOUT HOW BORED THEY WERE. THE INNKEEPER WHISPERED
TWO WORDS INTO THEIR EARS. THEY RAN OUT, JUMPED ON THEIR HORSES
AND RACED OFF. WHAT WERE THE TWO WORDS? CHANGE HORSES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
Keyword(s): ROYALTY
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |