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NAME
FALLING OFF THE ROOF-NAME GIVEN FOR PERIOD IN FEMALE MENSTRUAL CYCLE
Submitter comment: INFORMANT JUST HEARD THIS FROM MOTHER.
Where learned: TOLD AT ; Y HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 10-02-1970
JUMP ROPE RHYME
NOT LAST NIGHT
BUT THE NIGHT BEFORE
A PICKLE AND A LEMON
CAME KNOCKING AT MY DOOR
I WENT DOWNSTAIRS
TO LET THEM IN
AND THEY HIT ME ON THE HEAD
WITH A ROLLING PIN
Submitter comment: INFORMANT PLAYED TO THIS RHYME.
Where learned: TOLD AT ; Y HOUSE
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
VOCABULARY
SMACK FREAK - HEROINE ADDICT
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS THES IS A COMMMON NAME FOR THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE.
Where learned: TOLD AT ; Y HOUSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 10-09-1970
VOCABULARY
WORKS- NAME APPLIED TO THE MEASURING SPOON, SYRING, MATCH AND HEROINE
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS MANY HEROINE ADDICTS USE THESE TERMS.
Where learned: TOLD AT ; Y HOUSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 10-09-1970
NAMING THE ELDEST MALE CHILD
IF IT WORKS OUT THAT IN THREE SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS OF LEBANESE
FAMILIES THE ELDEST CHILD IS A BOY, THE SON IN THE THIRD GENERATION
IS NAMED AFTER THE SON OF THE FIRST. IN OTHER WORDS, HE IS NAMED
AFTER HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER (FRANK WAS NAMED AFTER HIS GRAND-
FATHER).
Where learned: TOLD AT ; Y HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 01-00-1969