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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; INDIA ; BOMBAY
Keyword(s): LOAN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-15-1970
LEND YOUR MONEY AND LOSE YOUR FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; INDIA ; BOMBAY
Keyword(s): LOAN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-15-1970
IF IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE A BARGAIN, IT MUST TAKE TWO TO
BREAK IT.
Data entry tech comment: SPELLING CORRECTED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; INDIA ; BOMBAY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-15-1970
SUPERSTITION
UNLUCKY AT CARDS, LUCKY IN LOVE.
Submitter comment: HEARD FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 10-09-1967
WHEN YOU GET OLD AND OUT OF SHAPE,
REMEMBER THAT GIRDLES ARE JUST $2.98.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
Destiny
Killing an albatross while on a ship means that the ship is going to meet disaster.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [P870] crossed out and replaced with current classification.
Where learned: LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Albatross ; ANIMAL SYMBOL ; DESTINY ; Disaster ; Lore ; LUCK ; Nautical ; OMEN ; Sailor ; SEA ; Ship
| Subject headings: | Observation |
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
FISH AND VISITORS SMELL IN THREE DAYS.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM ONE OF HER FRIENDS.
Where learned: LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; 4001 W MCNICHOLS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-01-1971
WISHING
TAKE THE END OF A BANANA AND CUT IT
SLIGHTLY INTO A Y SHAPE WHICH STANDS FOR YES
AND YOUR WISH WILL COME THROUGH.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS SUPERSTITION IN THAILAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; 4001 W MCNICHOLS ; TOLD AT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 02-12-1971
MANY WOMEN THINK THAT THEIR HAIR WILL NOT TAKE A
PERMANENT WAVE WHILE THEY ARE MENSTRUATING.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: LIBRARY ; MERCY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-24-1967
SUPERSTITION
A COMMON BELIEF IS THAT A MUSTARD FOOT BATH WILL
BRING ON DELAYED MENSES.
Submitter comment: FROM A FRIEND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; DETROIT ; MERCY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-19-1967
IT IS ALSO BELIEVED THAT PRESERVES WILL NOT TURN OUT
RIGHT, CAKES WILL NOT RISE, CREAM WILL NOT THICKEN
WHEN WHIPPED DURING THE MENSTRUAL TIME.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; DETROIT ; MERCY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Food BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-06-1967
Prose
God didn't create the world in seven days--he goofed around for six days, then pulled an all-nighter.
--signed Ben
Submitter comment:
Found on desk top in University of Detroit Library
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Children's Songs
I went to Cincinnati and I walked
around the block
I walked right into a bakery shop
I bought three donuts and a pan
full of grease
And I hand the old lady a 5-cent piece
She looked at the nickel and she looked at me
She said this nickel is no good for me
There's a hole in the center and it's all the way through
And I said there's a hole in the center of your donut too!
Submitter comment:
Informant's mother told her.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
If one were to leave where would one go?
Submitter comment:
Graffiti on lavatory wall
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
There was once a man who prayed to God . . and he died.
Submitter comment:
Graffiti on lavatory wall
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
I dreampt I conquered the world in my Erin Go Braugh.
(This is a parody on a magazine ad for brassieres which goes: "I dreamt I conquered the world in my Maidenform bra.")
Submitter comment:
Told to me in informant's romm--she gets them from desks in the University of Detroit Library.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY ; informant's dorm room
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
God didn't really create the world in seven days. He fooled around for six days and pulled an all-nighter.
Submitter comment:
Someone wrote this in the library stacks.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: Library stacks
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
A warm message comes your way,
Wishing you a happy day.
And on this terrible piece of versey
I hope you'll show a little mercy.
Anonymous
(It's healthier)
Submitter comment:
Found in U of D library,third floor Carrel 10.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Life is a carrel-cell, my love.
Submitter comment:
Found in U of D library, basement Carrel 12.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
The only taste you have is in your mouth.
Submitter comment:
Referring to other graffiti.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |