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BLOOD POISONING
SCRATCHING YOUR HEAD WITH A PENCIL OR PEN
WILL GIVE YOU BLOOD POISONING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): CAUSE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 12-07-1971
WHEN YOU COMB YOUR HAIR AND HAIR IS LEFT IN THE COMB
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BURN THE HAIR
BECAUSE IF YOU THROW IT AWAY THE BIRDS WILL GET IT
AND YOU WILL GO BALD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 12-01-1971
PROVERB
EASY COME, EASY GO.
(GERMAN) WIE GEWONNEN, SO ZERONNEN.
Submitter comment:
IN THE SENSE THAT WHAT ONE HAS GIVEN TO HIM, HE FINDS IT EASY TO
GIVE AWAY. OR IN THE SENSE THAT WHAT WE STRUGGLE FOR, WE HOLD MORE
TENACIOUSLY.
INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN REGENSBERG, GERMANY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): ELLIPSIS
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION ; OBSERVATION ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 12-04-1967
PROVERB
A BIRD IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A PIGEON ON THE ROOF.
EIN SPERLING IN DER HAND, IST BESSER ALS EINE TAUBE AUF
DEM DACH. (GERMAN)
ENGLISH VARIANT: A BIRD IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN TWO
IN THE BUSH. (TRANSLATION)
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN REGENSBERG, GERMANY.
Data entry tech comment: VARIANT
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; OBSERVATION ; PRIORITY
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-24-1967
BOSCO
I LOVE BOSCO
IT'S FULL OF TNT
MOMMY PUTS IT IN MY MILK
TO TRY AND BLOW UP ME.
BUT I FOOL MOMMY
I PUT IT IN HER TEA.
NO MORE MOMMY
TO TRY AND BLOW UP ME.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS A FRIENDS BROTHER, AND HE REMEMBERS THIS FROM HIS
CHILDHOOD.
IT IS SUNG TO THE TUNE OF THE OLD BOS
SONG.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): JOKE ; PARODY ; SONG ; Tune
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Good humor Jest |
PROVERB
BETTER TO BELCH AND BEAR THE SHAME,
THAN TO SQUELCH A BELCH AND BEAR THE PAIN.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN NORWALK, OHIO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; INDIGESTION ; INTERNAL RHYME ; ITERATION ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
RIDDLE
HOW LONG IS A PIECE OF STRING?
-- TWICE AS LONG AS IT IS FROM THE MIDDLE TO THE END.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN KINDE, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): DISTANCE MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-10-1967