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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Proverb
If you lay down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.
Submitter comment:
The informant warns many female teens to be careful about freely engaging in sex because they may wind up "caught" (pregnant). She says this all the time.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V300] crossed out, Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Company ; Dogs ; Fleas ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Relationships ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
COUNTING OUT
ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO, THREE POTATO, FOUR;
FIVE POTATO, SIX POTATO, SEVEN POTATO, ORE.
OUT GOES YOU.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT USED THIS RHYME WHILE A CHILD IN BALTIMORE.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated and Motifs added / 02-28-2011 / TRD
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE
Keyword(s): Count ; COUNTING ; Eliminate ; Elimination ; GAME ; NUMBER ; POTATO ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
TALKING PET
A MAN WHO WANTED A PET PARROT SAW A SIGN SAYING "BANKRUPTCY SALE"
IN THE WINDOW OF A PET SHOP. HE WENT INSIDE AND BEGAN BIDDING FOR
A BEAUTIFUL PARROT HE SAW. HE BID HIGHER AND HIGHER UNTIL THE BIRD
WAS FINALLY HIS. HE THEN ASKED THE AUCTIONEER IF THE BIRD COULD
TALK. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WAS BIDDING AGAINST YOU ALL THE
TIME?" SAID THE PARROT.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Bird PROSE NARRATIVE -- Tale PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal Tale PROSE NARRATIVE -- Man |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
Entry filtered.
Children's Rime
Does your nose run, do your feet smell?
Why, then you're built upside down.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Maxim
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Submitter comment:
Supposedly said by Abraham Lincoln.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Folk Speech
I haven't seen you in "a month of Sundays."
(Folk way of saying, in a long time.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Superstition
The only objects that are supposed to be able to kill witches are those that are made of silver.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Metal Stone Bone Gold Silver Copper |
Neck Riddle
What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?
Answer: A violin has a case; a fiddle is thrown over the back.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Neck Riddle
What's the difference between a vase(1)/vez/ and a vase(2)/vaz/?
Answer: A vase(2) costs over $5.00.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Children's Play Song
Chorus:
Boom, Boom, ain't it great to be crazy
Boom, Boom, ain't it great to be crazy
A horse and a flea and three blind mice
Sat on a table shooting dice
The horse, he slept and fell on the flea
Oops said the flea, there's a horse on me (chorus)
Eli, Eli, he sells sox
A dollar for a pair, a nickel for a box
The longer you wear 'em, the shorter they get
You put 'em in the water and they don't get wet (chorus)
A man sells a pair of Venetian underwear
He wore 'em nine months without a single tear
Wore 'em nine months, without exageration
Couldn't take 'em off 'cause he lost the combination (chorus)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Riddle
Why do people usually tap the side of their coffee or tea cup, after stirring the contents?
Answer: Because you can see it (the contents), smell it, taste it, and touch it, but you can't hear it, so you tap it.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Once through the lips, forever on the hips.
(Sign on the door of our cupboard.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Expression
Being "in the family way" is another way of saying being pregnant.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |