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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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IT'S DUCK SOUP
Submitter comment: ALL'S WELL
Where learned: LETTER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 10-23-1969
BEST DAY
THE BEST DAY IS TODAY.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDFATHER BELIEVES IN LIVING EACH DAY TO ITS FULLEST. HE HAS
TOLD ME THIS PROVERB MANY TIMES.
Where learned: MINNESOTA ; STURGEON LAKE ; WRITTEN IN A LETTER
James Callow Keyword(s): CARPE DIEM ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-05-1970
WELL FORMED DESTINY
THE MILLS OF THE GODS GRIND SLOWLY BUT EXCEEDINGLY FINE.
THE MILLS OF GOD ARE GRINDING MORE SLOWLY THAN USUAL.
Where learned: LETTER
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-23-1969
PHRASES OF A MATH TEACHER: RESIDUE OF YOUR MEMORY.
Where learned: LETTER
James Callow Keyword(s): ?
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 12-04-1968
PROVERB
EARTHQUAKE, THUNDER, FIRE AND FATHER.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LIVES IN JAPAN.
Data entry tech comment: OR, PERHAPS, FATHER IS LIKE THESE THREE CHARACTERISTICS.
James Callow comment:
I THINK THE MEANING IS THAT THESE THREE CATASTROPHIES
SEND YOU TO YOUR "MAKER."--F. M. PAULSEN
James Callow Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; CATASTROPHE ; TRANSLATION?
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 07-28-1964
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THERE'S SAND IN MY SPINACH.
Where learned: LETTER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 10-23-1969
PROVERBS OF A MATH TEACHER
THIS STUFF DOESN'T COME FROM THE HEAD OF ZEUS.
Where learned: LETTER
Keyword(s): MYTHOLOGY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-04-1968
HATE
THE MOST EXPENSIVE INDULGENCE IS HATE.
Submitter comment: THIS WAS WRITTEN IN A LETTER TO ME NOT LONG AGO BY MY GRANDFATHER.
Where learned: HOME ; MINNESOTA ; ROUTE 1 ; STURGEON LAKE ; WRITTEN IN A LETTER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-05-1970
TO A GREEDY PERSON, EVERYTHING IS TASTEY.
LAKNA CEMY WSZYSTKO SMACZNE. (POLISH)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; COLLECTED BY LETTER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-08-1970
LIFE
THE GREATEST PUZZLE IS LIFE ITSELF.
Submitter comment: MY GRANDFATHER IS FOND OF PHILOSOPHISING ON LIFE AND ITS MEANINGS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROUTE 1 ; STURGEON LAKE ; LETTER TO INFORMANTS HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-05-1970
SPEECH
A COLONEL IS CALLED A "FULL BULL."
Where learned: LETTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 01-30-1970
GESTURE
IN PARTING, WHEN A JAPANESE WAVES GOODBYE, HE USUALLY HOLDS THE ARM
ALOFT, WAVING THE HAND UP AND DOWN WITH THE PALM DOWNWARD. THIS SAME
MOTION OF THE HAND AND FINGERS WITH THE ARM OUTSTRETCHED HORIZONTALLY
USUALLY SIGNIFIES, "COME HERE". (IN THE WEST ONE BECKONS WITH ONE
FINGER, THE INDEX FINGER, WITH THE PALMS UPWARD).
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LIVES IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 07-20-1964
PROVERB
FALLING DROPS OF WATER WEAR AWAY A STONE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LIVES IN JAPAN.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 07-28-1964
PHRASES OF A MATH TEACHER
ADDING X<4 TO THE EQUATION REALLY DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; LETTER
Keyword(s): NUMBERS
James Callow Keyword(s): LOGIC
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
CURE FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO BARBERS WOULD BLEED CUSTOMERS WITH LEECHES
TO CURE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
Where learned: LETTER ; NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 02-01-1971
ROMAN OBSERVATION:
THE ROMANS DISLIKE THE ORNATE AND OSTENTATIOUS "ALTAR OF THE
NATION" WHICH CONTAINS A MONUMENT TO VICTOR EMMANUAL II.
THEY SAY: "THE BEST VIEW OF THE CITY IS FROM THE TOP OF THIS
BUILDING, BECAUSE ONLY FROM THE TOP DO YOU NOT HAVE TO LOOK AT
THIS MONSTROSITY."
Where learned: ITALY ; ROME ; IN A LETTER
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Monument |
Date learned: 09-00-1967