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SAYING
GET YOUR FEET WET.
Where learned: Rhode Island ; NEWPORT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
Signatures:
Don't let your meat loaf
Data entry tech comment:
entered by TRD
Where learned: Rhode Island ; PROVIDENCE
Keyword(s): loaf ; meat ; meatloaf ; PLAY ON WORDS ; Signature
| Subject headings: | Z210 |
IF THE GARBAGE TRUCK WHICH CAME TO WOOLLEY HALL AT 7:00 P.M.
WENT STRAIGHT AFTERWARDS, THE NEXT DAY WOULD BE A GOOD ONE.
IF THE TRUCK TURNED, IT WOULD BE A BAD DAY.
Where learned: Rhode Island ; PROVIDENCE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
PARODY
CHASTE MAKES WASTE (PARODY OF "HASTE MAKES WASTE")
Where learned: Rhode Island ; PROVIDENCE
James Callow Keyword(s): ASSONANCE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1971
PARODY OF PROVERB
CHASTITY IS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT
(PARODY OF "VIRTUE IS ITS OWN REWARD")
Where learned: Rhode Island ; PROVIDENCE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1971
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Belief: Weather
It's All in the Color:
Evening red and morning gray
Will speed the traveller on his way;
Evening gray and morning red,
Will bring the rain upon his head.
Submitter comment:
Found in a paper placement printed in Rhode Island. Paper then found in Audio's Pizzaria, Detroit, MI.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Dup. of WPP
Where learned: Rhode Island
Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sky ; Traveler ; WARNING ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.890 |
Belief: Weather
Rainbow:
Rainbow at night, sailors delight; Rainbow in the morning, sailors take warning.
Submitter comment:
Paper placement, printed in Rhode Island. Paper wwas then found in Audio's Pizzaria in Detroit.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Dup. of WPP
Where learned: Rhode Island
Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; Nautical ; Ocean ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sailor ; Sky ; WARNING ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.890 |
Verse
The Wind:
When the wind is in the East,
'Tis good for neither man nor feast;
When the wind is in the North,
The skillful fisher goes not forth;
When the wind is in the South,
It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth;
When the wind is in the West,
Then 'tis at its very best.
Submitter comment:
Discovered in a paper placement, printed in Rhode Island. Paper then discovered at Audio's Pizzaria in Detroit.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Dup. of WPP
Where learned: Rhode Island
Keyword(s): Bait ; DIRECTION ; East ; FISH ; Fisherman ; FOOD ; Formula ; North ; Ocean ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sailor ; SEA ; Sky ; SONG ; South ; Sport ; VERSE ; WARNING ; West ; Wind
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.890 |