BA: There are a lot of Seattle jokes I hear. What do you call two straight days of rain? What? BA: A weekend. What do you call the big pointy sign above a tourist’s head? What? BA: An umbrella. As you can see, the only jokes I’ve heard about Seattle really just make fun of… Continue Reading »
“We have this tradition were if you are planning something that involves the outdoors and you don’t want it to rain (if you are having a birthday party outside for example), you fill a cup with water and put a knife in it with the sharp part facing down. The idea is that you are… Continue Reading »
Original Script: “My Grandmother would say when it would rain, like a soft rain, my grandmother would tell me it’s a soft rain, she learned that when she went to Ireland…it doesn’t apply to thunderstorms. Only lightly rainy days…” Background Information about the Piece by the informant: Jessica grew up in a catholic Irish home…. Continue Reading »
The informant is my younger sister, and over Spring Break, she and her friend had stayed with me. This is one of the legends she told me while we were getting ready for bed. There was a man named ‘Ohi’a and a woman named Lehua, and they were in love. But the goddess of… Continue Reading »
So, if you kill a spider, it will rain the next day. But I don’t think it really works because I’ve killed a lot of spiders, and it haven’t really been raining the next day. I learned it when I was little from my… I think it was my parents, but I’ve known it for…well… Continue Reading »