Table of Contents Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life 1 Charles Clay Doyle "In Aqua Scribere": The Evolution of a Current Proverb 27 Isaac Jack L!vy and Rosemary L!vy Zumwalt "From One Act of Charity, the World Is Saved": Creative Selection of Proverbs in Sephardic Narrative 55 Shirley L. Arora Baseball as (Pan)America: A Sampling of Baseball-Related Metaphors in Spanish 85 Stephen D. Winick "You Can't Kill Shit": Occupational Proverb and Metaphorical System among Young Medical Professionals 129 Jay Mechling "Cheaters Never Prosper" and Other Lies Adults Tell Kids: Proverbs and the Culture Wars over Character 159 Anand Prahlad The Proverb and Fetishism in American Advertisements 187 Jan Harold Brunvand "The Early Bird Is Worth Two in the Bush": Captain Jack Aubrey's Fractured Proverbs 220 Alan Dundes As the Crow Flies: A Straightforward Study of Lineal Worldview in American Folk Speech 248 Contributors and Editors 270