Is it any wonder I drink? (3)

[Georgie]

Welcome to my world. Hope this gives you a chuckle.


Ah yes, American Education Week, when parents are allowed to drop in to observe. How I wish I'd had a parent in class during reading this morning. Vocabulary word "hoe." (Yes, you can guess...)

"Does anybody know what a hoe is?" I asked innocently.
Billy raised his hand.
"Yes, Billy?"
"It's like in that song."
"What song is that?" I asked.
"Who's a Hoe?" said Billy, "They play it on Z-100."
"Oh yeah, I know that song," said several other kids.
As sad as that really is, I admit I had to bite my cheek not to laugh out loud as I drew a picture of a garden hoe on the board. Now where are the parents when the really good stuff happens?

[wondersofwine]

Kids grow up too fast today. (It was a good chuckle). I remember once when I was mad at my older sister I caller her a horror, and she thought I said something else. I didn't even know what whore meant, let alone 'ho.'
Another time I called her a Pequot (an Indian word that I picked up from family vacations in Minnesota.) Neither of us knew what it meant but it sounded like a good word to express anger--You're a Pequot! (Maybe it's the name of an Indian tribe. In that case, I don't mean to sound bigoted.)

[Kcwhippet]

The Pequots are, indeed, a Native American tribe. They're very evident in the New England area. In fact, the Mashantucket Pequots own/run Foxwoods Casino on their reservation in Connecticut. They're down the street, sort of, from the Mohegan Sun Casino run by the Connecticut branch of the Mohegan tribe.

[quijote]

Whatever happened to the innocent, harmless words I grew up with, such as "Poopie-Face"?

[Auburnwine]

At Halloween, nobody could figure out what my 11-year-old was ("millionaire playboy"), so I suggested that he say that he was "a woefully misinformed existentialist." That drew a few chuckles on the trick-or-treat circuit.

[Thomas]

I'm amazed your 11 year-old could pronounce it, and more amazed he didn't dis-own you...

[quijote]

That's hilarious, Auburn!

Now watch, next year's Halloween craze will be to dress up as an existentialist.

What kind of candy does an existentialist eat, anyway?

[Thomas]

...the kind of candy that proves there is no God, just a big chocolate factory in the sky...

[Auburnwine]

Existentialist candy?

Hmmn. Best one I can think of would be Zero candy bars.

I do remember a Simone de Beauvoir quote which seems more appropriate to Proust:

"I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy luster of jellies, the kaleidoscope florescence of acidified fruitdrops -- red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colors themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me."

Will my son say: "I would stand transfixed before the screen of the Play Station ..."?

[This message has been edited by Auburnwine (edited 11-18-2003).]

[quijote]

If he can say "existentialist," he'll say "transfixed," too...

I like the Zero bar idea. I suppose existentialists also would eat candy with no center...

[ShortWiner]

Doughnut holes!

[winoweenie]

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