One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for August 23, 2023

I thought Rose was Italian not Mexican.

That’s Universal mother

Dread it, run from it, la chancla arrives all the same.

Normally you throw a towel to stop wrestling activity.

I used to have a boyfriend who was a singing wrestler. His name was Half-Nelson Eddie.

An Italian Grandmother can kill you with a wooden spoon from 100 yards away. (Heard this in a radio commercial) From my experience, it’s possible.

“Introducing from parts unknown…Superstar Joe!”

Least their grandma isn’t the spanking type like my friend Joey’s grandma was.

She’s supposed to whack him with it when he hands it to her.

In her first marriage, my wife would throw a shoe at her incorrigible son. Unfortunately for him, one leg required a built up shoe, so that one was quite heavy and would leave a mark if she was on target.

Where / when did the mask come from and why?

I grew up with a shoe slinging mother!

Mom was deadly accurate with her shoe but when she missed we were already running. She was an abusive alcoholic and you didn’t want to stick around.

once more with feeling

Anglo chancla!

Singing paramedics, I never played that when I was young.

that’s my grandson to a t