One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for November 27, 2009

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    COWBOY7  about 15 years ago

    Yeah, Pops has blinked and dozed since you started, Ruthie!!

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    Ushindi  about 15 years ago

    Ruthie is talking to her grandpa - she has an older brother, Joe, but he is not there right now. Ruthie and her grandpa are sitting on a couch. Her friend, James, lives with his mother in a trailer (James’ dad has been in jail from time to time - is he in jail right now? I don’t know). Ruthie also has a grandma and a mother and father. Right now, Ruthie is talking to her grandpa and asking him a question. He is losing his train of thought because Ruthie keeps talking. Where is James? He lives with his mother in a mobile home. Sometimes Ruthie talks too much. Her parents like her, though, but sometimes her brother gets upset with her. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” God didn’t really say that - he doesn’t say “creepeth” - he talks in English just like us. “God”, in Sanskrit, is pronounced “God”, not “go away”.Classical Sanskrit is the standard register as laid out in the grammar of Pāṇini, around the 4th century BCE. Its position in the cultures of South and Southeast Asia is akin to that of Latin and Greek in Europe and it has significantly influenced most modern languages of Nepal and India. Tulsa is cold, now - it is winter and the surface of the earth has tilted away from the sun. Summer will come again and it will get hot, so Ruthie will probably sell lemonade. The French word limonade, which originally referred to unsweetened lemon-flavoured water or carbonated soda, has since come to mean “soft drink,” regardless of flavor, in many countries.

    In the UK, the suffix ‘ade’ means a ‘carbonated sweet soft drink’; hence limeade, orangeade, cherryade, etc. Brown lemonade exists in the Northern Ireland region of the UK.

    In the Republic of Ireland, lemonade refers to the carbonated, lemon-flavored soft drink (as in the UK) but is further sub-divided into white (clear) lemonade and red lemonade. White lemonade equates to the colourless fizzy lemonade common in many countries, while red lemonade is particular to Ireland. Red lemonade differs slightly in taste from white lemonade and is either drunk neat or as part of a whiskey mixer.

    American-style lemonade exists in the UK as a “homemade” drink (also called lemonade), but is only rarely sold commercially under that name. A carbonated version is commonly sold commercially as “cloudy” or “traditional” lemonade. There are also similar uncarbonated products, lemon squash and lemon barley water, both of which are usually sold as a syrup which is diluted to taste. Traditional lemonade also comes in powder packages. Variations on this form of lemonade can be found worldwide. In India and Pakistan, where it is commonly known as limu paani or nimbu paani, lemonade may also contain salt and/or ginger juice. I didn’t have any nimbu paani in Viet Nam, but I got four medals when I was a clerk-typist - I can only wear them with my dress blues, not my regular stuff - my friends once asked my sergeant, “Why can’t he wear his medals?” ” Who knows”, he said. Why do you pick on me? You should talk to a mental health professional and ask him why you are cyber bullies. What in the world is wrong with my comment? Cain went to the land of Nod and took a wife, but they didn’t REALLY get married - did you know they didn’t have marriage licenses then? They just pretended, but you DO know that angels don’t have wings? Cherubs have wings, of course…

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    carmy  about 15 years ago

    LMBO, Ushindi!

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    GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago

    Ushindi LOL, but I can’t help but think that this ramble reminds me of someone.

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    alondra  about 15 years ago

    What in the world was that all about? Are you and Ruthie related by any chance, Ushindi?

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    joefish25  about 15 years ago

    bravo, ushindi and thanks for the lesson. i’ll be chuckling for a while

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    Takiniteasy  about 15 years ago

    Welcome back, Joe.

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    bald  about 15 years ago

    my sons girlfriend asked me why i liked to drive on this one cobblestone street near us and said “is it because it reminds you of your horse and buggy days”

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    GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago

    Just a few mouthfuls, Susan.

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    CindyluT  about 15 years ago

    Wow. First time here. Ushindi…

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    GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago

    openminded You spoke too soon, but we can all dream, can’t we?

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    bubbie7  about 15 years ago

    ushindi-i,m sorry it took so long to reply. i kept falling asleep.i,ll bet rick detorie never dreamed he’d bring that out in a reader snozzzzze. please don’t ever read pibgorn. you’d still be writing 8 days from now.

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