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Default What happens when you ask your mom how to make an old familyrecipe

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:49:27 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > fired up random neurons and synapses to
> opine:
>
>> Sounds like me and my SIL ‹ "why should I do it this way?" "Because I'm
>> telling you to, that's why. This is how it's done." "But why?"
>> Iliketasmackhimone! Mostly, I don't feel like taking the time to
>> explain to him why, that's why! Shoot me.

>
> Which reminds me of an old story: guy's watching his wife prepare a
> ham for dinner and asks her why she cut off the ends of the ham.
>
> "Because my mother did it this way."
>
> Later at his MIL's house, he asks her why she cuts the ends off the
> ham.
>
> "Because my mother did it that way."
>
> He finally gets a chance to ask the question of Grandma, "Why do you
> cut the ends off your ham?"
>
> "Because it's the only way it will fit in the pan I have."
>
> Okay, so I've told it before...
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> --
>
> "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
> old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
> waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."
>
> - Duncan Hines
>
> To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"
>
>
>
>


How many people in your life call you "Squeaks"? It's odd that you
would add that to your already overextended name.

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