On Tue, 31 May 2011 20:15:15 -0400, Rusty >
arranged random neurons and said:

>On 5/31/2011 7:59 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:27:42 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Did I mention my mother was a lousy cook?
>>
>> Mine too.
>>
>
>Oh please --- I hate to hear that.
>
>Someday when you are older (like me at age 76) and you children say - my
>mother was a lousy cook --- it will hurt.

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My dear, my mother. God rest her, used to *revel* in her "lousy cook"
status. She used to say she could "burn water and overcook air." She
only ever had 3 reliable meals that would allow the family to approach
the table with confidence: pot roast, fried chicken and a Mexican
dinner (she was born and raised on the Mexican border in AZ and
learned the art from my grandmother's cook). Everything else was off
the back of a box or the label of a can. We lived in dread of Lent,
when her green turn casserole became a weekly offering, and upon
entering the house and sniffing liver, you'd want to run for your
life. You could beat someone to death with her liver dinner.

And we all remarked upon her miserable cooking efforts with great
fondness and we remark upon it still...and would give anything to once
again be faced with that damned green tuna casserole.

So, Rusty, the teller of the tale may mean in jest and fondness what
the hearer of the tale interprets as an unkindness.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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