Which Reminds Me

Yes, during the year that I was in 8th grade, Susie and Sammy were there also, Susie being in the 9th grade that year, because her brother had flunked third grade, and anyway one day my sister and I were talking to Susie and telling her that she was our best friend, and then she started counting down her friends, and we were numbers 13 and 14 or somewhere thereabouts, her best friend being her 9th grade classmate Josephine, a Filipino girl of whom I remember almost nothing, other than that during one school program she performed a tricky bamboo dance from her native land. Beyond that I have no memory of Josephine, so in terms of friendship Josephine would be simply a big fat zero, not that it wasn't interesting to watch her dance while avoiding getting her feet stuck in the swishing bamboo sticks. One can easily imagine that those Filipino peasants would get a thrill out of that sort of thing.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I am somehow reminded of poor little Buttercup, a joke about my cousin that I had not heard in a long time and cannot remember now what was your point anyway.

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Yes, bur of course, none of this twaddle changes the fact that I had already won the second grade spelling bee. The trophy yet sits there on my shelf with my name engraved on it, not yours.

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Yes, I vaguely remember that I was hearing quite a hullabaloo about Dutch, even though we have no Dutch in our family tree. I cannot even imagine why I would need to discuss something with the Dutch. Yes, there was a point someone was making about Dutch doors being only half open, because that is how Dutch doors are. Yes, I have seen Dutch doors before myself, so I really did not need your gratuitous explanation of what is a Dutch door. And why is Ms. Notman imagining that we are going to "get" her joke about Jane Wyman? I was never any huge fan of "Falcon Crest," so we don't "get" it, actually. And if I did vote for Dutch, I would have that in common with millions of other landslide Americans, so nothing special for me to say about that. Needless to say. Huh? 

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Yes, these are somewhat complicated personal matters to be discussing with Gerry's idiot cousin. Needless to say.

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Yes, I noticed an interesting thing recently, which is that the Dutch word "door" is sort of what "by" is in English, so that an author of a book is a door into another dimension of human knowledge, human existence. So that's a good point that we can get from Dutch, although not so much English, because sometimes things don't appear in translation so readily, but not everyone can read the original language, so you get whatever you an get and beyond that time is short. Needless to say. Obviously.

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Yes, I do sympathize with the idea of killing the gas and oil kids,but that is a different story for another time.