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In a message dated 5/31/2003 2:08:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> >George Carlinisms:
> >
> >How come wrong numbers are never busy?
> >Do people in Australia call the rest of the world "upover"?
> >Does killing time damage eternity?
> >Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
> >Why is it that night falls but day breaks?
> >Why is the third hand on the watch called a secondhand?
> >Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dish washing liquid
> made
> >with real
> >lemons?
> >Are part-time bandleaders semi-conductors?
> >Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
> >Daylight savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it?
> >Do jellyfish get gas from eating jellybeans?
> >Do pilots take crash-courses?
> >Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just
> >whipped out a quarter?
> >Have you ever seen a toad on a toadstool?
> >How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
> >How many weeks are there in a light year?
> >If Barbie's so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends?
> >If cats and dogs didn't have fur would we still pet them?
> >If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?
> >If you jog backwards, will you gain weight?
> >
>
>

When we were driving down to SC last year, we also knew we were then driving
to Sarasota, FL afterwards, then Julian and Beth were going to drive all the
way back to MA. (For long complicated reasons involving my dying mother.
Well...she was dying at the time. She actually DID go through with it. This has
nothing to do with the story...I am just addled. I remember learning in school
that Thomas Edison was considered "addled" as a child. And he kind of unschooled,
ultimately, so I guess there is an unschooling connection. ANYWAY....)

So we got story tapes from the library.

One of the ones I picked up was George Carlin's. Julian had never heard him,
and LOVED it....played it over and over again. It's fun watching Julian listen
to something like that that he finds REALLY funny....he just is overcome with
laughter. It reminds me of those times when he was very little and you could
do that romping kind of thing which would just fill him with utter joy and
laughter.

Anyway, when he wakes up (often around the crack of noon these days) I'll
share them with him.

Thanks :)
Kathryn


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