-bwg wrote:
> Kathleen wrote:
>
>>My great, great Aunt Mamie drank an enormous mug of hot water with lemon
>>juice every morning. Claimed it kept her regular
>>
>
>
> I worked part of one summer about thirty years ago as a busboy at the
> Leibowitz Pine View Hotel in South Fallsburg in the Catskill
> Mountains' borscht belt. There was a little old lady who ordered the
> same thing for breakfast every morning--"Gless hot vater mit two
> prunes dahlinck." You'll have to supply your own Yiddish accent.

Aunt Mamie wasn't Yiddish but she did have four grandsons/nephews who
were plumbers who kept her on the up and up with regards to drinking
water safety. Too bad there were no electricians in the family to tell
her the TV anchormen couldn't look up her skirt when she watched the news.