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Childhood foods
On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 6:53:35 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 4:50:33 PM UTC-5, wrote: > > On 10/10/2020 7:59 AM, Gary wrote: > > > Leo wrote: > > >> > > >> On 2020 Oct 8, , Ed Pawlowski wrote > > >> (in article >): > > >> > > >>> This was 2003 > > >>> http://mlmug.org/MoMStan.html > > >> > > >> I seem to remember that Stan and Andy met once for lunch. They took a picture > > >> of themselves looking at a river. The picture of them was from the back. I do > > >> not stand by this memory. > > > > > > Probably right. Andy never showed his face, only his butt. > > > > > > I always guessed that he was a "witness protection plan" fellow > > > and the bad guys finally caught up with him that New Year's Eve. > > > > > Andy was mentally ill. > He was, but he crossed the line with that "No Legs Murphy" shit. > Blake was no friend of mine, but... Then there's that worthless > turd, Greg Morrow, who used the phrase, "Slant Eyes." That's not > OK. A person's ethnicity and culture are more or less kind of fair > game, if they're relevant to the topic, but racial characteristics are > never OK. And to Jebus, who suggested that my wife of all > people had named her Halloween dessert "Spooktacular," out of > racial animus, I want to tell you this. When I told her about that, > she had never known of the pejorative, "spook." She, unlike me, > didn't grow up with racism, and has been an active anti-racist > since long before it was popular. She doesn't have a bigoted > bone in her body. > She's been a children's librarian in the community where we live > since 1992, and when she started her job at a library where > some of the older White women who worked there had double > standards, letting White patrons check out books when they > had outstanding fines, but not extending the same exceptions > to Black patrons, and she was having none of that. The > library director at the time let it go on, and she risked her job > by demanding that the practice had to stop. Oh, but it went > much further. When the book, *King and King* came out, she > put it into the children's collection, and has put up with outright > persecution by social conservatives for decades, including > incidents that included vandalism and ceaseless harassment. > Others in the community objected to her buying Bible stories > for children, as she had more of them in her collection than > most other libraries in St. Louis County, but she was buying > well written books that were requested by patrons, without > regard to ideology. That's what librarians are supposed to do, > and she did it, and continues to do it. > However one feels about *me*, Betsy is far beyond reproach. > Anyone who attacks her here should know that she's gotten > a lot worse, and her personal integrity has never wavered. > The most you could justifiably question is how such a > saintly woman could possibly be married to a guy like me, > and I cannot, nor will not, comment upon that. > > > > Jill > > --Bryan Yawn... -- Best Greg |
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