[lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools

  • From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:07:21 -0500

Uh, my family is Jewish?

Erin



Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:

> And you know from sitting Shiva how?  Just curious....
>  
> So your bro had a gerbil.  I'm being arm-twisted to allow one last  mammal 
> into my daughter's room -- she's trying to choose among a rat, a gerbil,  and
> a 
> hamster.  Whaddya know about gerbils' behaviour?
>  
> Julie Krueger
> spending a fortune on pet food & litter
> 
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> Schools  Date: 2/16/06 7:29:26 P.M. Central Standard Time  From: 
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> My brother made us bury his gerbil and give it a  funeral.  We put it in an
> 
> egg 
> carton and burried it in the  garden.  He wanted us all to sit Shiva, but you
> 
> have to draw the line  somewhere.  
> 
> Erin
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting  JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> 
> > You should get another.  Lucy is the  first dog I've really loved since  my
> 
> > wonderful collie/hound  mix...he was such a good pet.  Died of old  age. 
> 
> And
> > I  
> > have tended in the past to ridicule slightly those people who   treat their
> 
> > animals like people ....but Lucy is such a wonderful  companion; I  take
> her
> > 
> > everywhere in the car with me, and  even let her sleep on my bed (an  
> absolute
> > no-no 
> > in  general) when I had the flu.  She so absolutely has her  very own  
> > personality.  Sometimes I think animals are nicer than   people.  My 
> daughter
> > would 
> > certainly say so.  One of  her mice recently  had babies and one of the
> tiny
> > things 
> >  (ugly as all get-out, pink, hairless,  worm-looking) died.  I told her  to
> 
> > toss it in the trash.  She was  outraged and insisted on a  full burial. 
> 
> ("If
> > you 
> > had a baby, Mom, and it  died,  would you want someone to throw it in the
> 
> > trash??").  Of course  this  is the same child who begged me, years ago, 
> when
> > I 
> >  swatted a wasp in her  bedroom, to "make it alive again, Mommy, make it 
> 
> alive
> > 
> > again!".
> >  
> > Julie  Krueger
> >
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