[lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:20:39 EST
How have I been reading your posts for years and not known that?
Oblivious R Us, I guess.
Julie Krueger
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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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