oooh, my "magic" shivered just thinking of that.

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We created a divot at the top and pretended it was a horse and sang "I'm a rhinestone cowboy" at the top of our lungs.

Oh my.

I never did that. I did, however, sing a version with the words, "I'm a rhinestone cow-pie."

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Kat, you're right around the corner from me! Why oh why am I still here and still busy?

If you watch Sesame Street today, I *think* Gordon, Susan, Maria and Bob are all on occasionally.

Yep, they're all there. Plus Luis, Maria's husband. Mr Hooper died and was replaced by Alan. And Bob's not looking too healthy, if you ask me.

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Msbelle, Jesse and other Queensistas-- apparently the R, E, F & V are suspended in Queens. Because subways don't work when it rains, you know.

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I did, however, sing a version with the words, "I'm a rhinestone cow-pie."

One summer, my sister and I couldn't stop singing, "Don't sneeeeeze out loud / Just keep it inside / and learn how to hide your geeerrrrrms."

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Wasn't bon bon the person who flushed her cell phone down the toilet???

Or maybe it was keys?

I think that meets the criteria!

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Msbelle, Jesse and other Queensistas-- apparently the R, E, F & V are suspended in Queens. Because subways don't work when it rains, you know.

you know what's funny? I thought that was a Sesame Street reference :)

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Wasn't bon bon the person who flushed her cell phone down the toilet???

Or maybe it was keys?

It was the keys. I forgot about that! It was Bob Bob who flushed his cell shortly thereafter. IIRC.

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In the never ending story of Sophia's cat-mauling, I just got off the phone with my Dr, and he is giving me 5 more days of anti-biotics.

Sophia, is there anything new wrong, or did he just think about it and decide you needed more?

As for the defendant, I must report that my family has had a few “what were you thinking?!?!” moments. Youngest sister, as a toddler, would stick pennies up her nose. (1+ trips to the hospital).

Pennies!?!?!?! That must take a lot of effort. She was committed (or ought to have been).

Another sister, also then a toddler, kept riding her tricycle down the cement basement stairs (2 trips to the hospital; one visit from the social worker).

It's the "kept" that makes this story. A social worker? Oy. I wonder if your mother thought of letting them take her away.

Narrator!Niece stuck a kernel of corn in her ear (4+ trips to the doctor before he realized it wasn’t an infection or ear wax and had to pull it out with some medical instrument). My favorite, though, was my then-12 y/o sister who was shooting rubber bands off of a very thin crochet hook (for thread rather than yarn) and accidentally let go of the hook rather than the rubber band. The hook ended up in her thumb. It (fortunately) missed the nail and went all the way through the fleshy part of the thumb. Little blood and not much pain. The ER doctor loved it. He not only took an X-ray, he took a Polaroid and called other doctors down from other departments to see the darn thing before they cut the tip of the hook and pulled it out.

I don't know how my mother survived us.

Yeah. Your family was pretty evil.

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Okay, I'm ready to talk about the right book to read if you want to get an introduction to philosophy.

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