Posted on 08/25/2019 9:36:09 PM PDT by bitt
It was a typical playground — if you ignored the barbed wire and bizarre signs:
“PLEASE COOPERATE; SILENCE IS REQUESTED.”
“NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED TO BE TAKEN OF THE CHILDREN.”
The children in question were the internationally famous Dionne quintuplets, the first-ever five identical siblings to survive infancy. Four times a day the girls waddled into their private playground to shovel in a sandbox or wade through baby pools as thousands of onlookers gawked at the spectacle.
Their mere existence created a mania only rivaled three decades later by the arrival of the Beatles in America. When the playground opened to the public in 1936, 5,000 people stampeded the grounds.
“Quint-mania” was big business, bringing in an estimated 3 million visitors in the 1930s. More people visited “Quintland,” as their compound in a small city outside Ontario was called, than Niagara Falls. Their own doctor called them the “eighth wonder of the world.”
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In 1985 she lived in Cleveland, Ohio. I asked her if she’d heard that former President Richard Nixon had opened a big-and-tall men’s clothier in Syracuse, NY. She said she had not. Gut re-busted.
Smack the back of a little boy’s hand with a wooden spoon, will she? Ha!
No way to ever know, but I’ll just bet your Mom knew all along the truth about your statements. She may have known that you had a good sense of humor and saw yourself as a smooth talker, who could spin a good yarn. So she went along with it, because it was good for a giggle.
It was a way to bond with you, and it would cost her nothing to say she believed you. My late Mom was the same way.
It’s hard to surprise somebody who already knows you.
as a good counter prank- your Ma shoulda hired someone to act as a Belview mental institute Doctor to give you a visit and tell you that your mom called them to come pick you up because you were delusional and thought one of the quints lived next to you- lol
That’s something my family mighta done lol
Exploited is one word I’d use, but it would be the only one that I can use.
“No way to ever know”
Sure there is. Anyone could ask me or her, we know. Now You do too.
Moms are nice, you’re right.
So you lie to your mother and laugh when she believes/trusts you?
Odd sense of humor!
Screw you. Prefacing a sentence with the word so, adding your moronic analysis and then inappropriately appending a question mark is not a question. It’s a hallmark of the low IQ.
Your response is/was very predictable.
Get some help.
Predictability is a neutral quality. Could be good, bad or neither. Depending.
Low IQ is bad, solid bad. Always.
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