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Ambition and the honesty of everyday work
http://www.jewishworldreview.com ^ | Garrison Keillor

Posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:27 PM PDT by manny613

People tell me I work too hard, but I don't work nearly so hard as my mother did, raising six children, cleaning, cooking, washing clothes and hanging them out on the line, and then there was the late-summer orgy of canning. We scoured the garden for every last tomato, string bean, ear of corn, cucumber. The kitchen was a boiler room

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dreamer; glasshalfempty; woebegonenot
a great story on the "old times"
1 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:27 PM PDT by manny613
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To: manny613

keillor is a pretty mixed up guy, I think.


2 posted on 09/28/2005 9:32:22 PM PDT by CaptainKeyword (it takes a college education to make a human believe he's a monkey.)
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To: manny613
Garrison Keillor has faulty reasoning. His stories mean nothing because the source is so perfectly batty. Just ask one of his 5 ex-wives what a great guy he is.
3 posted on 09/28/2005 9:48:59 PM PDT by msnimje (Hurricane KATRINA - An Example of Nature's Enforcement of Eminent Domain)
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To: manny613
Beware of losing basic skills. Hang onto that pressure cooker.

Careful, Garrison -- you may get a hangnail while doing the heavy lifting on that taxpayer-funded radio show of yours.

4 posted on 09/28/2005 10:38:36 PM PDT by martin_fierro (|\/|4R71|\|_P|-|13RR0)
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