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To: showme_the_Glory
My uncle's father immigrated from Croatia and spoke a combination of Slavic/English that was amusing and endearing. On the 4th of July, he would have the big extended family over for food and wine and play his accordion. He's give a speech on how glad he was to have made it to America, first to copper mines in Upper Michigan, then to southern Iowa.
The family would serve the meals on picnic tables and he was often heard to say he couldn't understand why Americans liked to eat outside and "s**t inside the house--it seemed backward to his way of thinking.
16 posted on 07/04/2006 6:51:36 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Somewhere I see a tagline....Americans liked to eat outside and "s**t inside :-)


24 posted on 07/04/2006 7:19:12 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
...he was often heard to say he couldn't understand why Americans liked to eat outside and "s**t inside the house--it seemed backward to his way of thinking.

Would make perfect sense... if you didn't have plumbing.

38 posted on 07/04/2006 8:28:02 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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