Posted on 01/12/2008 3:16:54 PM PST by shrinkermd
January 12, 2008 -- NO matter what kind of hard-luck stories about growing up the presidential candidates can come up with this year, they'll be hard-pressed to match the woeful tales Jimmy Carter can spin.
In "A Remarkable Mother," his upcoming Simon & Schuster memoir about Lillian Carter, Carter says his Georgia home was constantly under siege from armies of insects and rodents, including rats so big they could "successfully challenge" most cats.
"Any container of milk or other food had to be kept covered, often with a piece of cheesecloth. We used flyswatters and sticky tapes hanging from the ceiling . . . but there was always a fresh phalanx waiting outside the back door," Carter writes. "The old joke was that cooking chitterlings [pig intestines] was the only thing that would make the flies find ways to get out of a house."
Worse yet were common ailments like tapeworm, hookworm and lice infestations - with supposed cures just as disgusting.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Now this particular effort by Carter should provide some real knee slappers.
(I wonder if he blames the infestations on the Israelis?)
And don’t forget the killer psychotic rabbits.
“rodents, including rats so big they could “successfully challenge” most cats.”
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves!!!
Though.... Jimmuh the Rat clearly never encountered a Viking Kitty.
I am uncomfortable about how fondly he recalls that colitis cure .
Why Carter is insane??
Did Miss Lillian hate Jews as much as her son does?
Just read the post. In other words, he just grew up in a working class home 1940’s - 50’s America. Drama queen.
Miss Lillian always said Billy had all the brains in the family .
Now I’m curious. Did the family eat clay? Apparently it’s a common practice in some parts of Georgia.
Suggested Reading
E. S. Bronstein and J. Dollar, “Pica in Pregnancy,” Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia 63, no. 8 (1974): 332-35.
T. Corwin, “The Clay Eaters,” Augusta Chronicle, March 18, 1999.
R. K. Grigsby, et al. “Chalk Eating in Middle Georgia: A Culture-bound Syndrome of Pica?” Southern Medical Journal 92, no. 2 (1999): 190-92.
G. A. Johnston, “Geophagia (kaolin ingestion) Complicated by Colon Rupture: A Case Report, Macon, Georgia,” Journal of Abdominal Surgery (fall 1997): 8-9.
J. C. Smulian, S. Motiwala, and R. K. Sigman, “Pica in a Rural Obstetric Population,” Southern Medical Journal 88, no. 12 (1995): 1236-40.
R. Kevin Grigsby, Medical College of Georgia
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
From Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch ... can't really post the whole thing, but can be read here
Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Four Yorkshiremen"
Enjoy :)
MM
Hmmmm after reading this I do feel sick. Did Carter have to spill all of this? I still don’t like him.
I’m sure Bubba Clinton will find a way to top these stories.
And to think when Carter was a child the state had been run by Democrats for many decades already.
I still don't realize why we should care...
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