How Carter's Clan Beat Bugs

New York Post ^ | 12 January 2008 | Page Six Richard Johnson et al

[shrinkermd]

I just didn't realize how bad things were in Georgia.

[Bahbah]

Now this particular effort by Carter should provide some real knee slappers.

(I wonder if he blames the infestations on the Israelis?)

[SeafoodGumbo]

And don’t forget the killer psychotic rabbits.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“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.

[kbennkc]

I am uncomfortable about how fondly he recalls that colitis cure .

[econjack]

Hmmm...maybe that sulfur and kerosene on the head helps to explain how he gave us double-digit inflation and a 21% prime interest rate.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Why Carter is insane??

[gunservative]

Did Miss Lillian hate Jews as much as her son does?

[Ditter]

I am a city girl but I remember visiting mothers relatives who lived deep in the pine forest of east Texas. In the 1940’s they had no electricity or running water in the house and I am sure it is just what Jimmah experienced. My memories of the smoke house, the milking barn and the garden are precious to me. It was fun visiting them for the afternoon but I wouldn’t have wanted to live there.

[JimSEA]

Just read the post. In other words, he just grew up in a working class home 1940’s - 50’s America. Drama queen.

[digger48]

[kbennkc]

Miss Lillian always said Billy had all the brains in the family .

[Cicero]

Now I’m curious. Did the family eat clay? Apparently it’s a common practice in some parts of Georgia.

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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

[Mr_Moonlight]

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

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

[pandoraou812]

Hmmmm after reading this I do feel sick. Did Carter have to spill all of this? I still don’t like him.

[surrey]

I’m sure Bubba Clinton will find a way to top these stories.

[redpoll]

And to think when Carter was a child the state had been run by Democrats for many decades already.

[vietvet67]

[okie01]

I just didn't realize how bad things were [for Carter].

I still don't realize why we should care...

[boop]

From SNL: "A blind man touched the face of Lillian Carter and fainted today. He said 'I thought I touched a human brain.'"