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To: backhoe

Smiling... I've had a few such statements slung my way down through the years. My favorite: "I don't CARE if the IQ test said you're a genius, you have NO COMMON SENSE!" Mom's are such pithy creatures, aren't they?


1,025 posted on 01/01/2005 3:41:31 PM PST by liberallyconservative (A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Eisenhower)
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To: liberallyconservative
My favorite: "I don't CARE if the IQ test said you're a genius, you have NO COMMON SENSE!" Mom's are such pithy creatures, aren't they?

My cousin Sam was the first "official" genius in the family- the first to score that high on a formal test- and his sister never missed an opportunity to knock him down a peg... like, "OK, genius-- you wanna help me wash- or dry?"

In a similar vein, whenever my Dad would counsel me that "There's no rest for the weary," Mom would mutter ( where he couldn't hear her, but I could ) "No rest for the wicked..."

I sure miss the old girl- she was quite a woman in her day.

1,027 posted on 01/01/2005 3:51:57 PM PST by backhoe (Just a Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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