J.
snitsnat wrote:
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>
> have a pickle! i did!
>
> that's an old joke from the Bad Subjects days. I won't name names, but
> someone accidentally sent a note to the list intended for her
> girlfriend and it contained an endearment, "pickle." Kinda embarassing.
>
> So, whenever anyone did that at the old Bad Subjects list, someone
> would pipe up to say, "Have a pickle!"
>
> I wish I could remember the story deX told us when he realized that
> we'd been taking him for a ride, going over the top flammage-wise, and
> he getting all defensive and snarly in return. Everyone knew that the
> people going over the top were just having fun.
>
> When deX figured it out, he told us a story about sitting on the
> veranda at his granny's home in Australia. She'd sit in the rocking
> chair sucking pickled eggs and then place them in another both, for
> the already sucked pickled eggs. Only deX's story was something about
> how, as a kid, he wanted to see what this sucking eggs thing was all
> about. So he grabbed an egg -- only out of the wrong bowl.
>
> ha. It's only sort of funny in this retelling. The way deX told it,
> I'm pretty sure anyone who read it laughed til they cried.
>
>
> Kelley
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