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While I was working in NYC the first week of this month, my wife (with the bigger handbag) went out to the Botanical Gardens with my sister. It looks like they had a better time than I did!
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)At least they're not hiding it from you!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)Well played my dear pinboy! Well played!
DFW
(54,379 posts)It might have been over troubled water anyway........
DFW
(54,379 posts)My wife has this hidden cruel streak she shows only to me, flies and mosquitoes.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)She should not treat you the way she treats flies and mosquitoes!
DFW
(54,379 posts)She does make up for it 99.99% of the time.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)the Colonel Bogey March?
DFW
(54,379 posts)We dumb Murkens who live abroad--some of us have no clue what that is.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)Thanks to pinboy, now I'm sure of the spelling!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)Thanks!
DFW
(54,379 posts)I think of things that never were and ask Kwai not?
DFW
(54,379 posts)We used to sing that in junior high, with a text that would probably get me hidden as inappropriate, although the jurors would be laughing themselves silly even as they did it.
kath
(10,565 posts)since it was written:
https://books.google.com/books?id=rde9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149&lpg=PT149&dq=comet+advertising+jingle&source=bl&ots=T7hneLQXUX&sig=CI-ebIOYjVkTGvAcncdmGd2T61k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif1sCV8LPKAhUK_WMKHWjZASQQ6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q=comet%20advertising%20jingle&f=false
i only knew the "Comet, it makes you vomit" version as a kid. Suspect you may be referring to the "Hitler has only got one ball" or "Herman, look what you've done to me" variations.
DFW
(54,379 posts)..."has only one big ball" etc etc
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)Are you gonna let this damn near unimurican get in the last pun???
DFW
(54,379 posts)I may live over the ocean and across the sea, but I'm as Murken as the rest of y'all. I can just say so in 9 languages, that's all!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)...but do you spend any time in Prague?
DFW
(54,379 posts)It's about a 75 minute flight from Düsseldorf. One of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)DFW
(54,379 posts)A few years ago, I guided Howard Dean and his daughter in real time on his Blackberry through the city center to some of our favorite sights and places to eat.