On Thu, 29 May 2003 00:18:30 -0400 Karen Rhodes
 writes:
> At 01:56 PM 5/28/2003 -0500, gumbie tygress wrote:
> 
> >> >If you drink the water, you're in a state of flux . . .
> >> 
> >> And if you wash with the water and a certain detergent, you're in 
> a 
> >> state of Lux.
> >
> >Go out to the pond and you'll get a spate of ducks....
> 
> Sometimes drinking the water requires a box of Chux.

This rhyme string certainly is full of Yux

> >> > couldn't 
> >> >resist the snide comment>
> >> 
> >> Oh, you ain't seen snide if you think that one is!    
> >> Actually, not
> >> far off the mark in many instances.  The water here is very high 
> in
> >> minerals, some of which cause some people to have the runs.  
> >
> >Try Klamath Falls' water -- they're in Volcano country, and some 
> wells
> >pump it out eau d' rotten eggs.
> 
> Water right out of the Floridan aquifer likewise.  Our water here 
> has a
> faint amount of it, after being double-filtered -- once at the pump 
> and
> once under the kitchen sink.  Not quite as bad as in volcano 
> country,  though, I would imagine.

Bad enough wherever you encounter it....
> 
> >Of course, in Bath England, they sell a glass of aromatic water 
> for
> >2-Pound. (ok, maybe not that bad)
> >Leave it in the Fridge and it would out gas -- but required some 
> special
> >conditioner for hair washing.
> 
> The Fountain of Youth (so-called) tourist attraction in St. 
> Augustine is
> very rotten-eggy, as it does come from a spring, which originates in 
> the
> aquifer.  On a field trip when I was in elementary school, I visited 
> the
> place, and we each were given a little paper cup of the water.  Echh 
> . . .
> couldn't get it past my nose.

We did taste the waters of Bath ... bleagh!
OTOH, I had a WONDERFUL pregnancy (though did not know then that I was,
being only days, if not hours, along...), so maybe there's something to
't??? =LOL!=

> But, yes, letting it stand (even at room temp) does allow the odor 
> to  dissipate.  Our water IS wonderfully clear and makes great coffee.

hey, great coffee is a wonderful thing

> >
> >> water.  She was fine after that, and eventually her system 
> became
> >> accustomed to the water.  Terrible thing for someone who's BORN 
> here 
> >> not to  be able to tolerate the water!
> >
> >don't drink the water, there seems to be something ailin' every 
> one....
> 
> Maybe we should all emulate W. C. Fields -- "never touch the stuff." 
>  Heehee.

perhaps -- but I *LIKE* my big cold glass of water, with or without
teabag.

> Of course you do know what Winston Churchill's opinion of water was, 
> don't  you?

typical of his time, I'm sure....
> 
> According to story, he didn't care to drink it, he said:  "Fish f*ck 
> in  it."  Well, that is direct and to the point, I suppose . . .

I had a high school teacher who said, "Water is for bathing. And brewing
tea."

> >> Veloci--weird place, Florida--raptor
> >
> >won't argue with a native, tygress....
> 
> Native by default, I suppose.  By de fault of my mudder who moved us 
> here  when I was 7.

=g=
In some small hamlets that won't buy you the title, but I commemorate
your longevity

> Veloci--Keys and the daughters ARE natives--raptor

there ya go....

Well, Reid is now graduated from 5th grade -- let the parties begin! [I'm
due back at 1:15 with the rootbeer float makings -- being Reid's birthday
(as well as Bob Hope's) and all.]
Even got a President's academic award -- which thrilled me, as I figured
he ran about 3 gpa points low.

wistful mamma (with a HUGE to-do list, including baking a brownie-"cake")
tygress
====
But what life is without danger, really? [Jill Fredston, arctic
adventure's] father, Arthur Fredston, a courtly Manhattan attorney, was
walking near the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Her mother, Elinor Fredston, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer almost
six years ago.... So, compared with terrorism and cancer, what's an
occasional polar bear? --Michael Ryan

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