At 10:44 AM 5/29/2003 -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

And it is costing us no bux!

>> couldn't get it past my nose.
>
>We did taste the waters of Bath ... bleagh!

Heh.

>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!=

Could be . . .

>> 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

Essential, don't'cha know!

>> >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.

Me, too, actually.  Especially in this climate!

>> Of course you do know what Winston Churchill's opinion of water was, 
>> don't  you?
>
>typical of his time, I'm sure....

True.
 
>> 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."


Heh.

>> >> 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

Every day it's more and more a feat.

>> Veloci--Keys and the daughters ARE natives--raptor
>
>there ya go....

Yup.

>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.]

Well, congratulations  and happy birthday to the lad!

>Even got a President's academic award -- which thrilled me, as I figured
>he ran about 3 gpa points low.

Hugs to him!  (And to frazzled mama, too!)

>wistful mamma (with a HUGE to-do list, including baking a
brownie-"cake")
>tygress

Veloci--sounds yummy--raptor


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