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from: Kestrel
date: 2003-05-28 21:50:46
subject: Re: food funny

> > lol... leader of the free world, but he still has to eat his 
> > veggies...
> 
> Wasn't it Bush Sr. who outraged Mothers across the nation by refusing to
> eat his Broccoli?
> "I'm President of the United States, I'm allowed not to eat Broccoli!"
> 
> ((good, leaves more for those of us who appreciate it!)) tygress

I rather enjoy it myself :)


> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I thought this was a stitch:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ====
> > > The newspapers took to saying I ruled the President [FDR] with a 
> > rod
> > > of iron.  Nonsense.  I had an awful time getting vegetables down 
> > him.
> > > I've come to the conclusion men just don't like vegetables.  
> > They're
> > > meat eaters by nature.  There was nothing Mrs. Roosevelt liked 
> > better
> > > than a nicely arranged salad, but the President always looked at
> > > anything with lettuce in it with a sort of martyrish eye, as if 
> > he
> > > knew it was good for him, but that didn't make him like it.  
> > Potatoes
> > > seem to be the male notion of a vegetable, even if the man is a
> > > president.  So one of the hardest jobs Mrs. Roosevelt and I shared 
> > was
> > > trying to coax vegetables down the president of the United 
> > States.
> > >  
> > > Henrietta Nesbitt, housekeeper for the F.D. Roosevelts, quoted in
> > > Barbara Haber's "From Hardtack to Home Fries"
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> ====
> 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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