Mike,

 MP> Now that my generation, who mostly knew better, has given birth to the
 MP> Tide pod eating generation, I am shocked they can show any of the old
 MP> cartoons now.

  Too many can't distinguish fantasy from reality.

 MP> Incidentally, starting in January, MeTV is going to run 3 hours of
 MP> Saturday Morning cartoons, including Bugs, Daffy, Popeye, and Tom and
 MP> Jerry.  I am guessing they will be the edited versions, or they will
 MP> only show the episodes that don't require editing.  I am hoping it is
 MP> the latter.

  It's hard to find the original versions, as the world today has found
practically everything as offensive.

  My brother didn't like the birthday card I got him the other day (his
birthday is Dec. 23). He apparently doesn't appreciate punny humor, as
I do...and he doesn't like to be talked about him getting older (I've
known several like that).

  To me, every day is a gift, and I've worked hard for every gray hair
that I've got (I'll be 61 in March).

  Anyway, the card showed the naked backsides of a woman and a man...
from the middle back to the middle thigh...with the buttocks cheeks
there in all their glory. Inside the card, it said "Thought you might
expect some cracks about your age". 

  Then, I added "Every booty wishes you a happy birthday -- bun
appetit!!" .

  I personally thought it was funny...it pissed him off. I was just
trying to bring a smile to his day.

  I so wanted to tell him to "Get A Life", and as Roger Rabbit noted,
"If you don't have a sense of humor, you're better off dead!!". But,
since discretion is the better part of valor, I kept my mouth shut.
After his outburst, I've decided I'm not going to call him on that
day.

  He's also depressed that on Christmas (he hates the day now), 
every restaurant will be closed, and his friends will be with
other family and friends. He prefers to meet them at a restaurant,
and just sit, talk, eat, drink beer...and basically "party all the
time". 

  The latter has been quashed, since he was in a freak motorcycle
wreck, 3 months after my wife died. He was impatient, and went to
pass what he considered was a slow moving car. All he had on was a
pair of shorts...no shirt, no helmet, no shoes. A mailbox on the
side of the road caught the handlebar of the motorcycle...it
stopped...he didn't...flying over the handlebar at a high rate of
speed, crashing to the ground. He broke his shoulder, ankle, and
elbow, and fractured his hip. 

  He's lucky to be alive...as he could've been paralyzed or
killed...and I don't think I could've handled the deaths of my
grandmother-in-law, my Dad, my wife, my best man, and my brother,
all within a years time from September 2006 to September 2007.

Daryl


... How do frogs die? Ker-mit suicide
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