[Eric 951]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

...I leave these: a box of mint-condition 1918 liberty-head silver dollars. You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and...

Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as... a walking-bird. We'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball...

Eh, why didn't you get something useful, like storm windows, or a nice pipe organ? I'm thirsty! Ew, what smells like mustard? There sure are a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood. Ooh, look at that one. Ow, my glaucoma just got worse. The president is a Democrat! Hello? I can't unbuckle my seat belt. Hello? There are too many leaves in your walkway..

Were you wearing an onion on your belt, which I hear was the style at the time...but you couldn't get white onions because of the war, which ended in nineteen dickety six, you had to say dickety because the Kaiser stole our word for "twenty", I chased after him but gave up after dickety-six miles.