Re: [ADS-L] "can't say crap w/mouthful"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 8/25/06 11:47:43 PM, jparish at SIUE.EDU writes:


> RonButters wrote:
> > How about "Don't put anything in your mouth that you wouldn't put in your
> > hand?" This was the wisdom of my great-grandmother (born in 1860).
>
> Soup?
>
> Jim Parish
>

Clearly, folk wisdom has its limits.

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