"Oatmeal Cookie" (1884) & the official cookie of Connecticut

[Wilson Gray]

Sigh! Ain't that the God's truth?

-Wilson

On 3/7/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Always remember :
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>   Cookie GOOOOOD !
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>   Big issue *CONTENTIOUS* ! ! !
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On 3/7/06, Bapopik at aol.com wrote:
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> > Subject: "Oatmeal Cookie" (1884) & the official cookie of Connecticu=
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> > "After all, the bill designating the chocolate oatmeal drop cookie will
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> > just as delectable" next year, she said. "Other things, like bills
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> > state spending and taxing, cannot wait."
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> > But Sen. Don DeFronzo, D-New Britain, and Rep. Christopher Caruso,
> > D-Bridgeport, co-chairmen of the Government Administration and Elections
> > Committee,
> > said the state cookie bill and others like it help to engage children in
> > the
> > democratic process.
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> Isn't there a saying to the effect that "you can't / couldn't make this
> (kind of) stuff up"?
> How do legislators who believe that cookies are more important issues than
> taxing and
> spending ever get elected?
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> -Wilson
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