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Re: 'Please Stop Helping Us' 

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (2)
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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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Re: ‘Please Stop Helping Us’
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 09 Jun 20 5:02 AM 		Msg. 01602 of 60008

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Re: "Zim has nailed it with that post... My children are living proof... Likely De's son will be an example if De will just stay out of Joey's way. lol!!"It's true. I read him to sleep from the time he was old enough to understand. I remember reading The Wind in the Willows, Animal Farm, The Martian Chronicles, the entire 'Little House' series, Charlie and the Chocolate Family (he later played Willie Wonka), etc. to him - sometimes reading until I was hoarse.

Flashback: We were on a train and I was reading 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' to Joey when we got to a line describing Mike Teevee's cowboy pajamas, covered with pistols. Joey's eyes grew huge, and he started uncontrolled laughing. "Pistols! Pistols!" was all we could get out of him.

He was still very young, and "Pistol" was the term his grandpa had devised for a certain body part. He hadn't heard it used any other way. Oh, the image it had to have painted in his head!

He couldn't stop laughing for several minutes. Once we figured out why, neither could we.

I don't remember when we finally stopped reading him to bed, but one day it ended and I was a bit sad. It was the end of an era, with a lot of great stories behind us.

We also had his radio set to classical music and played it all night long from the day he was born until he was maybe 8 or 9. I think it helped turn him into who he is now.

I don't know if I mentioned this, but he finally settled on majors in Math and Computer Science. There aren't many math majors at the university. It's a hard course of study. I'm proud of him for pursuing that, especially since he doesn't think he has any natural aptitude for it. Last week, he had a 'Real Analysis' mid-term. He was the only student who didn't get free points from the teacher - who had to give them to everyone else to boost the curve. He'd scored 100 without them. I think that's pretty good for someone with no natural aptitude.

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