On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:31:05 -0400, (J T) wrote:

Tue, Sep 12, 2006, 6:22am (EDT-1) (Swingman) hath the
experiece:
That's all we had at night when I was a kid and stayed with my
grandparents on their farm. Folks who shared the same bedroom got to
know each other really well. Amusing now to see one with a flower
arrangement in it on an entry table ... or used as a punch bowl.

With me it was my great-grandparents. And they had the fancy ones,
white porcelen (?) with lids.

OK, flower arrangements, I can see that, and possibly even keep my
mouth shut - depending on how nice the person is.

But a PUNCH bowl? I don't care if the damn thing is brand-new and
never been used, it's the thought. Urgh. Musta been one of those damn
interior decorators, or "artistes", to come up with some idea like that.
Ahchh.


Read a story once of a family that moved to a farm somewhere on the
frontier. The neighbors, as was the custom, greeted the newcomers and even
brought over food. One of the neighbor families were Czech (or German),
brought over soup; to the horror of the newcomers, the soup was in a
chamber pot. Fortunately, the newcomers' wife was quite diplomatic and
remarked on the size and beauty of the pot, asking what they called it in
their language. The young lady beamed and answered, "Suppetopf" (German
for soup pot). At that point the newcomers realized that it was safe to
eat the soup as that the pot had only been used for food.




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