on 9/10/2007 7:57 PM aemeijers said the following:
"Dave" wrote in message
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Lobster wrote:


Owain wrote:


Lew Hartswick wrote:


I think I went through several suggar bowl lids when I was a
youngster. :-)

We were too poor to have sugar bowl lids.

Aye, us an' all - we used t'have to make do wi old jam-jar lids

Lids? Sugar bowls? What was wrong with the paper bag that it came in?


You had sugar? We had go out back and pick berries to mash into our cereal,
and squeeze into our coffee, if we wanted to sweeten them. Nothing like
wrestling racoons in the half-light of dawn to get the blood flowing....

aem sends...

You had dirt to grow berries in?

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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