Name the person, the year, the place & the circumstan-ces.
Hint: The background is a red vinyl back seat of a station wagon and notice that there is no child restraint...
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a Dose of Dave (Barry)
Thanksgiving is not merely a time of eating until we are big fat bloated carbohydrate balloons lying motionless on the sofa watching the Detroit Lions while actual gravy oozes from our pores. Thanksgiving is also a time of giving thanks --as the Pilgrims did so many centuries ago --for the fact that the malls are open on Friday. Otherwise we'd have to spend another day cooped up with our loved ones, not to mention toxic levels of leftovers, and the number of domestic drumstick assaults would be even higher than it is.
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea of eating turkeys, which are, let’s face it, living organisms, like dogs or celery. You may wonder: Is there a more humanitarian option that you can serve for Thanksgiving dinner? There certainly is: tofu, a semi-foodlike substance secreted by soybeans as a defense mechanism. Tofu can be used as a high-protein substitute, as well as a denture adhesive or tile grout. In its natural state, tofu is tasteless and odorless, but if you form it into a turkey-shaped lump, season it well, add gravy, and bake it for two hours in a shallow pan at 350 degrees, you can also use it for minor driveway repairs.
Johnna
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11 comments:
Easy.
Lori.
1963.
Cross-country move to California in the back seat of a Comet.
I don't know who that is, but that is one cute kid, one cool vinyl red, and one very great photo.
Oh my goodness, as soon as I opened up your blog I knew it was me. Hard to believe.
It's actually the first time I have looked at myself as a child through the eyes of a parent. Sigh.
What WAS the circumstance?
PS
Judi, that I seriously a good memory. Dad, is she right?
Judi, the elder, is right on all counts. She was 6, David was 5, Lori was 19 months. Mike was -2. Everyone should drive across the country with a bunch of kids in a small car...ONCE.
The photo is available because I finally found a way to convert my old 35mm slides to a digital image. I now am the owner of a HP Scanjet G4050 flatbed scanner which does this along with other marvelous things such as photo and document scanning. For documents, I can create .pdf files and untimately Word files (there's an OCR somewhere in there).
Cute. I thought that might be Lori. I don't remember this because I was still an egg at this point...lol
I'll never forget that trip. Not only should everyone "drive across the country with a bunch of kids", but every kid should get the chance to see the USA from a car. ("Sorry" to my kids. We only drove to Yellowstone, Oregon and San Diego, but I think they would agree they were memorable trips.)
Dad, we've had a slide-to-digital scanner for three years. It does ONLY slides and is extremely easy to use. I forget the brand, and don't want to go look (it's in Rick's office). But it holds one slide in the slot, and bing-bang, it's quick. Rick took a bunch of slides from when his kids were young and their mom alive, and made them all a photo album a couple of Christmases past. A BIG hit!
Keep posting here! But I must warn your readers, none of my photos will be as cute as Lori's. She was very photogenic, and was always "the cute one". Mike followed as a close second. ;-)
My guess was Lori before I looked at the other responses (seriously, why would I lie??;-P) I thought she look 3 years old and I had no idea on the circumstances.... Any more???? Mike
Looks aren't everything, as I understand it, I was the most "outspoken" and "sassy/tempermental" of the bunch!
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Michael was not born yet...only three kids on the drive form NY!!!
can't tell for sure...was that a
-2 yrs?????
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