Monday's page from the Stephen Colbert "I Am America (and So Can You!)" page-a-day calendar featured Stephen's thoughts on "Old People." It's pretty hilarious, especially if one is aware of the medical history of my husband.
"Old people are tough. They made shoes out of newspaper and twine, and subsisted on a thin stew of newspaper and twine. Sometimes they had to go without shoes and stew altogether so that there would be enough newspaper and twine to treat the baby's Scarlet Fever."
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Mayhap the Ingalls didn't have enough newspaper and twine to save poor Mary's eyesight?
At first I thought, "Hey, isn't that from his book?"
But then I re-read the title of the calendar, and sure enough, it's from his book.
We didn't get twine until I was 12. Before that we had to make do by twisting together strands of fur from the cats who lived in the barn. And we loved it!!
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