RE: Happy Holidays to All/now old country lanquages

Well one thing's for sure - it is effective and you only had to do it
once! Can't remember if it was mother or Nana who did that. I
occasionally had a smart mouth when I was a child. Act surprised.



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Theresa" <tchessie@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:25:34 -0800

>oh gag- I can't even imagine Fels Naptha in the mouth- it's great to wash
>off skin after touching poison ivy though to prevent the rash.
>
>Thanks god my mother didn't believe in the soap in mouth punishment!
>
>Theresa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
>Behalf Of james singer
>Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 12:32 PM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Happy Holidays to All/now old country lanquages
>
>
>Fels Naptha, I think
>
>On Saturday, December 27, 2003, at 03:17 PM, Daryl wrote:
>
>> That's interesting. There was no dearth of people who were
>> well-educated in
>> my Mom's family, but they had problems with postal delivery. If I
>> recall,
>> one of the last letters we got from the cousins said, in effect, please
>> don't send any more letters or packages, because they use them against
>> us.
>> We had been in the habit of sending clothes and food, and apparently,
>> among
>> other things, the packages were pilfered, and then the recipients
>> still had
>> to pay taxes on the whole thing. Sad.
>>
>> Re getting your mouth washed out with soap - that's a memory, all
>> right. I
>> can't stand the smell of Ivory to this day, nor of the old yellow
>> laundry
>> soap.
>>
>> Daryl
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Daniel Roman" <djroman@worldnet.att.net>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 8:43 AM
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Happy Holidays to All/now old country lanquages
>>
>>
>>> Daryl,
>>>
>>> We lost track of our relatives in the early 50's too. I know they were
>>> having trouble finding letter writers and sometimes it took close to a
>> year
>>> for a response. My mom used to complain that some of the writers were
>> barely
>>> able to put words
>>> on paper. She had to read the letter multiple times and guess at
>>> parts of
>> it
>>> to get any meaning.
>>>
>>> I still remember the time at the Christmas dinner table that I proudly
>> said
>>> a new Polish word that I had learned. It caused quite a commotion and
>>> threats of getting my mouth washed out with soap if I used that word
>> again.
>>> It was also bad timing on my part since we had about 20 relatives at
>>> the
>>> dinner. I think I was in my 20's before my parents were able to laugh
>> about
>>> the incident. Funny things one remembers about the holidays.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
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>Island Jim
>Southwest Florida
>Zone 10
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