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Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2008-06-09 09:52 PM

Angelo’s getting a little sick
of his life.

He’s working all the time,
and never gets to keep his cash.

Sally’s always standing at the door
with her hand out.

Angelo knows he has to grease it,
if he wants to live until the next morning.

Sally and Felix,
they ain’t playing with the boy.

Bobby

xTr3m3sT
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since 2008-03-03

Posts 415

1 posted 2008-06-09 10:10 PM

>.> ... Bobby, this is like excellent.... -_-''

Prasad Nataraj
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since 2008-05-29

Posts 1149
Bangalore,India

2 posted 2008-06-10 05:42 AM

Bobby, All work and no play will make Angelo feel like dead hay. Child labor is cruel. Excellent write. Prasad

"Hardwork pays in the long run"

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-06-10 12:39 PM

Thanks Angel,

I'm very happy this one worked for you.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-06-10 12:43 PM

Thanks Prasad,

What you say is very true. Here in the U. S. the saying is similar:

"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy."

Bobby

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

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Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

5 posted 2008-06-13 02:52 AM

Felix and Sally were just training Angelo in the ways of the IRS. Excellent parenting, maybe. Seriously, sucks to be Angelo sometimes, but he seemed to turn out alright.

Alison

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6 posted 2008-06-13 08:06 AM

Thanks dear Alison,

All childhoods suck. There is no such thing as a happy childhood. It just doesn't exist in nature.

Love Bobby

Alison

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Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

7 posted 2008-06-13 10:23 AM

Bobby,

It exists - just not for the masses. I have two very good friends who had delightfully happy childhoods.

However, sometimes our childhoods are watered down versions of our parent's childhoods.

A

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8 posted 2008-06-13 12:21 PM

Thanks dear Alison,

One of my favorite authors, James T. Farrell describes family life around Chicago this way. “They glory in the horror they create.”

Frank McCourt, the author of Angela’s Ashes, says:
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.”

Beware of people that claim a happy childhood, they may be fooling with the truth.

Bobby

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

9 posted 2008-06-13 01:03 PM

I think Angela's Ashes was one of the most depressing books I ever read. Maybe I just didn't get it. I wouldn't say I had a happy childhood at all, but still remember happy moments and I am grateful for them. They kept life from being as gray as Angela's Ashes.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10 posted 2008-06-13 03:04 PM

Thanks dear Ida,

For reading and commenting.

Love Bobby

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