On 5/15/09 3:14 AM, Lynne Cumming wrote:
My father always explained unknown items as 'a wigwam to wind the sun up with'. He was pretty good at explaining most things but this was a nice get out clause and a good answer to the eternal child's question 'what's that'!
The answer to "what fur?" was always "cat fur to make kitten britches."
I forget whether it was correcting our pronunciation or aborting a series of "why"s.
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