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Old 05-31-2007, 12:52 PM   #35
Flint
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
In the nineteenth century there was comment on Americans eating food off of their knives. This is no longer done -- and it seems those instances when somebody commented on doing it that the spoon would have been the better instrument anyway. All that's left is this quatrain:

I eat my peas with honey;
I've done so all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife.
And how do you get peace, Homer? That's right: with a knife.
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