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Thursday, March 3. 2011

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The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.


Calvin Trillin

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 11:48 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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That's funny. But there's nothing wrong with leftovers. Growing up in a big family, leftovers were often a treat for lunch or a snack-- first come, first served.

I do the cooking in our house, and I always eat the leftovers for breakfast or lunch. Lots of things taste better the next day. And its bad home economics to waste food.
#1 D on 2011-03-03 12:23 (Reply)
Fortunately I know nothing about Calvin Trillin other than that he is a very amusing humorist.

Since he works for the NYT it is reasonably safe to assume he's a foaming leftist but since I don't know that I'll pretend it might not be true. He's a funny man... or, at least, he knows how to construct humor. Almost Twain-like.

His story about visitors to NYC making excuses for why the Tic-Tac-Toe playing chicken so easily beat them is LOL funny.
#2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2011-03-03 20:07 (Reply)
Trillin used to be on the Tonight Show fairly often when Johnny Carson hosted. He had a very dry sort of delivery that was as much a part of the humor as the content. He always had Carson (and me) in stitches. If he ever mentioned politics, I don't remember it.
#2.1 beenel on 2011-03-04 00:30 (Reply)

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