Group: soc.women
From: Sharon B
Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Moral Bush's favorite childhood hobby was blowing up frogs with fire crackers

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:29:36 GMT, "Avenger"
wrote in < $ @trnddc01>:

>
>"PolishKnight" wrote in message
>news: @ ...
>> In article < $ @trnddc08>,
>> "Avenger" wrote:
>>
>>> ">> > > "We were terrible to animals," recalled Mr. Throckmorton,
>>> laughing.
>>> A
>>> >> > > dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good
>>> >> > > rain,
>>> >> > > and thousands of frogs would come out.
>>> >>
>>> >> > > "Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them," Mr. Throckmorton
>>> >> > > said.
>>> >> > > "Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow
>>> >> > > them
>>> >> > > up."
>>> >>
>>> >> > > When he was not blowing up frogs, young George -- always restless
>>> >> > > and
>>> >> > > something of a natural leader -- would lead neighborhood children
>>> >> > > on
>>> >> > > daredevil expeditions around town, seeing how close they could
>>> >> > > come
>>> >> > > to
>>> >> > > breaking their necks. George also quickly acquired a colorful
>>> >> > > vocabulary.
>>>
>>> So he was a foul mouthed sadistic kid on his way to become a drunkard.
>>
>> This may explain why he gets along so well with Ted Kennedy. :-)
>
>Well Ted does perform one useful function. We can always tell when it's the
>first day of the Summer holiday when Teddy drives up on the sidewalk at
>Hyannis Port.

GUFFAW

"We" are Hyannis Port now, huh Avenger?