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03 June 2005

Saucy Self Link. "How kind of God it was to give you a body! I hope that your body will not get hurt."

post by: taz at: 03:58 | 13 comments

saucy? it's gravy, baby

posted by ethylene 03 June | 04:46

I read that New Yorker piece and thought Gut Gott, that woman was a truly useful didact. No one ever trained children better to deal with the passive aggressive.

Maybe it's just a midwestern thing, but I've known way too many older ladies who are dead ringers for old Favell:

"How kind it was of God to give you that cupcake! I hope that your body will not get fat."
"How kind it was of God to give you that boyfriend! I hope that your body will not get a serious venereal disease, given how he gets around."
"How kind it was of God to give you that skirt! I hope that your body will not be mistaken for that of a hooker's."

Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Frigging Favells!

posted by melissa may 03 June | 06:27

"indolent, like the Spaniards"

This is amazing. I'm printing out the book so I can read it later at my leisure. She reminds me of my grandmother.

posted by iconomy 03 June | 06:43

In the section about Japan:

Oh! how sad to think that so many millions should be living and dying in darkness; for the chief religion is the false, and foolish religion of Buddha, or, as he is called in Japan, "Budso." How many names are given to that deceiver!

posted by iconomy 03 June | 06:49

"How kind of God it was to give you a body! I hope that your body will not get hurt."

Are you threatening me?

posted by dodgygeezer 03 June | 06:56

It's not that I'm threatening you, it's just that I wouldn't like to see a great knife run through your body, so that the blood would come out. Or anything like that.

posted by taz 03 June | 07:00

This whole thrad is creepin' me out.

posted by Doohickie 03 June | 07:15

gulp

posted by dodgygeezer 03 June | 09:10

A pig is greedy.
Did you ever see it at supper?
A man got a big can of slop for the pig. He filled a big tub.
The pig ran to the tub.
He sucked in the greasy stuff till his body was filled. So he got fat.
He is killed. He is cut up.
Bacon is a bit of his body.
Ham is the leg of the pig.

That's... that's beautiful.
*wipes away tear, terrifies several small children*

posted by languagehat 03 June | 09:10

*looks for more thrads with which to creep doohickie out*

posted by iconomy 03 June | 09:33

How easy it would be to hurt your poor little body!

If it were to fall into a hammock under a shady tree, you would have to lie there in indolence until somebody rescued you.

If it were to stumble over a vat of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, you would have to force yourself to eat until you were sated.

If it were picked up by your strapping young lover and tossed onto a great big featherbed piled with silk pillows you would have to...

Oh never mind.

posted by Secret Life of Gravy 03 June | 10:09

Gravy's Secret Life - not so secret any more.

posted by taz 03 June | 15:23

My favorite bit from the New Yorker article is when Mrs. Mortimer decides that her donkey needs to learn how to swim and forces it into the surf. Pruzan (the article author) then asks, "Was Mrs. Mortimer insane?"

posted by gramschmidt 03 June | 16:56

← someone get that comment compiler || ah, Wagner, →

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