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23 January 2006

Dear Sweetheart,
Please cook me some prunes.

Love, Daddy

post by: me3dia at: 15:14 | 15 comments

Daddy sure liked those prunes.

posted by Frisbee Girl 23 January | 15:21

Old folks' handwriting. Did your grandma and grandpa call each other "mother" and "father"? Mine did, and I always thought it was kind of weird. Is it thing of their generation, or do people just hit a certain age and decide to call their husband "Daddy" (and not in the kinky way)?

posted by matildaben 23 January | 15:25

Seems to be three schools of thought in the comments:
1. Daddy has a medical condition necessitating lots of prunes.
2. "Cook me some prunes" is a strange and kinky code phrase.
3. Daddy just really liked prunes. A lot.

I'm going with a combo of 1 and 3.

posted by me3dia 23 January | 15:27

I'm going with "Daddy is senile".

posted by matildaben 23 January | 15:28

My mum used to call my dad dad. I wonder if she still does now I don't live with them? It just doesn't bear thinking about....

posted by dodgygeezer 23 January | 15:33

My mom doesn't talk to my dad anymore, but when she does it's either through us, the kids, or "hey, you."

It's it wrong that I like prunes?

posted by porpoise 23 January | 15:43

I love prunes. But not cooked. Ew.

My father in law calls my MIL "little girl" which makes me extrememly uncomfortable. I think I would prefer some version of "mommy"

posted by gaspode 23 January | 15:46

those notes made me feel funny.

bye bye!

posted by Mrs.Pants 23 January | 15:48

Why doesn't he cook his own goddamn prunes? Bastard.

posted by iconomy 23 January | 15:54

Great, now I've got Foreigner's "Urgent" stuck in my head!

posted by mischief 23 January | 15:56

Better than having it stuck somewhere else.

(because then you would need prunes. see how I did that? the full circle thing?)

posted by iconomy 23 January | 15:59

Smooth move, iconomy. (See how I kept it relevant?)

posted by jrossi4r 23 January | 18:36

Tee-hee.

See how I did that? Smooth Move is also a kind of tea. Tea? Tee-hee?

posted by iconomy 23 January | 19:31

This makes me think about poop!

(see how I did that? ...)

posted by taz 23 January | 20:36

me3dia, I had to come back to tell you... well... sweetheart, I think you know what I want.

Heh. No - not really. But just that it's so bizarre, I had to revisit the page today. And this time, in the comments section, I found an explanation of how the notes were found:

They were in a box of letters.
At the bottom.
In an envelope.
With a rubberband wrapped around it.
Written on the front.
"Notes from Daddy"

Which just makes it even more surreal.

posted by taz 25 January | 17:06

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