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Thread: out of the mouths of babes
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24th February 2005, 09:12 PM #1
out of the mouths of babes
Blatant snip from another site
After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their
>>>holiday away from school.
>>>One child wrote the following:
>>>
>>>We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They
>>>used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they
>>>moved to Arizona. Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted
>>>green to look like grass. They ride around on their bicycles and wear
>>>name tags because they don't know who they are anymore.
>>>
>>>They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got
>>>it
>>>fixed because it is all okay now,
>>>and do exercises there, but they don't do them very well.
>>>There is a swimming pool too, but in it, they all jump up and down with
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>>>hats on.
>>>At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in
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>>it.
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>>>He watches all day so nobody can escape.
>>>
>>>Sometimes they sneak out. They go cruising in their golf carts.
>>>Nobody
>>>there cooks, they just eat out.
>>>And, they eat the same thing every night------early birds.
>>>
>>>Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house. The
>>>ones who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center and call it
>>>pot luck.
>>>
>>>My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment
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>>>and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too.
>>>
>>>When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the doll house. Then
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>>>I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildrenWhat this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)