9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for February 15, 2017
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Transcript:
Woman: Why do you call your mother "mummy"? Man: I've always called her that. what's wrong with it? Woman: Well, it sounds a little childish. Man: You call your father ba. woman: Yes. but that's different. it's more literary...like "bah, humbug." Man: Well..."mummy" connotes a beetle infested, 3,500 year old egyptian cadaver rising hideously from it's gruesome catagalque to ravish you and spirit you away to your rightful throne....hatshesut, queen of the nile! Woman: ooooo! say that again! Woman: I think I'm swearing off eavesdropping on hugh and xiulan. Man: In time the nightmares will abate.
