Monday, December 5, 2011

Snappy Retorts To Rude Holiday Questions


Snappy Retorts To Rude Holiday Questions


http://www.baltimoresun.com/hc-op-barreca-christmas-time-questions-1202-20111202,0,2306352.column

Welcome to December! Get out the tissue paper and the bows. While you're at it, get out the tissues and the waterproof mascara. It's the holiday season, sweetie. Just face the fact that somebody in your family will make you cry before the month is out.

I don't care whether you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Shinto or a practicing atheist; if you're female and you have relatives, you'll be making weepy, baby-seal eyes at somebody's casual question while "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" plays endlessly in the background....

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To prepare in advance for assaults both real and imagined, I asked my friends Sam and Antoinette to compile a series of replies to help the most fragile egos survive the rest of 2011 with the fewest tears — while having the most fun possible.... http://www.baltimoresun.com/hc-op-barreca-christmas-time-questions-1202-20111202,0,2306352.column


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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.


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Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/

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