Comments on: If You Ain't Got Elegance http://domestikgoddess.com/if-you-aint-got-elegance/ thrifty and creative | home and garden | ideas and experience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken MacKeigan http://domestikgoddess.com/if-you-aint-got-elegance/#comment-780 Ken MacKeigan Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:41:13 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/if-you-aint-got-elegance/#comment-780 This reminds me of the story of the Cape Breton girl who had moved to Boston for work, and had returned home a year later for vacation. She had breakfast with her parents the first morning she was back. When her father was finished, he put on his cap and said, "Time to spread the horse manure on the back forty." The girl turned to her mother and said, "Mama! Mama! Make Papa say 'fertilizer'!" "'fertilizer'!", her mother replied, "It took me 20 years to say 'manure'!" Couth is in the eye of the beholder! This reminds me of the story of the Cape Breton girl who had moved to Boston for work, and had returned home a year later for vacation. She had breakfast with her parents the first morning she was back.

When her father was finished, he put on his cap and said, “Time to spread the horse manure on the back forty.”

The girl turned to her mother and said, “Mama! Mama! Make Papa say ‘fertilizer’!”

“‘fertilizer’!”, her mother replied, “It took me 20 years to say ‘manure’!”

Couth is in the eye of the beholder!

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