I was laying there trying to go to sleep last night (without much success, as I have a toothache), and my mind was wandering. I don't know about your mind, but when mine wanders....whoa! (just look at some earlier posts) So, I was thinking about George Washington (what...you don't think about our founding fathers when you are lying there trying to go to sleep?) and how he was called "the Father of our Country". I further thought that there is not a "Mother of our Country" (unless Martha gets it by default, but I don't think so). Then I started thinking about "family" or relationship nicknames. This is to be a participatory blog. I want you all to write back with the ones you think of that I missed. Here are the ones I thought of (I was up quite a while with my tooth!):
Father of our Country, the Founding Fathers, Uncle Sam, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Mother of all battles (or bombs), a priest is called - Father, a Mother Superior runs a convent, a priest can be a Brother, a nun is a Sister, Father Time, the pope is the Holy Father, then you have the biggie in religion - the Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost. How about Father Time, Mother Goose, the Mother Tongue? Then there is the Mother Lode, the Fatherland, the Motherland and Big Brother. Brother's Grimm, the Allman Brothers, the Blues Brothers, Brooks Brothers, the Doobie Brothers, Neville Brothers, and more currently - the Jonas Brothers, Twisted Sister, the Andrews Sisters, and the Lennon Sisters. Mothers of Invention, Uncle Kracker, Sister Soulja, Sister Sledge, and maybe the Bee Gees (stands for Brothers Gibb).
I know there are more, so write in. I stayed up as long as I could.
Later
Here is another thing that is bothering me - I am tired of people whining about gas prices. Gas was never free!! When people whine about "$40 to fill my tank" they forget that even at $2 a gallon it was $25 or so to fill it!! Here are some numbers: The average car in the U.S. is driven about 12,000 miles a year. If you get 20 MPG (hey if you are driving a Hummer, getting 10, I don't want to hear it!) That is 600 gallons of gas a year. Most people would be estatic if gas was at $2 a gallon again -SO, that is about $600 a year (for the extra $1 a gallon) or $11.54 a week. Now I know there are a LOT of folks that were struggling to pay the $2, but the average person I know was not. Here is another way to look at it. How many Starbuck's coffees or lattes have you had lately at $$37.33 a gallon? ($3.50 for a 12 oz one) How about a beer on an airplane at $53.33 a gallon? ($5 per) Then there is bottled water at $10.66 a gallon. ($1 a 12oz bottle -and it can be MUCH higher...
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