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Pumpkin Bunny. Bridget's eyes drifted to the bookshelf where her favorite childhood toy sat propped up in the corner. It had been a gift from her dad from before she could remember, a soft, fluffy stuffed bunny popping out of a pumpkin like a stripper from a birthday cake.

Gretchen McNeil

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Frank Zappa

Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words Since I first call'd my brother's father dad.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _King John. Act ii. Sc. 2._

Yes. So what are you packing for your dad’s house? Six weeks is a long time.

Kasie West

It’s not like most guys are going to pass muster with the Terrible Trio anyway. They’re a hundred times worse than a dad with a shotgun.

Jay Crownover

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...

J.K. Rowling

QOTD:

    "I used to go to UCLA, but then my Dad got a job."

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Q:    Why haven't you graduated yet?

A:    Well, Dad, I could have finished years ago, but I wanted

    my dissertation to rhyme.

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Oh Dad!  We're ALL Devo!

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Kath: Can he be present at the birth of his child?

Ed: It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present

    at the conception.

        -- Joe Orton, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"

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Kids have *_____never* taken guidance from their parents.  If you could

travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the

original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate

teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for

grubs and berries like dad primate.  Then you'd see the primate

teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.

        -- Dave Barry, "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"

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Zounds!  I was never so bethumped with words

since I first called my brother's father dad.

        -- William Shakespeare, "Kind John"

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Traveling through New England, a motorist stopped for gas in a tiny village.

"What's this place called?" he asked the station attendant.

    "All depends," the native drawled.  "Do you mean by them that has

to live in this dad-blamed, moth-eaten, dust-covered, one-hoss dump, or

by them that's merely enjoying its quaint and picturesque rustic charms

for a short spell?"

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I went home with a waitress,

The way I always do.

How I was I to know?

She was with the Russians too.

I was gambling in Havana,

I took a little risk.

Send lawyers, guns, and money,

>Dad, get me out of this.

        -- Warren Zevon, "Lawyers, Guns and Money"

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After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new

folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or

speaker of intuitive likes".

        -- Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, on X the intuitiveness of a Mac interface

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After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new

folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or

speaker of intuitive likes".

(Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X the

intuitiveness of a Mac interface.)

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MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY MEETINGS still are a source of strength to me.  I

remember we'd all get into the car -- I forget what kind it was -- and

drive and drive.

I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some bees there. The

smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we

played.  I remember a bigger, older guy whom we called "Dad."  We'd eat

some stuff or not and then I think we went home.

I guess some things never leave you.

        -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.

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Walt:    Dad, what's gradual school?

Garp:    Gradual school?

Walt:    Yeah.  Mom says her work's more fun now that she's teaching

    gradual school.

Garp:    Oh.  Well, gradual school is someplace you go and gradually

    find out that you don't want to go to school anymore.

        -- The World According To Garp

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I want to marry a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad.

        -- Freud

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One bright Sunday morning, in the shadows of the steeple,

By the Relief Office, I seen my people;

As they stood there hungry, I stood there whistling,

This land was made for you and me.

Nobody living can ever stop me,

As I go walking that freedom highway;

Nobody living can ever make me turn back,

This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking, I saw a sign there,

And on the sign it said: "No Trespassing."

But on the other side, it didn't say nothing,

That side was made for you and me.

        -- Woody Guthrie, "This Land Is Your Land" (verses 4, 6, 7)

    [If you ever wondered why Arlo was so anti-establishment when his dad</p>

     wrote such wonderful patriotic songs, the answer is that you haven't

     heard all of Woody's songs]

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    A boy spent years collecting postage stamps.  The girl next door bought

an album too, and started her own collection.  "Dad, she buys everything I've

bought, and it's taken all the fun out of it for me.  I'm quitting."  Don't,

son, remember, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of philately.'"

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The father, passing through his son's college town late one evening on a

business trip, thought he would pay his boy a suprise visit.  Arriving at the

lad's fraternity house, dad rapped loudly on the door.  After several minutes

of knocking, a sleepy voice drifted down from a second-floor window,

    "Whaddaya want?"

    "Does Ramsey Duncan live here?" asked the father.

    "Yeah," replied the voice.  "Dump him on the front porch."

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Well, my daddy left home when I was three,

And he didn't leave much for Ma and me,

Just and old guitar an'a empty bottle of booze.

Now I don't blame him 'cause he ran and hid,

But the meanest thing that he ever did,

Was before he left he went and named me Sue.

...

But I made me a vow to the moon and the stars,

I'd search the honkey tonks and the bars,

And kill the man that give me that awful name.

It was Gatlinburg in mid-July,

I'd just hit town and my throat was dry,

Thought I'd stop and have myself a brew,

At an old saloon on a street of mud,

Sitting at a table, dealing stud,

Sat that dirty (bleep) that named me Sue.

...

Now, I knew that snake was my own sweet Dad,

From a wornout picture that my Mother had,

And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye...

        -- Johnny Cash, "A Boy Named Sue"

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I tell ya, I was an ugly kid.  I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's

picture that came with the wallet he bought.

        -- Rodney Dangerfield

Fortune Cookie

You know you're getting old when you're Dad, and you're measuring your daughter

for camp clothes, and there are certain measurements only her mother is allowed

to take.

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I used to be such a sweet sweet thing, 'til they got a hold of me,

I opened doors for little old ladies, I helped the blind to see,

I got no friends 'cause they read the papers, they can't be seen,

With me, and I'm feelin' real shot down,

And I'm, uh, feelin' mean,

    No more, Mr. Nice Guy,

    No more, Mr. Clean,

    No more, Mr. Nice Guy,

They say "He's sick, he's obscene".

My dog bit me on the leg today, my cat clawed my eyes,

Ma's been thrown out of the social circle, and Dad has to hide,

I went to church, incognito, when everybody rose,

The reverend Smithy, he recognized me,

And punched me in the nose, he said,

(chorus)

He said "You're sick, you're obscene".

        -- Alice Cooper, "No More Mr. Nice Guy"

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"Tom, it don't make no difference. I ain't everybody, and I can't _stand_ it. It's awful to be tied up so. And grub comes too easy--I don't take no interest in vittles, that way. I got to ask to go a-fishing; I got to ask to go in a-swimming--dern'd if I hain't got to ask to do everything. Well, I'd got to talk so nice it wasn't no comfort--I'd got to go up in the attic and rip out awhile, every day, to git a taste in my mouth, or I'd a died, Tom. The widder wouldn't let me smoke; she wouldn't let me yell, she wouldn't let me gape, nor stretch, nor scratch, before folks--" [Then with a spasm of special irritation and injury]--"And dad fetch it, she prayed all the time! I never see such a woman! I _had_ to shove, Tom--I just had to. And besides, that school's going to open, and I'd a had to go to it--well, I wouldn't stand _that_, Tom. Looky-here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time. Now these clothes suits me, and this bar'l suits me, and I ain't ever going to shake 'em any more. Tom, I wouldn't ever got into all this trouble if it hadn't 'a' ben for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your'n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes--not many times, becuz I don't give a dern for a thing 'thout it's tollable hard to git--and you go and beg off for me with the widder."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"I doan k'yer what de widder say, he _warn't_ no wise man nuther. He had some er de dad-fetchedes' ways I ever see. Does you know 'bout dat chile dat he 'uz gwyne to chop in two?"

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Blame de point! I reck'n I knows what I knows. En mine you, de _real_ pint is down furder—it's down deeper. It lays in de way Sollermun was raised. You take a man dat's got on'y one or two chillen; is dat man gwyne to be waseful o' chillen? No, he ain't; he can't 'ford it. _He_ know how to value 'em. But you take a man dat's got 'bout five million chillen runnin' roun' de house, en it's diffunt. _He_ as soon chop a chile in two as a cat. Dey's plenty mo'. A chile er two, mo' er less, warn't no consekens to Sollermun, dad fatch him!"

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

>Daddy always said that days had to be embraced, enjoyed, used. Otherwise, they would multiply into months and years that would mock you from afar –

T. Lynn Ocean

"'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let me have 200 pounds?'

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks

"I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street.

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Die vernunftige Welt ist als ein grosses unsterbliches Individuum zu betrachten, das unaufhaltsam das Nothwendige bewirkt und dadurch sich sogar uber das Zufallige zum Herrn macht=--The rational world is to be regarded as a great immortal individuality, that is ever working out for us the necessary (_i.e._, an order which all must submit to), and thereby makes itself lord and master of everything contingent (or accidental).

_Goethe._

"Dad fetch it, how is I gwyne to dream all dat in ten minutes?"

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Dad fetch it! This comes of playing hookey and doing everything a feller's told _not_ to do. I might a been good, like Sid, if I'd a tried--but no, I wouldn't, of course. But if ever I get off this time, I lay I'll just _waller_ in Sunday-schools!" And Tom began to snuffle a little.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The age difference between us didn’t matter to me. Maybe I did have daddy issues.

Pepper Winters

"Mars Sid, you'll say I's a fool, but if I didn't b'lieve I see most a million dogs, er devils, er some'n, I wisht I may die right heah in dese tracks. I did, mos' sholy. Mars Sid, I _felt_ um—I _felt_ um, sah; dey was all over me. Dad fetch it, I jis' wisht I could git my han's on one er dem witches jis' wunst—on'y jis' wunst—it's all I'd ast. But mos'ly I wisht dey'd lemme 'lone, I does."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I wear this Saint Christopher medal sometimes because — I'm Jewish — but my boyfriend is Catholic. It was cute, the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn't burn through my skin, it will protect me. Who cares? Different religions. The only time it's an issue, I suppose, would be like if you're having a baby and you've got to figure out how you want to raise it. Which still wouldn't be an issue for us, because we'd be … honest, and just say, you know, like, "Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!"

Sarah Silverman

Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and then the king he shoved in and got off some of his usual rubbage, and at last the job was through, and the undertaker begun to sneak up on the coffin with his screw-driver. I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast. So there I was! I didn't know whether the money was in there or not. So, says I, s'pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly?—now how do I know whether to write to Mary Jane or not? S'pose she dug him up and didn't find nothing, what would she think of me? Blame it, I says, I might get hunted up and jailed; I'd better lay low and keep dark, and not write at all; the thing's awful mixed now; trying to better it, I've worsened it a hundred times, and I wish to goodness I'd just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business!

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive who had known dad in the old days in Victoria."

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you not, dad?" she asked.

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"Oh, it's de dad-blame' witches, sah, en I wisht I was dead, I do. Dey's awluz at it, sah, en dey do mos' kill me, dey sk'yers me so. Please to don't tell nobody 'bout it sah, er ole Mars Silas he'll scole me; 'kase he say dey _ain't_ no witches. I jis' wish to goodness he was heah now—_den_ what would he say! I jis' bet he couldn' fine no way to git aroun' it _dis_ time. But it's awluz jis' so; people dat's _sot_, stays sot; dey won't look into noth'n'en fine it out f'r deyselves, en when _you_ fine it out en tell um 'bout it, dey doan' b'lieve you."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

>Dadivas quebrantan penas=--Gifts dissolve rocks.

_Sp. Pr._

   "Daddy, Daddy, make

    Santa Claus go away!"

               "I can't, son;

            he's grown too

            powerful."

                     "HO HO HO!"

        -- Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre

Fortune Cookie

The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age,

But that don't bother me none; in my eyes you're everything.

I know I keep you amused,

But I feel I'm being used.

Oh, Maggie, I wish I'd never seen your face.

You took me away from home,

Just to save you from being alone;

You stole my heart, and that's what really hurts.

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school,

Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool,

Or find myself a rock 'n' roll band,

That needs a helping hand,

Oh, Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face.

You made a first-class fool out of me,

But I'm as blind as a fool can be.

You stole my soul, and that's a pain I can do without.

        -- Rod Stewart, "Maggie May"

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Well, we're big rock singers, we've got golden fingers,

And we're loved everywhere we go.

We sing about beauty, and we sing about truth,

At ten thousand dollars a show.

We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills,

But the thrill we've never known,

Is the thrill that'll get'cha, when you get your picture,

On the cover of the Rolling Stone.

I got a freaky old lady, name of Cole King Katie,

Who embroiders on my jeans.

I got my poor old gray-haired daddy,

Drivin' my limousine.

Now it's all designed, to blow our minds,

But our minds won't be really be blown;

Like the blow that'll get'cha, when you get your picture,

On the cover of the Rolling Stone.

We got a lot of little, teen-aged, blue-eyed groupies,

Who'll do anything we say.

We got a genuine Indian guru, that's teachin' us a better way.

We got all the friends that money can buy,

So we never have to be alone.

And we keep gettin' richer, but we can't get our picture,

On the cover of the Rolling Stone.

        -- Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

        [As a note, they eventually DID make the cover of RS. Ed.]

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The difference between us is not very far,

cruising for burgers in daddy's new car.

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Coach: How's it going, Norm?

Norm:  Daddy's rich and Momma's good lookin'.

        -- Cheers, Truce or Consequences

Sam:   What's up, Norm?

Norm:  My nipples.  It's freezing out there.

        -- Cheers, Coach Returns to Action

Coach: What's the story, Norm?

Norm:  Thirsty guy walks into a bar.  You finish it.

        -- Cheers, Endless Slumper

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On the night before her family moved from Kansas to California, the little

girl knelt by her bed to say her prayers.  "God bless Mommy and Daddy and

Keith and Kim," she said.  As she began to get up, she quickly added, "Oh,

and God, this is goodbye.  We're moving to Hollywood."

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    A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did

for a living.  "Tim, you be first," she said.  "What does your mother do

all day?"

    Tim stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor."

    "That's wonderful.  How about you, Amie?"

    Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a

mailman."

    "Thank you, Amie," said the teacher.  "What about your father, Billy?"

    Billy proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy plays piano in a

whorehouse."

    The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography.

Later that day she went to Billy's house and rang the bell.  Billy's father

answered the door.  The teacher explained what his son had said and demanded

an explanation.

    Billy's father replied, "Well, I'm really an attorney.  But how do

you explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old child?"

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    Proposed Country & Western Song Titles

She Ain't Much to See, but She Looks Good Through the Bottom of a Glass

If Fingerprints Showed Up On Skin, I Wonder Who's I'd Find On You

I'm Ashamed to be Here, but Not Ashamed Enough to Leave

It's Commode Huggin' Time In The Valley

If You Want to Keep the Beer Real Cold, Put It Next to My Ex-wife's Heart

If You Get the Feeling That I Don't Love You, Feel Again

I'm Ashamed To Be Here, But Not Ashamed Enough To Leave

It's the Bottle Against the Bible in the Battle For Daddy's Soul

My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Miss Him

Don't Cut Any More Wood, Baby, 'Cause I'll Be Comin' Home With A Load

I Loved Her Face, But I Left Her Behind For You

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alta, v:    To change; make or become different; modify.

ansa, v:    A spoken or written reply, as to a question.

baa, n:        A place people meet to have a few drinks.

Baaston, n:    The capital of Massachusetts.

baaba, n:    One whose business is to cut or trim hair or beards.

beea, n:    An alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops, often

            found in baas.

caaa, n:    An automobile.

centa, n:    A point around which something revolves; axis.  (Or

            someone involved with the Knicks.)

chouda, n:    A thick seafood soup, often in a milk base.

>dada, n:    Information, esp. information organized for analysis or

            computation.

        -- Massachewsetts Unabridged Dictionary

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It is on inundation canals such as these that the whole cultivation of Sind depends. In 1878 the area was about 1,500,000 acres; in 1896-1897 it had increased to 2,484,000 acres. This increase was not due to famine in Sind, for that rainless province depends always on the Indus, as Egypt does on the Nile, and where there is no rainfall there can be no drought. But the famine prices obtained for agricultural produce doubtless gave an impetus to cultivation. In Sind, too, there is room for much increase of irrigation. It has been proposed to construct two new canals, the Jamrao and the Shikárpur, and to improve and extend three existing canals--Nasrat, Naulakhi and Dad. The total cost of these five projects, some of which are now in progress, was estimated at [R]x. 1,596,682, and the extension of irrigation at 660,563 acres. Entry: V

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 7 "Ireland" to "Isabey, Jean Baptiste"     1910-1911

Coach: What would you say to a beer, Normie?

Norm:  Daddy wuvs you.

        -- Cheers, The Mail Goes to Jail

Sam:  What'd you like, Normie?

Norm: A reason to live.  Gimme another beer.

        -- Cheers, Behind Every Great Man

Sam:  What will you have, Norm?

Norm: Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy.  I'll take a glass of whatever

      comes out of that tap.

Sam:  Oh, looks like beer, Norm.

Norm: Call me Mister Lucky.

        -- Cheers, The Executive's Executioner

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HORMIZD, or HORMIZDAS, the name of five kings of the Sassanid dynasty (see PERSIA: _Ancient History_). The name is another form of Ahuramazda or Ormuzd (Ormazd), which under the Sassanids became a common personal name and was borne not only by many generals and officials of their time (it therefore occurs very often on Persian seals), but even by the pope of Rome noticed above. It is strictly an abbreviation of Hormuzd-dad, "given by Ormuzd," which form is preserved by Agathias iv. 24-25 as name of King Hormizd I. and II. ([Greek: Hormisdatês]). Entry: HORMIZD

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus"     1910-1911

sugar daddy, n.:

    A man who can afford to raise cain.

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Norbert Weiner was the subject of many dotty professor stories.  Weiner was, in

fact, very absent minded.  The following story is told about him: when they

moved from Cambridge to Newton his wife, knowing that he would be absolutely

useless on the move, packed him off to MIT while she directed the move.  Since

she was certain that he would forget that they had moved and where they had

moved to, she wrote down the new address on a piece of paper, and gave it to

him.  Naturally, in the course of the day, an insight occurred to him.  He

reached in his pocket, found a piece of paper on which he furiously scribbled

some notes, thought it over, decided there was a fallacy in his idea, and

threw the piece of paper away.  At the end of the day he went home (to the

old address in Cambridge, of course).  When he got there he realized that they

had moved, that he had no idea where they had moved to, and that the piece of

paper with the address was long gone.  Fortunately inspiration struck.  There

was a young girl on the street and he conceived the idea of asking her where

he had moved to, saying, "Excuse me, perhaps you know me.  I'm Norbert Weiner

and we've just moved.  Would you know where we've moved to?"  To which the

young girl replied, "Yes, Daddy, Mommy thought you would forget."

    The capper to the story is that I asked his daughter (the girl in the

story) about the truth of the story, many years later.  She said that it wasn't

quite true -- that he never forgot who his children were!  The rest of it,

however, was pretty close to what actually happened...

        -- Richard Harter

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