“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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He would feel bad if one of them died.
He died in February. It's news to Jason. Where did he even get this news?
You are Jorge were in the woods together?
Crickets.
Grasshoppers....
Oh. Sorry!
But no one important died (except King Faud, apparently - I missed that one too)!
Dear Katie,
That is frickin' hilarious!
r. :)
Generally, the celeb deaths where I'm the MOST out of the loop are the ones that take place when I'm out of the country. When I was in Europe (with Katie) for a month in '99, Dano Plato bit it. (Who? Kimberley from Diff'rent Strokes). Asia '00 was Rocket Richard.
But the worst - this past October, on our honeymoon (on the cruise ship) we found out about Christopher Reeve about 1.5 weeks after the rest of the world; we caught a repeat of Leno where Robin Williams was talking about CR in the past tense. We looked at each other and asked "Umm...did CR die?"