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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: cut tongue out
Message-ID: <2473@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 21:38:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 21:38:14 1985
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> > My mother cured me of using nasty words by threatening to cut my tongue
> > out.  (She was holding a butcher knife and told me to stick it out where
> > she could get it.)...
> 
> Not to be rude or anything, but a parent should never make a threat that
> they do not intend to follow through with.

Maybe she did intend to cut it out!  Not all mothers are sane.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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