Re: First Contact Story

On Sep 11, 9:13 pm, Joy Beeson <jbee...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eating raw eggs (other than eggnog) had gone out of style by the time
I came along, but a scrapbook my mother made in her adolescence
(tragically lost when she moved into town) contained the original
joke. A flapper recites a long, big-worded instruction starting with
"make an aperture"; the grandmother responds with something like "Laws
sake, don't these modern marvels beat all -- in my day, we just poked
a hole in each end and sucked!"

A version appears on a page of Harper's Weekly, reproduced at

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/april/bread-riots.htm

"You see, grandmamma, we perforate an aperture in the apex, and a
corresponding aperture in the base; and by applying the egg to the
lips, and forcibly inhaling the breath, the shell is entirely
discharged of its contents." "Bless my soul," cried the old lady,
"what wonderful improvements they do make! Now, in my younger days, we
just made a hole in each end and sucked."

John Savard
.

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