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Random messages and thread continuations welcome here!

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She sounds like a well-socialized little lady. I'm sorry I haven't gotten to meet her. I haven't held any snakes in a long time. When I was a little kid I did when I found them. As I think most kids do. Thankfully, none were venomous.

Yeah, to each their own. I'm still not buying Jesper another goat for the house.

[acaseofyou]

She's back in Vegas, but if they comes out to visit I'll make sure you're properly introduced. Catching them out is good, though. We only ever tried to catch frogs.

You could always get him a stuffed one.

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Did you name them?

I think that would just keep Milo in the forefront of his mind. If I just ignore it I hope he’ll distract himself.

[acaseofyou]

I think I named them all 'Frog Junior' and all the ones Sam caught were 'Mister.'

He is highly distractable. Almost as distractable as me.

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I suppose it’s at least not frog puns.

Indeed, it’s reassuring to know I can just point to a squirrel if you two are ever conspiring.

[acaseofyou]

No, frog catching came before we developed our pun skills.

Are squirrels even nocturnal enough for that to be a game plan for you?

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When did the puns start?

Don’t underestimate any rodent is what I’d say. There's bound to be some with a disjointed sleep cycle and penchant for distraction.

[acaseofyou]

Took us a minute... I think I was 8? Summer of '51 or '52. Dad found us a book of 'em. It was terrible.

And here I was expecting you to make a joke about bats.

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8’s not that bad. I’ve seen some of those pun books, though. It’s definitely starting off at the bottom.

I thought about a pun, but couldn’t be too predictable.

[acaseofyou]

It was definitely a minor competition with us, figuring out better puns than the ones in the book. Kinda think that'd been Dad's plan the whole time, for his own personal amusement.

You say that like predictability would tamper how much I like hearing you do puns.

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Given what you said about him appreciating a lie if it was entertaining, that doesn’t surprise me.

I’ll keep that in mind the next time an opportunity arises.

[acaseofyou]

He was a singularly entertainable kind of man.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to finding opportunities for puns to give to you.

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Did he have to go to war as well?

[acaseofyou]

No. He'd got called up, right after I was born, but having factory work kept him home.

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Good for your family, it sounds like.

[acaseofyou]

It was. For other people, too. Growing up he had a lot of friends, guess they hadn't gotten out of service like he had. They came back worse for wear, and he'd go out and find 'em union work either in the mills with him or down in Bangor.

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Trying to take care of those around him, I’m starting to see a trend.

[acaseofyou]

Ha, true. I learned from the best. He's the one that gave me my first IWW songbook, too.

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That’s very sweet. Sounds like he raised you right. Do you still have it?

[acaseofyou]

I do, though I don't bring it out much. Don't want it falling apart on me, so I carry around a newer edition I bought a few years ago.

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I don’t fault you for wanting to preserve it. I’d be curious if the later translations changed anything.

[acaseofyou]

There's a few lyric changes that I noticed. Mostly it's just additions, songs and verses both. I'll have to show you sometime.

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I’d like to see it, yeah. I enjoy seeing what changes over different editions of things. I’ve actually never seen any of it, so it’ll be a first either way. I think the closest I've ever come to reading a song book was an old Kerch nursery rhyme book.

[acaseofyou]

I'll bring them both by the Slat next time I have a chance. There's notes in the margins, but you can ignore those, it's just my noodling about guitar chords or my own word changes.

Do you still have the Kerch nursery rhymes?

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What if I want to read your amendments? Or would that make you uncomfortable?

I don’t have any books left from back then, no. I have them all memorized, so there is that. Not the same, but it's something.