Mom took me to visit Grandma's grave once

Post #337,362 by mhuber 12/17/10 3:35:37 AM Reply	Mom took me to visit Grandma's grave once They didn't get along so well, but that's not relevant. Probably. It had snowed, and the stone was flush to the ground, so here we are digging Grandma's grave up. But we stopped at ground level. And that's when I learned Grandma's real name. She went by Lottie. Which we all assumed was short for Charlotte. In fact, she used that in formal contexts. Nuh uh. Not Charlotte. Vladislava. Yeah, that's right. Grandma's real name is the feminized form of Dracula's real name. Actually a pretty good fit for how she treated anybody that wasn't one of her grandchildren. She was nice to us, though. --------------------------------------- I think it's perfectly clear we're in the wrong band. (Tori Amos)
Post #337,389 by Ashton 12/17/10 4:09:05 PM Reply	+6 for Nefarious Nativity! (That would have been an apt sobriquet for 'My Gramma' -- the Bircher!) But no such luck :-/ Amazing how a one's Wonderful-Selfmight have been descended ... from some psychotic strain of bonobo, eh?
Post #337,506 by mhuber 12/21/10 2:52:48 AM Reply	I think our grammas would have gotten along Although mine used to take the Soviet point of view. She liked the authoritarianism, and she liked upsetting my grandfather. It is an odd thing, to be loved by someone who is quite evil. --------------------------------------- I think it's perfectly clear we're in the wrong band. (Tori Amos)
Post #337,511 by Ashton 12/21/10 5:49:51 AM Reply	An astute observation.. Mine was never 'mean' to me, and perhaps not so much evil as insouciant.. in the Murican-mold of, never having attempted to empathize, even for a moment, with the objects of her derision -- I add, in 20/20 hindsight. So yeah.. an odd Thing. ie She kneweth-Not What She Do ... do ... do. The truly-Evull ones (IME) are those who appear to have coldly assessed their judgments, found these to be Revealed Truth: concluded thus that her targets are worthless/sub-human entities! (much as the Nazis, the Jews -- the unconscious-majority having failed to note the artificiality of Der Führer's entire thesis) == just fscking scapegoats, who were soo handy. Ex: Rushmouth (the Oxycontin free-base Addict) whose own craving was OK, because he's special ... then read his previous diatribes about them awful-addicts [who should be shot ~~ his obvious tacit judgment, then.] (Could most hypocrisy be just garden-variety insouciance ?!) We Paragons Want to Know!

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