9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 01, 2005

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"Shoot!...I have a hole in my cotton-picking tights." "Edda..Did you just use the term "cotton-picking"?" "Yes...I spent 187 years in stir at a catholic school where the sisters would go into mauve paroxysms if you just stuck your finger in your ear. Needless to say, it took me eons to realize I could say things like "cotton-picking" without incurring the wrath of the almighty." "So I reiterate, there's a hole in my cotton-picking tights." ""Cotton-pickin'"?" "Forgive me, sister! I used an apostrophe." "No matter how far tey fly, guilt always brings them back to mama."