My namesake, George Baker. A lazy Sunday means time to bring back another classic. If you’ve seen Gran Tourino, and enjoyed Eastwood’s character, you’ll understand George. Minus the racism…
Grandpa’s come up recently in conversation a couple times. We were talking about proposals. I remembered the time I asked Grandpa how he proposed to Granny.
“Uggggnnnhhh. Hmmmph. None of your damn business! gmmmmg.”
Everybody in the room cracked up.
B
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That sort of thing is definitely on a ‘need to know’ basis, B. I suspect (but here my recollection fails me) she proposed to him!! Or maybe suggested it, anyway. Anyhooooo….64 years later it wouldn’t be surprising if neither could remember. And you’re right; it’s a classic. Why not post, alongside, his Senegalese doppleganger? I always liked the universality inherent in those pictures together.
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Another funny bit to that story is that when we finally did get answers out of both granny and grandpa, they completely different stories! Granny’s had something to do with a bus stop and three proposals, and grandpa’s was set about 4 years earlier.
Love, and thanks for the funny memory.
-t
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Yeah of course your grandpa pics are classic, but I’m here to spout off about neo-liberal corporate conniving.
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Raff: so what’s your message, that Grandpa is part of some neo-liberal corporate conspiracy? Ummmm, don’t think so. I remember once, in about 1971 or ‘72 watching them burn the Bank of America at Berkley, on TV. Grandpa came into the room and I thought I was going to get an earful about ‘damned hippies’, but what he said was ‘yeah, I can understand them doing that’, or words to that effect. Surprised the hell out of me. No corporate conspiracies here, methinks.
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Doug: No, I know Grandpa’s far from corporate, or neo-liberal. I was referring to my input on cashewman in the past couple of days. The problem was that I couldn’t rant at this particular post.
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I remember that story! Typical Grandpa fashion…I guess he just didn’t want you to steal his sweet pick-up lines!!
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