Kat, my mother, too, said "Good-night-nurse!" My answer was, "Good night, nurse." That presentation may not come over in print. Hers was stressing each of the syllables, where mine was a mocking, almost singing version. I guess you had to be there.

It's not took strange that both your family and mine would have that phrase, because as I remember you, too, have roots in or around Rochester, Minnesota.   Or was that only Leland's branch of your family?

Dave Oesterreich