My youngest sister, Ellen, is queen of Malaproprisms ... she has been known to say things like ... "She was built like a shit brick..."

But her most famous display happened when she was 8 years old (she's now 41)and brought home a note for permission to watch a film "On Girls and Their Periods." My mother thought she was too young but my father said she should go if all the other little girls were going.

Ellen went to her movie and later that evening I, my middle sister, and Ellen were sitting on my bed discussing the day. I asked Ellen what she had learned in school that day. She said ...

"We learned all about the menushkashay. Once a month an egg goes from the odorous to the universe and you get the menushkashay."

moonchild