BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:59 AM

Sorry Gypsy, I can't do it on demand, as it were. Inspiration only comes once in a while, not everyday.

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Gypsy
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:35 AM

That's it, Sorcha. ya gotta write a column, and get into MY newspaper, please!

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:22 AM

Those were good ones, too, Sorcha!

Mortee, I am sorry if I sounded like a little brat in my earlier post. I really thought news of her death would have been told worldwide. I didn't mean to demean your posting/feelings.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:18 AM

I just wanna go play in the dirt, and plant tomatoes, and pretend to do Spring Cleaning......and it's FebBlueBerry in WyoBraska.........snow on the ground, dirt frozen solid to 2 meters,(Gods help you if your dog dies in Winter here, well, or your mother either, for that matter)

"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

If Sprint comes, can AT and T be far behind?

"When lilacs last in the door yard bloomed", it was because my husband ran the roto tiller there....

I miss new Erma columns too!(But I made up those above, they just sounded so "Erma......", like, ya know,dude?

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Gypsy
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:07 AM

Morticia, i too, grieved when hearing of the Lady's death. (got it sooner, i'm in the states) But the rules are good ones. I got alot of them from my Grandmother, before she sunk into senility. Grandma never talked about how the bills were paid on time, how clean the house was, or if her daughter got straight A's in school. She DID talk about traveling the world with her globetrotting contractor husband, living in East Africa for 2 years, Arabia for 1 year, amid other places. She spoke of food, and people and love. When her health declined, she could warm her hands and heart over her memories. Love often, and laugh now. You may never have another chance. Or, conversly, you might be able to do it twice as much, if you start NOW.

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Katcina
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 02:56 PM

Erma will always live on in my heart and mind. She was my idol and I read her books over anytime I need to be picked up. Everyone else can have Martha Stewart, I'll take Erma Bombeck any day.

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Hollowfox
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 02:53 PM

Many of her newspaper columns were collected into more than a dozen books. I hope you can find them one place or another. I still crack up at her piece about her kid's piano lessons, learning to play March of the Porcupines."

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 12:14 PM

Morticia, I am very glad you made this post. I too found her humor to be extraoridary. Sometimes, I would cross her path when I was living in Phoenix, nice woman. She lived about a mile from my house. I think of her every time I do a load of wash containing socks. She alone explained the missing sock phenomenon in laundry.

Not to take anything away from Erma, but a certain Mudcatter has a similar flair although often ribald which she wasn't. So maybe the energy of Erma lives on here on the forum.

Thanks for reminding us of her.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 06:30 AM

It wouldn't have made the news here as she isn't at all known in the UK...I came across her when I was staying in Hawaii with my aunt.Always thought she was one of the funniest, cleverest and gentle women I'd ever read.

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 05:34 PM

Sheesh, Mortee, where've ya been? She passed away in 1996! It's okay, though, darlin'....I miss her acerbic wit and ability to take anythign mundane, write about it, and make you almost pee your pants with laughter.

Thanks for sharing the list. I'd read it a long time ago, but forgotten most of it, although that may be because I already have incorporated much of the "would haves" into my life amd I've always worn purple, none of this waiting til I am an old lady BS!

Don't be too sad, lovey...spring is just around the corner and you'll get to play in the dirt!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: In memory of Erma Bombeck
From: MMario
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 03:36 PM

I learned more about cooking as an art from her "I hate to cook book" then probably any other cookbook I have ever used.

Subject: In Memory of Erma Bombeck
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 03:33 PM

Someone e-mailed me this set of quotes and the tag at the bottom which made me desperately sad since I didn't know one of my all-time heroines had died.I wanted to share it with you as that's what I seem to do when I'm sad these days.... If I had my life to live over...

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.

I would have eaten the popcorn in the "GOOD" living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.

I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.

I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.

I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains.

I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.

I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.

Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment realizing that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner."

There would have been more "I love you's" and more "I'm sorry's" .....but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute.....look at it and really see it ... live it ... and never give it back.

In honor of women's history month and in memory of Erma Bombeck who lost her fight with cancer.