Happy! - Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)

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Happy! - Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)

20 Jan 06 - 03:00 PM (#1652163)
Subject: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: Abby Sale

In Bulgaria it's Babin Den;
Jan 20 is Grandmother's Day.

Happy Grandmother's Day!


          Never hit your granny with a shovel,
          It leaves a bad impression on her mind,
          In some other way impart,
          All the love that's in your heart,
          And remember that she may retort in kind.
  
                  "Never Hit Granny," DigTrad filename[ HITGRANN
  
  ALSO:
          Granny's in the cellar,
          I'm surprised you canna smell her
          Baking biscuits on her damned old dirty stove
          In her eye there is some matter,
          It keeps dripping in the batter
          And she whistles while the [sniff] runs doon her nose.
  
          Give me that...ho-o-ome cooking...
  
                  As learned from Roy Williamson (1936-1990) one ceilidh night at Hillend in 1968
                  Also in A Prairie Home Companion Folksong Book by Marcia & Jon Pankake, 1988

20 Jan 06 - 09:58 PM (#1652492)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: GUEST,Joe_F

Cosher Bailey had a grandma, Who could play the grand pianna, And she also played the fiddle, Down the sides and up the middle. Did you ever see, Did you ever see, Did you ever see Such a funny thing before?

--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net

||: When a Scotsman moves to England, it raises the average of intelligence in both countries. :||

21 Jan 06 - 08:44 AM (#1652722)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: Snuffy

YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNIE aff the bus

21 Jan 06 - 08:53 AM (#1652724)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: GUEST, Grannie

Who invented Grandmother's Day? What about grandfathers? Uncles? Great uncles? Aunts? Great aunts? Cousins? Second cousins? . . .
And how long has there been a Grandmother's Day - I've been a grandmother for nearly nineteen years and it's the first I've heard of it.

21 Jan 06 - 10:55 AM (#1652780)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: Abby Sale

I take it you're not Bulgarian?

In many folk societies Grandmother has a special relationship to grandchildren, especially to grandson. Unique. Sometimes play-sexual, sometimes motherly, sometimes financial (see the complex relationships created in some Australian Aborigine traditions).

But, as we've been reminded, Grannie, nobody should shove you off a bus. You might take some comfort in that.

21 Jan 06 - 11:00 AM (#1652788)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: GUEST, Grannie

I wasn't questioning the value of grandmothers - my relationship with my grandson is playful, motherly, financial, and he is a good friend. It's just this 'Day' that comes as a surprise.

21 Jan 06 - 11:58 AM (#1652822)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: Manitas_at_home

Hallmark or Clinton Cards.

22 Mar 09 - 05:15 PM (#2594775)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: GUEST,Me

We have it in Poland too

23 Mar 09 - 04:46 PM (#2595570)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: topical tom

Happy Day to all you Grammaws out there in Mudcat land!

21 Mar 10 - 04:48 AM (#2868460)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: GUEST,Loretta Awosika Osakwe

Am going 2 be 18 in may, my grandmother raised me from birth till i was 12 and then i moved to live wit my grandfather and i have been thinking of a way 2 say thank u and i figured if i had 2 create a day in favour of somebody, it would be grandmother's day...i love my grandmother...now dat i knw there is grandmother's day i wont 4get it next year.

21 Mar 10 - 03:27 PM (#2868750)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: open mike

ha! i didn't know there was a day for grandparents..but here it is:
National Grandparents Day is a secular holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Sunday after Labor Day.

probably invented by hallmark cards...

05 Jun 11 - 01:25 PM (#3165518)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 20 (Grandmother's Day)
From: GUEST

I am a children's book author and wrote a beautiful story titled Grandma's Love, published March 2011. It would be the ideal book for anyone's grandmother. Why wait until next year!