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Por Openers...
Straight Talk:
Ask A Child
dad. He's the dirty one in our fami-
a wildlife merit badge, Mr. Schecter
hildren are endless sources
ly."
pointed
out an adult osprey on a
of wonderful, uncluttered
* Who's the boss in your family?"
dead tree limb in a wooded wetland.
views of the world. They
"My dad's the boss. If I want to
The osprey was tearing at a fish it
say exactly what's on their
go
somewhere
and
I
ask
had caught earlier and he gave an
minds; they openly question
my
dad
he
says
yes;
then
I
impromptu lesson on osprey behav-
what they see without
can
go
if
my
mom
lets
ior. At this point one of the girls
regard for consequences.
me."
borrowed his binoculars, noted that
Children, especially the
On
the
subject
of
table
the
fish being eaten was orange in
very young, are frank,
manners, children were
color and seriously announced, "The
unafraid and seem to see
most emphatic with the
osprey is eating lox!"
life in a refreshingly honest
following
responses:
Out of the mouths of ...
way.
Don't
throw
food
under
My daughter revealed
the table if there's not a
early on her interest in art
dog
there because it will
when she observed, "Look
SY
rot.
at the sky at sunset. God
MANELLO
Never throw pie in the
sure must have great
by Martha Jo Fleischman
Editorial Assistant company's face.
crayons in his box!"
- Don't use your shirt for
To put us back in touch
There once was a fish
a
napkin
when
your mother's look-
with some of this innocence, here
known as Blau
are some anecdotes from Kids Say the ing.
Who carped every day
Don't put your food into other
Darndest Things by Art Linkletter.
at his frau.
people's
drinks.
* "What do you want to be?"
He got boiling mad one day,
The following anecdote was sub-:
"A policeman."
and I'm sad to say
mitted
by Jonathan Schecter, the
"What's the most important thing
he's gefilte* fish now!
park ranger/naturalist from West
to remember to be a good police-
Bloomfield Parks and Recreation:
man?"
While he was leading a group of
"Don't wet your bed."
Girl
Scouts on a nature program for
* "Do you know where the tooth
fairy gets all the money to put under
pillows?"
"I think she robs a bank some
place!"
* "How would you change your
"Ultimately, I'd like to see the Jewish Community Center be a place that
parents if you had a magic wand?"
creates a neighborhood of memories."
"I'd make them both my size and
— Executive Director David Sorkin, in the midst of a $25 million
I'd make them sweet tempered and
capital/endowment drive.
kind."
* "What does your dad do?"
"What a night, when your rabbi wins an Oscar."
"He's a cop and a bartender. First
— Academy Awards host Billy Crystal after Rabbi Marvin Hier of the
he gets people happy and then he
Simon Wiesenthal Center won an Academy Award for The Long Way
arrests them."
Home, a Holocaust documentary.
"My dad's a fireman and he likes
his job cause all the big fires happen
"Dear God, take Henny, please."
on his day off."
— Rabbi Noach Valley,
* "Did you take a bath last
speaking at comedian Henny Youngman's funeral.
night?"
"Nope. I'm saving the soap for my
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