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To: epicure who wrote (92066)	12/27/2004 12:35:06 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Cookoo clocks! I make the sign of the cross at you. They are worse than Opium perfume. When the boys were about 3 and 5, we visited the Amish country in Ohio one summer with the in-laws and went to see the World's Largest Cuckoo Clock in Wilmot. cardcow.com The boys were fascinated and sat in front of it for a very long time and CW decided that he wanted nothing more than his own cuckoo clock for Christmas. The inlaws obliged, and great was the joyeux that noel when he opened a huge box from Ohio containing a small cuckoo clock. Now you may not know this about me, but I have the ears of a fox. I also have an incredible sense of smell but that is a different story. If I stay in a home with a grandfather clock anywhere in the house, I get up and stop it in the middle of the night, and have alienated many nice people doing so but at 3 am I don't care. I believe my inlaws were getting even because I had broken, they CLAIM, an antique captain's clock by stopping it at 3 am one night. Because I love my child, I did the best I could; I got out the white noise maker we used for CW when he was an infant insomniac. I needn't have worried though. CW was an incorrigible destroyer of all things mechanical. Within a few days he had decided he had to find out what happened to that bird INSIDE the little house (like did it have a bed and maybe a tv to pass the time between cuckoos?) and he crawled on top of his dresser to the clock and took it apart. I noticed later in the day that it was very quiet, that my nerves were jumping on the hour in anticipation but not hearing that damned cuckoo. I went upstairs and found the little bird on the floor. Dead. CW when questioned just gave us the blank look he reserved for all such incidents. I did not punish him. The clock never worked again. Not that I tried very hard to have it repaired. Do you actually have working cuckoo clocks in your house? HOw do you sleep?

To: epicure who wrote (92066)	12/28/2004 1:17:12 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Do I like cuckoo clocks? Yes, I think I do. I only have a small one that we got at a garage sale, and it is painted, not stained wood like the really nice ones. It is made in Germany, but of the tacky touristy souvenir sort. It hangs in the kitchen on my kitschy wall with a folk art paper towel holder with a hand-painted barn on it, painted bread planks with strange pioneer folk on them (I must be attracted to paint), and a little wooden plaque in the shape of a dog bone I bought at a tulip farm that says "In this house, dog hair is a condiment!" I would like to collect a whole bunch of cuckoo clocks so that they could spring out in unison and scare the chickens I hope to have one day, the chickens that will lay an egg here and there and die of old age. I also am attracted to those bird clocks where a different bird warbles at the top of every hour. I guess all of this fits in with my love of chaos.