....enough for a while about elections, candidates, propositions and the like.

....last week, Pat and I were remembering the humorous and thoughtful things our Moms would say everyday.

Below are a just a few...

....every tooth in his mouth should fall out except one and that one should hurt.

....offer it up.

....you have so much dirt in your ears, potatoes can grow.

....if its too good, its bad for you.

....when I put medicine on a scrape and it hurts, it is helping to heal it. If it doesn't hurt, it is doing no good.

....a shot must make you sick to do any good.

....look but don't touch.

....this car sounds as if it were put together with chewing gum.

....the faster you go on this road the longer you have to wait at the next stop light.

....boys should bathe everyday; girls as needed.

....a home without love is like a delicatessen without meat.

....turn on the light; you'll hurt your eyes.

....turn off the lights; do you pay the bill?

....if you don't watch your figure, boys won't either.

....a bagel is a doughnut dipped in cement.

....everything is so expensive these days; even a penney stick of gum is selling for 2 cents.

....I read somewhere that a salmon lays 3000 eggs a year. Like your father, nobody remembers her on Mother's Day.

....I can't remember the brand but I can hum a few bars from the commercial.

....the main reason we have so much traffic in Indianapolis is automobiles.

....if you think you have problems the harmonica player next door has chapped lips.

....eat your lima beans. Remember the starving children in Armenia would gobble them up.

....you don't need new sneakers. Just knot those broken laces. And stop pulling off your shoes without untying those good laces. And if you don't untie those shoe laces BEFORE you put on your shoes, you'll break down the heel am I'm not going to buy you new shoes.

....stop fighting with your brother. Someday he'll get big enough to hit you back.
....I don't care if this white shirt and red tie are too tight. You are supposed to wear it to Assembly today.

....ask your father about girls in high school. I wouldn't know.

....if you don't go to church on Sunday, you wont' go to Heaven and see your brother and sister someday.

....and, if you did what I told you to do the first time, I wouldn't have to nag, nag, nag.

....Pat's Mom died 3 years ago at 86 and is buried in Indianapolis; my Mom (God Bless her) at 94, is in a home for the aged in New Jersey. Pat and I try to visit both our Moms' about 3 or 4 times a year.