And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Those root beer floats were awesome. There was a A&W less than a mile away from where we lived, but visits were rare and far between. We were of humble means.
We hosted an exchange student (Argentina) back when our kids were in high school. She has worked for a number of years in New York in finance and I consider her to be my "semi-daughter".
Anyway, she'd been with us for 6, maybe 7 months and one day she asked me "Is root beer, beer?". We laughed a bit at the missed-in-translation idea that root beer is a soft drink, and does not contain alcohol.
She then asked "What is this 'Dr. Pepper' that I see everywhere, and what does it taste like?"
The go-to for my 4 kids and for my 9 grands.
ReplyDeleteDaleC in Idaho
been a long time, maybe 40 year
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Johnny's hot dogs in Buttzville, N.J.
ReplyDeleteThose root beer floats were awesome. There was a A&W less than a mile away from where we lived, but visits were rare and far between. We were of humble means.
ReplyDeleteWe hosted an exchange student (Argentina) back when our kids were in high school. She has worked for a number of years in New York in finance and I consider her to be my "semi-daughter".
ReplyDeleteAnyway, she'd been with us for 6, maybe 7 months and one day she asked me "Is root beer, beer?". We laughed a bit at the missed-in-translation idea that root beer is a soft drink, and does not contain alcohol.
She then asked "What is this 'Dr. Pepper' that I see everywhere, and what does it taste like?"
azlibertarian
YUMMY!!!
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