Word: aunt
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...groups who are going to feel the pinch more than anyone: Old people - "What do you mean, you want 22 cents to send this postcard!? Why, in my day, during the great war?" - and little kids - "But Mommy, I only have 21 cents from my lemonade stand! Now great aunt Edna will never get her postcard...
...Independence Day), “When I die, don’t tell anyone. Just bury me in the backyard, and tell them I left you!” In Kingdom Come, such funny one-liners are often followed by even more amusing scenes. In one particularly memorable moment, Aunt Marguerite and her son Royce are traveling in a beat-up Volkswagen beetle on their way to Mama Slocumb’s (Whoopi Goldberg) house when they run out of gas. While waiting for Ray Bud to rescue them, they begin to listen to music. In accordance with his gangsta...
Eventually, the entire family finally comes to town, and the plot, as the cliché says, thickens. Junior, Ray Bud’s unemployed brother, has been cheating on his wife Charisse, and neglecting his three wild kids. Aunt Marguerite, on the other hand, is trying to reform her youngest son and prevent him from going to the state penitentiary like his brother. Junior and Ray Bud cannot overcome their sibling rivalry, which is made evident by the WWF-style wrestling match they engage in after arguing about how much money to spend on the funeral...
...says Nampeo McKenney, who retired from the Census Bureau after a 40-year career that culminated in overseeing the CATA model. She means this in a global sense; I find it personally true from moment to moment. I can't stand the smell of chitterlings, but neither can my Aunt Ruthie, who won't allow them within a mile of her kitchen...
...There's cousin Meyer, who fled to America to escape the Cossacks, lost his entire family when the Nazis occupied his hometown in Ukraine, raised another family in the U.S. but was so saddened by America's role in Vietnam that he killed himself at 87. And there's Aunt Lily, the clan's career woman, who sold lingerie door to door and married a bookish man, suspect in the family because he "seemed to have no politics...