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<DIV>Yeah, and then there's the social workers who think kids should be taken
into custody if their parents were so careless as to let them play unsupervised
twenty feet from the house where they fell down and skinned their knee...</DIV>
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<DIV>Then there's the parents who won't let their kids go out and play unless a
"play date" has been SCHEDULED!!! (Anybody remember "can Tom come out to
play?"</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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<DIV>On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:39:56 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>ROFL nice!</DIV>
<DIV>I'm overly amazed at how Sheltered my brother and I have been accused of
while growing up.<BR>Now as I'm 28 I see all these other families that I look
at and question how my childhood could EVER be called Sheltered. Some of the
wild and crazy things I see families do blows my mind, all in the name of
"protecting my kids"</DIV>
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<DIV>~Lance<BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Discussion of the
Good, Clean Funnies List <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex">OK,
enough politics until tomorrow. Anyone want to talk about
Halloween?<BR><BR>I received an email invitation from the C.S. Lewis
Foundation, which<BR>began...<BR><BR>Dear Wormwood,<BR><BR>It has recently
come to my attention that your patient is considering<BR>going on retreat at
the C.S. Lewis Foundation's Southwest Regional<BR>Retreat. This simply will
not do, particularly because the retreat takes<BR>place in a few weeks on a
weekend that's increasingly sacred to us:<BR>October 31 to November
2.<BR><BR>Rather than allowing the subject of your machinations to enjoy
the<BR>company of humans dedicated to Our Enemy Above, you should have
your<BR>patient go to Halloween festivities more in keeping with our tastes
and<BR>including the proper sort of vices.<BR><BR><BR>C.S. Lewis is worthy
of continued study, but I decline to turn Halloween,<BR>one of my favorite
holidays, over the devils, so I replied:<BR><BR>Dear Screwtape,<BR><BR>That
was a clever trick, impersonating the C.S. Lewis Foundation to trick<BR>me
into abandoning the observation of Halloween, which as YOU well
know,<BR>although you thought I was too dumb to realize it, is the
most<BR>EMBARASSING holiday of the year to you and to your "Father
Below."<BR><BR>Well Screwtape, I laugh at you, I ridicule you, I will gladly
help<BR>children dress up as ridiculous caricatures of you and your
nephew,<BR>because YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER US. Your Father, that proud if
impotent<BR>spirit, cannot bear to be mocked. And mock you all we will, as
we<BR>supervise children who will never be yours, cheerfully trick or
treating<BR>among their equally cheerful neighbors again this
year.<BR><BR><BR>The foundation's Director of Communications took the
response in good<BR>humor.<BR><BR>Siarlys</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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