<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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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>