[GCFL-discuss] Farmer Astronaut and Refinance Funny and etc.

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Siarlys,
Is the word "gummint" a funny word for government?
I have been reading over my saved gcfl-discuss mail and realized that's why I saved this particular one:  I have never seen the word before and it is not in dictionary.com.
Thanks in advance,
Jeanene

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From: "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net>
To: "Red" <jeanenehea at comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:04 PM
Subject: [GCFL-discuss] Farmer Astronaut and Refinance Funny and etc.


> Now don't blame me for doing all the talking. You guys could say
> something more often yourselves.
> 
> That Refinance Funny was all about my mother, so I had to forward it to
> her. May not hear back right away, because my parents are off on a
> vacation. My mother's father never bought a car without paying full price
> up front. She can't understand 30 year amortized mortgages. She (the one
> in charge of family finances, always) never went for more than 20, and
> once paid off a mortgage in 15 years. A friend who was promoting some
> credit card once tried a sales pitch on her, closing with "and its
> interest free for the first six months." My mother replied "I never pay
> interest on credit cards."
> 
> Oh, the Farmer Astronaut? Everyone knows its a new G or PG movie, right?
> I mean, if anyone doesn't know about a movie, its usually me, so if I
> know, everyone knows.
> 
> I probably would never have gone to see it if I didn't have a Little
> Brother and access to free tickets for a preview through BB/BS. But I'm
> glad I saw it. It was funny. It was not bizarre. (No, I don't classify a
> family rancher in Texas launching an Atlas rocket with himself in the
> capsule into orbit as bizarre. Fiction, but not bizarre.) Best of all, it
> got all kind of well deserved pinpricks into the Homeland Security
> Paranoia that has us collectively running around in circles afraid of our
> own shadows. Federal agencies close in because the man has been
> soliciting on the internet to buy vast quantities of highly explosive
> high grade rocket fuel. Why? To make WMD? No, he has a rocket in his barn
> and he is going to the moon. Also there is some mousy little social
> worker investigating the family as some kind of cult because all the kids
> really adore their father's passion to go into space. She intercepts mom
> at her job as a waitress at the local cafe. (Social work ceased being
> socially valuable about the time it became gummint work.)
> 
> That's my six cents worth for today.
> 
> Siarlys
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