Date:  Tue, 24 May 1994 08:23:08 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: pop/soda + queries



>   Also (and I think I queried this before but got no

>responses), who or what do you consider to be responsible for the

>leaves turning red or yellow in the fall?



    --My mother (who was from Weimar, Texas) told me that Jack Frost

was responsible for the change. She also told me that the Devil was

whipping his wife when it rained with the sun shining, and she never

explained why old men in cars would want to give me candy for free.



>   And what do you call it when a bunch of kids pile on top of

>each other?



    --Dangerous. We used to do this when I was a child in San Antonio,

Texas, but I don't remember any specific term for this horrible game except

for maybe "pile on." There was nothing worse than being on the bottom

breathing dust and fearing suffocation. I struggled mightily to escape

this game whenever someone hollered "PILE ON!"







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu