Breakfast for irish alter boys
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 19 08:34:26 CDT 2001
Altered Altar boys?
Terrance wrote:
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> Mom says, "The navy taught my sons drink and profanity."
>
> But we know that the church taught us drink. We were alter
> boys. After delivering
> newspapers we hurried over to the church. We could get in
> two masses before classes. In those days we would drink
> alter wine. We liked funerals best because we would miss a
> class or two, drink a little wine, inhale the incense, and
> get tips that exceeded the tips we could make in a week
> delivering papers.
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