Breakfast for irish alter boys

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 19 08:34:26 CDT 2001


Altered Altar boys? 

Terrance wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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