>>When I was a teenager, and went out and stayed up late, and had to be up in the morning, my mum would say, "You can't burn the candle at both ends."
>>I'd say, "You can ... if you hold it horizontally"
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>Orson Bean used to tell the story of having dinner and not finishing his vegetables. His mother would say "Eat! Children in Ethiopia are starving". He's respond, "Name three!"

Who's Orson Bean?

God, I must have been a smart-arsed brat. When my mum would say "A child in Biafra would give his right arm for that" I would say "Well send it to him and ask for his arm by return of post" (My ma would chuckle - it's a wonder I have any ears left without their being constantly "clipped"!), or "Well let him eat his arm then; he'll get more meat off it than this".

I wonder why my daughter is developing this trait.