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Letter to Santa: Don’t Forget the Ammo

The morning paper brings the charming "Letters to Santa" insert. The paper leads with this entreaty from Pace of Belle Fourche:

Santa can I have a rifle ples.

Can I have a boineroples

Can I have a bebe gon

Can I have a rel 22 rifle. Can I have a big brn.

[Black Hills Pioneer, 2012.12.22, p. 18]

Perhaps spelling is the least of our problems.

8 Comments

  1. Bill Fleming 2012.12.22

    Peace on earth, good will to... well, um...

  2. Stan Gibilisco 2012.12.22

    Yup sure 'nuff, them's us hilbillys alright.

  3. larry kurtz 2012.12.22

    According to Stace Nelson: "FYI, unless he received a Dishonorable discharged, he is not an "Ex-Marine."" Thousands have been disenfranchised, yet only the few, the proud, can kill without remorse.

  4. grudznick 2012.12.22

    I wonder if somebody is just mocking with the legitimate media up there in Larry's part of the Dawes Act divided dirtpile. You would think people would be mocking with the legitimate media a lot.

  5. John 2012.12.23

    "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he shall not depart from it."
    First 9 minutes: http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-what-we-can-learn-from-lincoln/
    'The free market of unlimited violence.'
    'America's turned violence into a profit center.'

    May God help us because we're proving we're incapable of helping ourselves.

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