What happens to the MS brain after watching Craig Ferguson on TV

January 31, 2008

One of my cousins came over this evening (read a.m.) and we started

to watch the Late, Late Show, with Craig Ferguson who is definitely

truly nuts, a lot nuttier than me or my cousin, which may be why we

enjoy it.

Somewhere through a particularly baudy portion of the program where

Craig carries on about the alleged national obsession of the Germans

with nudity (well, at the beaches, it is o.k.), my cousin turned to me,

and said, " Hey, your parents took vacations at nudist camps, didn't

they? " Well, as several of us kids had discovered by raiding the

family photograph collection, this was indeed true, but I had not known

that he had known about it. He is a cousin on my mother's side of the

family.

So, He said to me, " Didn't you think that it was odd that your mother

(his aunt) was so very correct in her use of language, and yet had rather

a baudy taste in other things? " I asked whether he meant nudity, and

he admitted that he did have that in mind. My parents were eternally,

madly in love, and rather obvious about it--all of us in the family joked

about it, cousins included. So we speculated as to whether my mother

might have enjoyed Craig Ferguson's humor. We decided that she de

finitely would have. Besides, as my cousin pointed out, his use of the

language is quite good!

Seems like an odd thing to be talking about in the wee hours, but he

plans to stay until the show is over. We just ended up tittering about

my mother who was just plain dotty over handsome men, men with

intellects, and men who were witty--which explains why she was

just ga-ga over my husband, Hans.

The kicker here is that this cousin, a 71-year-old man, also has MS.

I explained to him the creative aspects of the MS brain; he is still

sort of tittering to himself while watching Craig Ferguson.

Nice to provide so much pleasure for him at so little cost;

besides, he brough a late dinner at about 10:00 p.m.

Night-nighty! (I do realize that it is now morning),

love to you all,

n

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