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Woman Keeps Pet Snowball For 33 Years
KCCI.com ^
| January 12, 2010
| staff reporter
Posted on 01/13/2010 5:16:30 AM PST by Daffynition
Prena Thomas has the usual things in the freezer of her home in Lakeland, Fla. Vegetables, pancakes and fish, she told a Tampa television station.
But she also has a snowball that she made in 1977.
Thomas said that over the decades, she has never had a power outage that would destroy the cold hunk she says is precious to her.
"It's just like a little pet," she said.
However, she does sometimes take it out of the freezer, unwrap the bread bag that contains it and shows it to friends.
TOPICS: Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dullard; napl; slownewsday; snowball
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Hunk Of Ice Stays In Bread Bag
Bless her heart.
To: Daffynition
Is she special or something?
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:17:57 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Daffynition
If that’s all it takes to make her happy, I’m happy for her.
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:18:16 AM PST
by
Rudolphus
(Tagline? I don't need no steenkin' tagline.)
To: Daffynition
> Hunk Of Ice Stays In Bread Bag
Probably just as well. Otherwise, over time, the snowball would assimilate with the rest of the frost in the freezer and become indistinguishable.
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:20:11 AM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Daffynition
If I had been her grandson, somewhere along the line I probably would have taken it out of the freezer and thrown it at one of my buddies.......LOL!
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:20:48 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
To: Rudolphus
Snow isn’t exactly a common thing down here ya know.
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:23:14 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Daffynition
somethings just work for some people, sweet story, thanks for sharing
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:24:09 AM PST
by
kauai
To: Daffynition
She must be a child of hope.
To: Daffynition
of course, she kept her husband’s body down in the freezer
for 35 years.
To: Daffynition; Larry Lucido; Cagey; MotleyGirl70; Gamecock
Mrs. Franklin Delano Romanoski?
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:31:46 AM PST
by
earlJam
To: Daffynition
However, she does sometimes take it out of the freezer, unwrap the bread bag that contains it and shows it to friendsAre her other friends snowballs, too?
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:34:04 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Daffynition
My Mother kept some monster hailstones from a 1970 storm. I found them when I was cleaning out the home freezer when we sold the family home in 1996.
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:35:26 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: cripplecreek
Is she special or something? Snow is kinda rare in places and people do things like this. I did...
It was the great Christmas Snow of 2004 in SE Texas...and we got 9" of snow. My dad was in the hospital in Houston, fighting a terminal illness, and it just killed us that he couldn't watch his grandkids play in the snow. So on Christmas morning I made him a snowball...and kept it in the freezer for when he came home.
Dad passed in April of 2005...and I clung to that snowball...until Ike hit and knocked out power for a week.
Of the things I lost...I think I miss my snowball the most.
To: Daffynition
I'll file this under "Come up with a story or YOUR FIRED".
I do hope the "staff reporter" gets over their writer's block.
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:44:36 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Rudolphus; JoeProBono; cripplecreek
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:52:12 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: DieHard the Hunter; Hot Tabasco; kauai
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:55:08 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: Daffynition
Need a bigger freezer for that one.
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posted on
01/13/2010 5:55:36 AM PST
by
Rudolphus
(Tagline? I don't need no steenkin' tagline.)
To: Daffynition
...has the usual things in the freezer of her home in Lakeland, Fla. Vegetables, pancakes and fish...
Who keeps pancakes in their freezer??
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:00:27 AM PST
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
To: Dixie Yooper
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:04:41 AM PST
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: Daffynition
Hey, if you’ve ever been to Lakeland, there’s not a whole lot more exiting than an old snowball.
(ducking ;)
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:06:07 AM PST
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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