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Why and How
Lynne Low
Howard Low
Who said that & Why
100

He named his vehicle "Queen Anne's Revenge"

Who is Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard

100
  • Why did we dig a ditch across the backyard and what was it called?

To prevent flooding of the basement; the Panama Canal.

100
  • You should never read in the car, because of this: 

What is "You’ll hurt your eyes."

100

His coolest car ever was named this

What is "jenny"

100
  • “If you can smoke, why can’t I?” ( mid 1960s) 

Ricky, to Dad, to get him to stop?

200
  • The nickname given by the descendents of Harry Love to their grandfather whom they never met.

Saint Harry

200
  • This experience caused Dad to insist on fire drills.

The fire on the Third Floor at Central Avenue.

200
  • Her favorite solitaire game was played with the whole deck, but with these removed. 

What are aces

200
  • Howard felt that you didn’t need a lift ticket when you could always do this

What is "Herring Bone"

200
  • “Only I can hit my sister.” 

Duncan, defending Wendy from Paul Burns.

300

Lynne credited her grandmother with doing this to keep healthy.

Either: 

What is taking an aspirin a day

or

What is walking the hill to the movies every day.

300
  • Why did Mom run screaming and crying into 501 Seneca Park Avenue?

Because Ricky was hanging from his heels 20 feet up a pine tree.

300

To make a point, Lynne did this while sailing.

What is Jumped in Lake Erie.

300

When he left University of Michigan, he figured he would become this:

A ski bum

300

 “Yes, that's right. Chocolate milk does come from Brown Cows.” ~1965

Mom, finally sick of having to be the one who we depended on to correct Dad's jokes.

400

Nicolino escaped the pope's revenge  by doing this:

What is hiding under fish in a boat to Sardinia.

400
  • Why did the Skippy Man like us so much?

We gave him a jar of cold water, and refilled it regularly.

400

Lynne was recruited to invite these people to dinner

Who are the Florences

400
  • Howard Low had this in common with Prince Phillip, consort of Queen Elizabeth:

What is Helming a Dragon.He travelled with his father on jobs to small factories.

400

“Her name is:  I. Wanda Hughes Kissinger, now.”

Dad, because the worse the pun, the better he liked it.

500

This was the career not taken for Muriel Gardner Low

What is a classical singer.

500
  • Why did Dad call a relative in the beginning of April, 1979?

He called Uncle Frank to prank him about Three Mile Island.

500
  • When she was little, she slept in the attic and would jump far out from the bed because of this: 

What is She thought there were wolves under it

500
  • Howard knew all the back roads of New York because of this experience

What  is He travelled with his father on jobs to small factories.

500

“You want I should beat him up?”~1972

Duncan, to comfort Wendy when she broke up with Todd McCarthy.