Smiley Anders for June 15, 2009

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate columnist
• Published: Jun 15, 2009

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The first two items below indicate that some folks in the Frozen Nawth need to brush up on their Louisiana anthropology.

You can’t dig it
Patti Bewick, librarian at Walker High, is teaching freshmen classes this summer.

She says, “Most of the stories we read and discuss have Louisiana settings.

“Today we were reading a fictional story about a boy who lived in Morgan City and was at home with his younger sister when a bad storm hit their area.

“In the story, the boy goes down to the basement to get wood for the windows. After the worst passes, he goes to the kitchen to get a ‘soda’ for his sister.

“The workbook was published in New York. Someone needs to tell their research department that if we had basements in Louisiana homes, they would be full of water.

“And we don’t drink soda. We drink Coke, which in the South can mean Coke, Sprite, Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew. …”

Burning issue
Brenda Sharp says, “While driving to the (not so) Frozen Northland of Monroe, I was listening to a National Public Radio program about things young children had done to their parents’ cell phones.

“I was shocked to hear that cell phones have been dropped by 18-month-olds into ‘crawfish fryers.’

“I hope you’ll alert The Advocate’s readers about being very careful to keep their babies away from these devices.

“By the way, what is a crawfish fryer?”

Growing pains
Polly says, “I saw in the paper a gardening column about plants that re-seed.

“I’ve got too many of those already.