seven,
You can't imagine how much I'm loving this thread. I think if you had just been there a couple years earlier I would have enjoyed your class, too. Do you remember what year that was? Would you happen to remember if your buddy had the same initials as "Delirium Tremens." He and I used to speak in tongues to each other and most people would never guess that it wasn't a real language.
dmouse,
For some reason the picture brought back my best Bethel dining room memory. One time our breakfast cereal box contained an offer for free silverware, really good stuff, for a bunch of "General Mills" cereal boxtops. It wasn't the usual discounts from a Betty Crocker catalog, either. The cereal boxes that actually spelled out the free silverware offer was not well-known so I didn't have much competition. The sisters were more into these things than I was, but I was getting married within a year, so I recruited everyone from my table and a few other friends to blitz all the tables in each dining room immediately after dismissal. We collected a couple hundred box tops over the next couple of "cereal" days.
I had to mail my stuff out quickly, too, because even though the amount of sets offered was unlimited, the fine print said, one maling per household. Well, we all used the same address: 124 Columbia Heights even if we were at 117 or the Tower so if mine didn't go out first, then I was afraid I wouldn't get my wedding gift. I ended up getting so many matching sets of long forks, short forks, serving forks, knives and spoons of all varieties, and other assorted hardware, that we still use them today --a quarter century later.
Gamaliel
