Monday

Re: Monday

The most feared object in parochial schools? ;-)

Tom

Re: Monday

I had to google, so I can't answer further without getting myself into a ticklish situation. ???

glc

Re: Monday

I might nod off if the situation wasn't so ticklish, but I don't want to spend time in the box, so I won't.

Why it's...

What the Penguin used on the Blue�s Brothers.

Mondays Answers 1 & 2

Gary and Jim got it. Scott toyed with Sister Mary Stigmata but I took that reference as a ruler or pointer, the same as Tom indicated for part one. For part two Tom got the correct number but only partial credit as a meal was only one third of the reason.

Church Stick �A device consisting of a four or five foot long stick with a rabbits foot on one end and a fox tail on the other. It was the possession of a church�s tithing-man. He patrolled the pews used the rabbits foot end to scratch at the heads of children who fell asleep during the abysmally long church services of the 19th century. The other end had a fox tail and it was used to gently (but obviously) wake elders (especially women) of the church. This was no secret or discrete action. It often caused laughter of the congregation as the sleeping party slapped away the pesky tickle device. Note: When the person did awake, the tithing man held the stick vertically tapping it to his lips as if in a defensive position. It is rumored that this is the origin of the index finger held to the lips to indicate the �shush� silence signal.

Bell tolls. Reference: Eric Sloane, American Yesterday Each day the church bell tolled three times a day--7AM which was animal chores time, Noon was people feed time, and 9PM for curfew and milking time. (There was no indication that milking was done twice a day during that time--but 7AM could work just as well.) At the end of day after the 9PM ring the bell tolled one ring for the day of the month. On Sunday, the bell tolled from when the time the preacher arrived until he passed inside the church and climbed the pulpit. You knew when you were late and so did everyone else.