Everything You Wanted to Know About Monica

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Monicas
Mennonite Heritage

• (But Were Too Afraid to Ask)

Monica J. Chattaway LIBR 500 winkmonalisa_at_yahoo.ca
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A Mennonite is not

• A mutant fish

• A nightclub only for men

• A womans way of saying she has a headache

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A Mennonite Is

• A lover of zwieback
• A person who says na ya incessantly
• A person whose hackles rise at the mention of the
  word inbreeding

Hi, Im Menno Simons!
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I owe my Mennoniteness to My Mothers Side of the
Family, the Sawatzkys
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My Mothers particular brand of Mennonite culture
is informed by many different countries

• My Mother was born in Russia in a community that
  spoke only German
• During the war her family escaped to Paraguay
• As a result, my family speaks Russian, Low
  German, and Spanish

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Mennonites Like to Eat
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Mennonites Like to Make Jokes, Such as

• QWhy are they building a wall around Steinbach,
  Manitoba?
• A To stop the spread of Abes
• Q Why dont Mennonites make love standing up?
• A Because it might lead to dancing.

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And speaking of dancing, Mennonites can have fun
too!

• They dance!
• They sing!
• They wear fashionable lederhosen!

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No, this is not the Von Trapp Family Singers!
This is my Mother and her very musical family in
Paraguay.
No, this is not the Von Trapp Family Singers!
This is my Mother and her very musical family in
Paraguay.
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My Mother and her Family eventually moved to
Canada, and lived in a little farmhouse in
Aldergrove
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My Mother met my Father, and even though he
wasnt Mennonite, and had funky worldly
sideburns, she decided to marry him
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My Uncle Jacob says thatMennonites are
reallyRebel Catholics

• Quite frankly, I dont think hed know a rebel
  if one pulled his suspender straps!

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This ere rebel was born in 1972

• They named her Monica
• She showed her rebellious streak right away
• She refused to eat pablum
• She would only eat rock-hard zwieback

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Her rebellious streak made her a bit of a poser,
sometimes.
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Uncle Jacob doesnt want any more publicity, so
Id better end this here, na ya?

• Zo,das ist das Ende!