A former coworker's husband claims to have grown up with Ralph Nader..

[joeybee12]

...he was born in Winstead, CT around the same time. Said the Nader family was weird (big surprise), were never allowed to eat dessert, and when the mother did make a cake and served a piece, she took it away from Ralph and his brother when they'd only eaten a little.

Sort of sounds true, because it would explain a lot!

[yellowcanine]

1. And I'll bet his parents made him drive a Corvair to college also.

[joeybee12]

2. I bet they made him walk! n/t

[calico1]

3. Wow, he got his cake taken from him?

What kind of a wacko mom gives a kid some cake then takes it away? Strange.

I agree his childhood probably had something to do with how he turned out.

[joeybee12]

4. I know, it's one thing to NOT give a kid a piece of cake...

...but to do so only to take it back is really whacko.

[Mabus]

5. He couldn't have cake when he was a kid

so now he's trying his best to ruin our party as an adult?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. "If you don't eat your meat,

you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

Another brick in Nader's thick skull.

[joeybee12]

7. Is that from Mommy Dearest?

Where Joan brings out the rotting meat for about a week each night for Christina's dinner?

[Elidor]

8. It's from Another Brick in the Wall

Pink Floyd

[joeybee12]

10. All I know is the refrain from that song...

...interesting.

[AtomicKitten]

9. If that's true, Dahmer's parents were nicer.

[joeybee12]

12. Would it be a stretch to say that Nader's parents are responsible for more deaths?

After all, Iraq, 9-11 (I still claim that could have been rpevented with a President in office who had a brain), coal mining accidents due to not enforcing safety regs...I could go on.

[AtomicKitten]

13. that would be a stretch

Nader was a superb consumer activist.

Unfortunately his legacy will forever be being a fly in the ointment.

[joeybee12]

14. Way back when he mattered, he did matter...but especially this

year it's all about him.

[npincus]

11. he sure took our cake away in 2000.

[hfojvt]

15. you can't blame his mom for that, after all

someone left the cake out in the rain.

[joeybee12]

16. And it took so long to bake it, too! n/t

[joeybee12]

17. I gotta kick this...I think it's in-ter-est-ing! n/t