1. Erma Bombeck - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Erma Louise Bombeck (February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996), born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck

Erma Bombeck From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Erma Louise Bombeck February 21 April 22 ), born Erma Fiste , was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life in the second half of the 20th century. Contents Life and career Books Quotes External links ... edit Life and career Born in Dayton, Ohio , Bombeck graduated from the University of Dayton in with a degree in English . She started her career in as a reporter for the Dayton Journal Herald , but after marrying school administrator Bill Bombeck, a college friend, she left the job and raised three children. As the children grew she started writing At Wit's End , telling self-deprecating tales about the life of a housewife. It debuted in the Kettering-Oakwood Times in . She was paid $3 per column. Growing popularity led At Wit's End to be nationally syndicated in , and eventually it ran three times a week in more than 700 newspapers. The column was collected in many best-selling books, and her fame was such that a television sitcom was based on her. The series

2. Erma Bombeck - Wikiquote Erma Louise (Harris) Bombeck (February 21, 1927 April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck

Erma Bombeck From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Erma Louise (Harris) Bombeck February 21 ... April 22 ) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life in the second half of the 20th century. edit Unsourced A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with the outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. A friend doesn't go on a diet because you're fat. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend; and he's a priest. All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpet is one of them. Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. Big deal! I'm used to dust. Erma Bombeck's requested epitaph Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

3. Erma Bombeck Erma Bombeck. Erma Bombeck AKA Erma Louise Fiste. Born 21Feb-1927 Forever, Erma Best-Loved Writing from America s Favorite Humorist (1996, humor) http://www.nndb.com/people/054/000104739/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Erma Bombeck AKA Erma Louise Fiste Born: 21-Feb Birthplace: Dayton, OH Died: 22-Apr Location of death: San Francisco, CA Cause of death: Complications of Surgery Remains: Buried, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Columnist , Author, TV Personality Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Grass is Always Greener Father: (crane operator) Sister: Thelma (half sister) Husband: Bill Bombeck (m. Aug-1949) Daughter: Betsy (adopted 1953) Son: Andrew (b. 1955) Son: Matthew (b. 1958) High School: Patterson Vocational High School (1944) University: Ohio University, Athens, OH University: BA English, University of Dayton (1949) Administrator: Board of Trustees, University of Dayton (1984-87) American Cancer Society Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Converted to Catholicism ... Kidney Transplant 3-Apr-1996 Risk Factors: Breast Cancer TELEVISION Good Morning America Official Website: http://www.ermamuseum.org/

4. Erma Bombeck: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati Today I ran across an interesting quote by Erma Bombeck There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child http://technorati.com/tag/Erma Bombeck

Find out what the market is buzzing about in Business Join Sign in Help ... Blogger Central 26 posts tagged Erma Bombeck Subscribe Posts Blogs Videos Photos search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) Erma Bombeck on Christmas http://www.girlscantwhat.com/ 2007/ 12/ 30/ erma-bombeck-on-christmas/ Originally published January 1, 1987… No one loves a Christmas tree on Jan. 1. The wonderful soft branches that the family couldn’t wait to get inside to smell have turned into rapiers that jab you. The wonderful blinking lights that Daddy arranged by branch and color have knotted themselves hopelessly around crumbling brownery and have to be severed with a bread knife. 22 days ago by drummergirl in Girls Can’t WHAT?

5. ERMA BOMBECK Erma Bombeck spent the next twentyseven years writing first newspaper columns and then books that touched the lives and hearts of not only American women, http://www.speakingofstories.org/Author Bios/erma_bombeck.htm

Speaking of Stories transforming stories from the page to the stage Who We Are Next Performance Performances Tickets ... Home ERMA BOMBECK Dayton native Erma Louise Fiste was only thirteen years old when she wrote her first newspaper column, which appeared in the Emerson Junior High School Owl. Erma knew early on that she would become a writer. That dream grew as Erma attended high school; while there, she wrote a column for the student newspaper. At fifteen, she managed to get a job as a copygirl for the Dayton Herald newspaper. At this time she met Bill Bombeck, who was a copyboy on the morning paper, the Dayton Journal . Upon high school graduation, she mostly wrote obituaries for the newly-merged Journal Herald . After a year, with enough in her savings account, Erma attended Ohio University in Athens . Her stepfather was in the Army overseas and her mother insisted that she return to Dayton . She enrolled at the University of Dayton , where her writing was recognized and encouraged. Upon graduating from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Erma signed on with the

6. Erma Bombeck Erma Louise (Harris) Bombeck (1927April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home http://celebrities.adoption.com/famous/erma-bombeck.html

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8. Quotes From Erma Bombeck Comments on marriage, coffee, housework, mothers, advice, the empty nest, graduation, baseball, and travel. http://www.geocities.com/hotsprings/spa/9599/quotes.html

Quotes from Erma Bombeck Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him. My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows. Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter productivity. There's a territorial ritual to an aerobics class. I entered a class for the first time a few years ago and ended up where no one wanted to be...in the front row next to the mirror. It was three years before I could work my way to the back row.

9. Erma Bombeck Quotes Alphabetical listing of quotes with the first few words of each one. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/erma_bombeck.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Erma Bombeck Quotes Type: Journalist Quotes Category: American Journalist Quotes Date of Birth: February 21 Date of Death: April 22 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Erma Bombeck Related Authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Kin Hubbard Bob Woodward ... Steve Powers A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Erma Bombeck A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. Erma Bombeck All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. Erma Bombeck Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. Erma Bombeck Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Erma Bombeck Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

10. Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop The official Web site of the erma bombeck Writers Workshop the spot for humor and human interest writers sponsored by the University of Dayton. http://www.flighthumor.org/

@import url(http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css); Dear writer: I just finished watching Judy Carter's Comedy Career in a Box and it's one of the best programs for humor writers I've ever seen. Judy is author of The Comedy Bible and has taught standup comedy workshops in Los Angeles for years. Now she's put her workshop on DVDs six hours worth and is selling the complete set for $225. The set includes step-by-step comedy instruction by Judy as well as industry trade secrets from 18 of Hollywood's top managers, agents, casting directors, bookers and producers. The DVDs are broken down into three sections: Creating Killer Comedy Material, How Not to Bomb and Making Money by Being Funny. There's also a bonus CD with writing and performing exercises.(You can watch clips from the programs here If you want to break into stand-up comedy, you won't find a better place to begin than Comedy Career in a Box. But even if you plan to stick to humor writing, this is a must-have program. When my first book was published, I did a lot of speaking engagements and book signings. I quickly discovered that most of my writing didn't translate well from the written page to the spoken word. I had to rewrite it. If I had Comedy Career in a Box, the entire process would have been much simpler.

11. If I Had My Life To Live Over By Erma Bombeck Inspiring words about how to live our lives more fully and freely by erma bombeck. http://www.kalimunro.com/If_I_Had_My_Life_To_Live_Over.html

If I Had My Life To Live Over by Erma Bombeck The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out that she had cancer. If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth. I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. I would have cried and laughed less while watching television - and more while watching life. I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband. I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.

12. Erma Bombeck Quotes Quotes by erma bombeck part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women. http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_erma_bombeck.htm

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13. Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996) - Find A Grave Memorial Photographs of the late humorist, her gravesite in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/3722.html

14. Erma Bombeck Online As a British expat, I failed to recognize the name erma bombeck. And it was only after I began to rave about her books that I learned that poor erma, http://www.ermabombeck.com/

Erma Bombeck Online The home for all things Erma! Feb. 21, 1927 - Apr. 22, 1996 Erma Bombeck online is currently in development. To be notified when we go live, join our mailing list: Your Name Your Email Address Before we had Oprah there was Erma. Essay: Are we not housewives? by Sophie Butcher Erma Bombeck is still the most relevant and hilarious voice in the wilderness of motherhood I picked up a copy of "Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession" in a thrift store the other day. The title made me laugh, as it must have made millions of other book buyers laugh many, many years ago. As a British ex-pat, I failed to recognize the name Erma Bombeck. And it was only after I began to rave about her books that I learned that poor Erma, despite her bestselling past, is now considered by many to be a relic, an out-of-date purveyor of politically incorrect advice on mothering and housekeeping. While she may have been amusing for a decade or so, Erma Bombeck, I now know, is no longer an appropriate humorist for today's mothers. She is instead a caricature of women as they should not be. But approached with an untainted mind, Erma Bombeck's writing is honest, timeless and wickedly humorous. What woman with both a sense of humor and children could possibly reject titles like "I Lost Everything in the Postnatal Depression" and "The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank"? What mother could reject without a pang of empathy or relief Bombeck's frequent admissions of being an imperfect and slovenly mum? And for the dwindling but proud regiment of less-than-perfect mothers, she is something of a voice in the wilderness a patron saint, if you will.

15. To Erma Bombeck On Mothers' Day Midlife Moments columnist Mike Bellah pays tribute to America s funniest mother, erma bombeck. http://www.bestyears.com/ermabombeck.html

with Mike Bellah She was the funniest mother in America and, quite possibly, the most insightful. For over 30 years Erma Bombeck made us laugh; she also made us think. "I never ironed my husband’s pajamas. And if I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children’s eyes, they’d flinch and call their attorney." Erma Bombeck " I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing." -Erma Bombeck To Erma Bombeck on Mothers’ Day She was the funniest mother in America and, quite possibly, the most insightful. For over 30 years Erma Bombeck made us laugh; she also made us think. On this Mothers’ Day, I want to pay tribute to my favorite columnist who died two years ago last month at a much-too-young 69. And what better way to honor Bombeck than to share her own words on her own favorite subject, motherhood. What kind of mother would . . . ? Bombeck liked to poke fun at those who overly idealized mothers, people (usually mothers-to-be or first-time mothers blessed with a compliant child) whose unrealistic and perfectionistic notions encouraged them to condemn those who did not measure up. Quoting the words of one such pharisee, Bombeck wrote, "Did you see the story in the paper about the woman who forgot one of her children in a laundromat restroom? She dares call herself a mother! How disgusting! What kind of mother would . . .?"

16. Erma Bombeck — Infoplease.com February 21 Birthdays W. H. Auden February 21 birthdays W. H. Auden, Hubert de Givenchy, erma bombeck, Robert Mugabe, Otto Hermann Kahn, http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0762075.html

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17. Erma Bombeck Quotes - The Quotations Page erma bombeck; A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriendand he s a priest. erma bombeck; Anybody who watches three games of football in a row http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Erma_Bombeck/

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18. Washington Centerville Public Library - Erma Bombeck Writing Competition The 2008 erma bombeck Writing Competition is now open! erma bombeck Writing Competition erma bombeck in the process by entering this year s competition! http://www.wclibrary.info/erma/index.asp

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19. Bombeck, Erma Louise --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on bombeck, erma Louise US humorist (b. Feb. 21, 1927, Dayton, Ohiod. April 22, 1996, San Francisco, Calif. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9113073/Bombeck-Erma-Louise

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20. Erma Bombeck Quotes And Quotations erma bombeck quotes , amusing and funny quotations. http://www.amusingquotes.com/h/b/Erma_Bombeck_1.htm

AmusingQuotes.com Search Quotes: Home New Quotes Erma Bombeck Quotes Pages: (1927 - 1996) - American author, humorist. - Click icon to send that quote to a friend. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. I come from family where gravy is considered a beverage. When humor goes, there goes civilization. A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go into overload and blow up. Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. Email this page of Erma Bombeck quotations to a friend. Find Related Products on Amazon By Subjects A B C D ... Z By Authors A B C D ... Funny Quotes

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