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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Most every evening over the past several years, bore witness to a playful war between Anna and Tad. The issue has to do with whether the family is sitting down to "dinner" or "supper", and the shots fired are the inevitable repetitions of "thank-you for <b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>DINNER</span></b> Mommie" and "Yes, thank-you for <b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>SUPPER</span></b> Mommie". Those of us who have not taken "sides" simply grin at the sheer persistence of these two, day after day, and in appreciation of the positive means they have chosen to carry on their little war.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Those in the "supper" camp, call in their defense, on the dictionary definition of the word which states that supper is the last meal of the day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tad loves to engage in debate and word and logic plays and took up the challenge immediately. He also cites the dictionary definition in support of his view. If you are sitting down to dinner, then clearly you haven't eaten it yet, which makes any meal eaten earlier the last meal of the day, but certainly not the current meal. Furthermore, should anyone have a snack later, this meal would again no longer be the last. In fact, because this term can in fact, be applied to any meal eaten during the day including breakfast, it is therefore a generic term and thus is not the appropriate term for use in a specific instance such as thanking Mom for a specific meal. Finally Tad calls on Christian tradition in his defense. He points out that Christians have for 2,000 years, maintained that "suppers" no longer exist. . . ever since "The Last Supper".<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>