At Majdac, the granny, Anica, sighs and tuts as she clears away the leftovers from a bounteous dinner.
What's more - thanks in large part to the power of Twitter - it quickly acquired a snappy name: the Granny Tax.
The project led Dr Mitra to set up the Granny Cloud, which uses volunteers - usually retired people - in the UK to teach Indian children via Skype's video chat software.
Remembered fondly here as the "blogging granny" the internet has lost one its great characters.
Labour MP Jack Dromey mocked the chancellor for describing changes to age-related benefits - dubbed the "granny tax" by commentators - as a "simplification".
At one of the bashes, the birthday granny wore a ruby- and diamond-studded necklace so big that one party-goer described it as looking like a bib.
As a first time visitor, it won't take long to notice that everyone in the city, from granny to the kids, flaunts the latest fashions proudly.
Your brother had found you that morning, lying on the floor with your hands folded across an afghan like the dozens Granny had knitted for all of us, just like we all used to do when watching TV.
In Grimm's Fairy Tales, what does the wolf do to Red Riding Hood's granny or the witch plan to do to Hansel?
And then of course the fact that everyone and granny is trying to purchase the rights to stream content means that the price of content worth streaming just goes up.
Pratchett has written more than 30 novels about the likes of Corporal Carrot, Granny Weatherwax and Gaspode the Wonder Dog.
The parking lot of Granny's Ice Cream Shanty, which is less than a mile from the crash site, was filled with emergency vehicles Saturday morning.
And for all the talk about how the GOP wants to deny Granny her federal entitlements, it is the conservative Republican in the national race, Rep. Paul Ryan, who actually has put forward a highly workable plan that would keep Social Security and Medicare alive for coming generations.
At the last hole his drive finished on Granny Clark's Wynd, the road crossing the fairway, but he hit his second off the tarmac to six feet and made it for yet another birdie.
"If we were doing the same songs - like singing 'Yae cannae shove your Granny off a bus' all the time - I wouldnae do it, " he says.
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We're not dealing with some granny somewhere in the world who says 'I want to get in'.
For comic relief, the family's boozy granny (Susan Sarandon) arrives, swathed in mink.
They're saying, well, you guys want us to take the political heat for cutting granny's Medicare, and that sort of thing.
Opening the day's debate in the Lords, Commercial Secretary to the Treasury Lord Sassoon defended the government's "granny tax" from criticism.
He argued that it was not fair to axe the higher tax threshold of "low and middle income pensioners" - the so-called "granny tax".
It is not uncommon to encounter a girl in a muumuu singing into a carrot, a Rastafarian grooving on the sidewalk or a pigtailed granny cruising around on a low-rider bike.
The tinny percussion, rhythmic acoustic guitars and wispy synth keyboard lines on "Granny's Song" give the track a certain airiness.
Even better, while the beans simmered in a pot for most of the afternoon, a hard-working woman like my great-granny could get back to washing clothes, canning, gardening and looking after the children.
So we confiscate granny's shampoo at the airport because the half-empty container could hold 3.5 ounces of liquid.
"We'll find out how much your school uniform is and we'll give that to your granny, " Malaak promised the young man.
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So the next time you want to get granny a gift, give her a WoW account and show her how her paladin can take down her undead targets with Exorcism.
She has effectively passed the grandmother test, in that even your average granny knows her name.
So, what did my granny say after I finished my spiel about the possible wonders of Botox?
For the uninitiated, Apple Corps' logo is of a ripe green Granny Smith.
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