My dad, Lonnie, had a lot of skills: auto mechanic, aircraft mechanic, small aircraft pilot, welder, torchcutter, and storyteller. You can see how most of those overlap quite a bit. So it was a great surprise when he told me he had taken typing when he was in high school. It came out like this: […]
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President Truman was a musician and a Missourian. However, he didn’t care much for our state song, The Missouri Waltz: “It’s a ragtime song and if you let me say what I think–I don’t give a [expletive deleted] about it, but I can’t say it out loud because it’s the song of Missouri. It’s as […]
Warning: this story is not for the squeamish. My friend Timmy was driving down the road. He was also just getting over a cold, and he had to cough. When he coughed, he coughed up some phlegm. While he would have normally just spat it out the window, he hesitated, as he had just washed his […]
Q: How do you know that Paul and Barnabas were Baptists? A: Acts 15:39 “And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other.”
Several years ago Jimmy, Timmy, and I were discussing profanity. Jimmy, who almost never uses profanity, mentioned this: “I don’t like to swear; however, I really like the word ‘#$@*!‘ It just sounds cool.” Later in the day while we were getting ready to leave for lunch, Jimmy was taking a long time and we […]
My dad had a funny sense of humor. One time we were passing a church with three crosses on it, and he made this observation: “You know, that one thief went straight to Hell, but he still gets his cross on the church.”
“I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live in Jerusalem.” –Israeli Government Press Director Daniel Seamen, commenting on the Obama administration’s demand that Israel stop building in areas it acquired in the Six Day War.
n. the epithet ‘jerk’ when pronounced with a non-rhotic accent; rhymes with ‘buck.’ Example: “Pahk the cah in the Hahvad Yahd, ya juhk.”
I wish to apologize to the people who sat behind us at the spring concert at the middle school. It was quite rude of us to schedule and play a concert right in the middle of your conversation. My only regret is that we didn’t pick a more intuitive location for a concert other than […]