OM45GE - Posted - 10/11/2019:  15:09:27

busload of Flemish tourists into my living room.

They demanded

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/11/2019:  15:18:14

Brussels sprouts washed down with Orval Trappist Ale.

When I gave them cabbage and Guinness

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/12/2019:  01:28:32

They realized being Irish is better than Flemish

And proceeded to

OldBlindGuy - Posted - 10/12/2019:  03:17:14

construct sentences beginning with conjunctions while ignoring the use of periods.

Such things would have caused my English teacher

OM45GE - Posted - 10/12/2019:  04:09:17

to suffer an apoplectic fit.

She was sent into a rage by something as simple as

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/12/2019:  07:09:52

a dangling participle.

Her math skills, however,

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/12/2019:  08:40:20

Sucked marvelously

She couldn't even

yeoldbanjoguy - Posted - 10/12/2019:  09:24:08

Tell the difference between cosine and cosign.

Not that it really mattered, because

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/12/2019:  09:43:54

her sign was Pisces and her codependent “partner” Arthur was a Leo.

Never let it be said

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/12/2019:  10:14:06

That you are a better violist than banjoist

Because the misconceptions

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/12/2019:  10:41:28

proliferate and roll downhill. 

That means the Soap Box Derby

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OM45GE - Posted - 10/12/2019:  11:04:57

is the very definition of codependent.

I'm sure the kids

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/12/2019:  11:13:49

Will pale in comparison

When you finally

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/12/2019:  11:14:55

haven’t a clue what we mean.

It’s just as well, then, because

OM45GE - Posted - 10/12/2019:  11:17:42

we understand, it means we've descended to the same depths and can no longer feign any superiority.

That leaves us

OldBlindGuy - Posted - 10/12/2019:  11:36:34

stranded in the snow without jumper cables.

Speaking of creeks and paddles,

yeoldbanjoguy - Posted - 10/12/2019:  12:21:01

I have a creeky floor board that id like to paddle.

Once you have the proper

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/12/2019:  12:26:09

Equipment to repair it

You'll need 

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chuckv97 - Posted - 10/12/2019:  13:44:20

to learn how to read complete sentences found in Otto’s “Do-It-Urself” manual.

Otto once blew up

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/12/2019:  14:31:02

a pressure cooker trying to cook a pot roast.

The resulting blast

OM45GE - Posted - 10/12/2019:  17:11:45

left him deaf in one ear and unable to hear in the other.

It blew his toupee into

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/12/2019:  17:39:36

his wife’s corset that was drying near the oven.



What a shock she got when

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OM45GE - Posted - 10/12/2019:  17:43:20

put it on.

Her screams could be heard

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/12/2019:  22:19:16

a block away.

She thought it was

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/13/2019:  02:17:56

A woodchuck

Speaking of which

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/13/2019:  06:48:46

I heard that Punxatawney Phil eloped last week.

The two lovebirds (I use that term loosely) have been spotted

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/13/2019:  08:36:49

But they haven't spotted their shadows yet

Which begs the question

OM45GE - Posted - 10/13/2019:  09:31:51

, who among us actually believe that a large rodent can predict the weather?

If you can answer that for me,

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/13/2019:  09:39:11

Then I'll explain the deepest secrets of life

Like why Peggy

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/13/2019:  18:18:25

Seeger never gets credit for being a great banjo player.

Perhaps it’s because

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/13/2019:  19:09:03

she decided to avoid the trappings of “Seeger-infamy” and sailed across the ocean blue.

Pete, Mike and Peggy were urban hicks

OM45GE - Posted - 10/14/2019:  02:47:25

but we don’t hold that against them.

We do hold

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/14/2019:  03:02:35

These truths to be self-evident

That all banjo

OM45GE - Posted - 10/14/2019:  03:37:41

players are created equal.

Some are more equal than others, but

OldBlindGuy - Posted - 10/14/2019:  04:05:24

it all adds up.

There's thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville and they can

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/14/2019:  04:11:43

wash cars with the best of’em.

They like to be called “cats”

OM45GE - Posted - 10/14/2019:  04:31:20

but many of them resemble manatees far more than they do any cat I’ve seen.

They all aspire to

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/14/2019:  06:43:38

One day make more than minimum wage

But they don't

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/14/2019:  08:13:24

give a lick (hoho) about fame and fortune.

They just hobnob with

yeoldbanjoguy - Posted - 10/14/2019:  08:49:13

Rich, famous tv types.

If you listen real close...you

OM45GE - Posted - 10/14/2019:  09:42:22

can hear their hopes slowly fading.

They won’t admit

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/14/2019:  09:49:50

to Ma and Pa that their dreams have crashed on the shoals of reality.

Pa always said “Don’t

OldBlindGuy - Posted - 10/14/2019:  10:01:41

give up the ship."

Pa was never in the Navy, but he watched a lot of

Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/14/2019:  10:20:59

Detective shows on TV

Unfortunately it didn't

OM45GE - Posted - 10/14/2019:  10:29:29

help him in the real world.

He had a string of

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/14/2019:  11:18:41

blunders, missed opportunities, and wild capers.

Ma always told him

OM45GE - Posted - 10/14/2019:  11:25:55

at least you make an excellent bad example for the children. 



I think he thought she

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Dragonslayer - Posted - 10/14/2019:  13:20:11

Was serious

Because he

OldBlindGuy - Posted - 10/14/2019:  13:38:14

insists on beginning sentences with conjunctions, creating a properly structured sentence becomes more difficult.



I don't really like to work that hard at

Edited by - OldBlindGuy on 10/14/2019 13:47:53