Olebiker

Hey, if Bocelli and Pavarotti are/were such great singers, how come neither of them ever made it to the Grand Ol' Opry? ;D

I'm just wondering where the septic tank is.

Avid, did you find it strange that he was reading from the sheet music? I would have thought that Ave Maria was so totally burned into his brain that he would sing it from memory.

We have a house here in Tallahassee that is so overdone with cheap Christmas decorations that everyone I know calls it "the White Trash Christmas house."

I tried it with an older Lowrance, but the wires were so tiny and delicate that they would break off at the slightest touch. I just bought a new transducer.

An older lady in our office had a heart attack when someone sent her one of those. I thought we were going to lose Mrs. Brown.

Years ago I worked in Denver with an ol' boy from Little Rock and another fella from Chicago. A beautiful young woman came into the store in a tight-fitting red, knit dress. Man, she was workin' it as she sashayed down the aisle. John from Little Rock just watched her and remarked, "Looks like a tote sack full of bobcats, don't it?" To which Dave from Chicago responded, "Gimme a hint! Is that good?"

The Gene Hackman one or the Sam Elliott one? I loved the Sam Elliott one. My favorite movie, though, would be "Breaking Away."

Man, when Linus has the house lights brought down and starts in with his recitation of the scripture, everything that seems wrong with the world seems right again. I think that is one of the highlights in television history.

I read "The Sword of Shanarra" years ago. It was a good read, but seemed to me a complete ripoff of Tolkien. You can download books on tape from our local library. I am currently listening to David McCullaugh read his "1776." Michener's "The Source" is one that everyone should read.

There's a place down the street from our cabin that serves Blue Moon in frosty 16oz mugs, with a fresh slice of orange, for only $2.25! That's cheaper than a bottle of domestic most places.

Did the technician draw a turtle for you?

Amber Bock most of the time because most restaurants carry it. If I can find it, though, I like Tilburgs Dutch Brown Ale. Now, as for you fellers putting orange slices in your beer: Man Law - Don't Fruit the Beer 8-)

Me too. I was afraid he was planning to brew up some of that nasty over-hopped, over-hyped IPA.

My UPS driver gets a tip because he knows to put any boxes from Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's, Performance Bike, or Colorado Cyclist on the back porch... hidden on the back side of the chimney... out of sight of SWMBO.

Things have changed over the years. It was great when the kids were little and would come into our bedroom about 5:00 a.m. wanting us to get up with them. This was usually after I had sung at midnight Mass and had only been asleep for a couple of hours. I'm too old for midnight Mass any more so I sing at an early Christmas Eve Mass. The girls are grown now so we just sleep in on Christmas morning. Sometime in the morning they come over with the grandbabies and we open presents then go to one of the daughters' houses for the extended family get together which includes food, a nap, and football. By the time we get home early in the evening at least one neighborhood child with a new bike will be at the door asking me to adjust something.

My brother-in-law is so dumb that he thinks rhesus monkeys are made of chocolate and peanut butter.

I don't care what smokers do to themselves. If you want to smoke, go ahead. Just don't throw your butts on the street.

I smoked a pack and a half of unfiltered Camels every day when I was younger so don't get me started on smokers. > Too late. We have an usher at church that stinks of cigarette smoke so badly that people get up and move to the other side of church to get away from his stink. Don't cars come with ash trays any more? Every intersection I stop at has piles of cigarette butts that smokers have thrown out the window. I may take up smoking again so I can get six breaks a day like all the other smokers in my shop. OK. I feel better now.

Or else?

My sister called me from Lexington, Kentucky last night all excited about Florida State and Kentucky playing in the Music City Bowl in Nashville. My kids went to FSU and hers went to Kentucky. She can't understand why we don't want to drive from Tallahassee to Nashville to the game. About the last thing I want to do in the middle of winter is drive for ten hours to sit outside in Nashville, Teneessee and watch a couple of mediocre teams play. WestPalmDude, you goin'?

I checked with SWMBO. She said no.

Fixed it for you.

Thirty minutes and he was still breathing? Man, I hate to see them suffer that long. That's why I gave up bow hunting.

Here in Florida a state tourism group is planning to use the term "Shine" as a motto. A group has complained about it since it used to be a derogatory term used towards black men.