Anybody knows me, knows I got a big mouth. So it ain’t much of a surprise when every once in a while my foot ends up in my mouth and I say somethin’ really, really, stupid – I admit it. Most of them times I don’t realize there’s anything wrong with what I’m sayin’. [Read …
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To tell ya the truth, I knew there was somethin’ wrong with the furnace about two weeks before Minnie did. There was one morning I woke up and went downstairs before everybody else and put the tea on. Of course, it was before seven in the morning, so it’s still completely dark outside, and holy …
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When I came home last week and told Minnie I got a good deal on a chicken, she thought nothin’ of it. See, everybody knows my buddy Murph is a fella who knows how to get his hands on things. So it’s nothin’ strange for me to come home every once in a while with somethin’ …
I mentioned last week how every time a politician came around knockin’ on the door I’d jump up hopin’ it was somebody sellin’ Girl Guide cookies. Well, what I didn’t tell yis is I had a foolproof master plan for gettin’ my hands on all the Girl Guide cookies I could find this year. But …
Ah, fall. That magical time of year when the leaves change colour and drop while election signs of all colours spring up. Ya run to answer the knock at the door after supper thinkin’ its finally somebody sellin’ Girl Guide cookies only to discover some tool with a big fake smile shakin’ your hand and beamin’ …
There’s nothin’ worse than a summer cold, I says to Minnie, sittin’ at the kitchen table all choked up with my nose runnin’ off my face and my eyes all red and about a dozen balls of kleenex on the table in front of me. [Read more]
Minnie’s been tryin’ to get me to eat vegetables and healthy stuff for years but so far I’ve been pretty good at gettin’ out of it most of the time. Nowadays, she knows I hate that stuff, but years ago I had to be sneaky about not eatin’ it because I didn’t want to hurt …
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Ah, the first week of school. Every other year, it always went like this: The week before the first day of class, Little Bill stays up all night playin’ video games in his room and tries to sleep the whole next day away until sometime around 1:00 in the afternoon Minnie storms halfways upstairs with …
My buddy Murph is a good fella to have a few drinks with, because he got an awful temper, he’s terrible at tellin’ stories and he’ll argue with pretty much anybody about anything. [Read more]
I don’t know if you ever fell down a flight of stairs in high heels in a dress, but it hurts, I can tell ya. [Read more]
John McNeil 