Subj : More Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Jun 24 2021 08:01:00 Hi Daryl! DS> The late Red Skelton noted that his wife told him "If you don't DS> lose weight, I'm going to make you wear one of my girdles!!". DS> She screams "YOU TAKE OFF MY HOT WATER BOTTLE!!" . The practical portion of my brain is trying to figure out how four appendages get through the one opening of the hot waer bottle but the rest of me is enjoying the joke. BM> If the hobos flatten themselves again the side of the railcar they BM> can't be seen! DS> If they lose their grip, they lose their life. My hobos are smart and are in the inside of the boxcar! BM> We like to occasionally watch some old-old shows on TV and 'catch' now- BM> famous actors in bit parts, when they were first starting out. DS> I think of Rowan And Martin's Laugh In, when folks like Goldie DS> Hawn, JoAnn Worley, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzy, and others, got DS> their start ("You Bet Your Sweet Bippy" ). Probably worked for everyone: the comedians got a job, the network didn't have to pay them a lot because they were at the time unknowns, the viewing audience got some pretty good entertainment. BM> "By golly!" -- that's a discarded expression! DS> When the retired railroad folks saw the movie at its release, DS> they were appalled at the language. They were told "You obviously DS> haven't been around a rail yard lately". [Major train wreck] "Oh dearie, I'm afraid there has been a bit of a mishap!" DS> So, I indirectly had a part in the movie...an "extra extra". BM> Neat background! DS> It was a bear to prepare that 4x8 foot silkscreen for "the DS> check" they were given. Moving scores of those over the years, DS> likely aggravated the arthritis that's giving me so much grief DS> today. Possibly. All depends on how the body reacts to the stressors. DS> ... Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? BM> How else would we derive 'abbrv."? DS> ABRV . BM> And even left out the period! DS> PMS Jokes aren't funny --- period!! Or the radio station with DS> the callsign WPMS. It has a woman's format...one week of the DS> month, it plays ragtime, and the rest of the time, it plays the DS> blues. :P You forgot about WOMB - the voice of labour. ...Had a generous policy for food. BM> You were lured into that, hook, line and sinker! DS> Just fishing for content to keep the echo active. So many of DS> the echoes have only autopost ads for BBS's. I post mine once a DS> month, and that's it. Now, the Today In History stuff is DS> autopost, but it recycles on a yearly basis. I thought some of it looked familiar! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... History -- the stuff that happened before smart phones and Starbucks. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .