as a less than typical tribute to labor-day celebrations and festivities , let me start this commentary by saying as a forty five year veteran of labor…. it stinks !
sure labor creates vast expressways , monumental high rise buildings and massive sports stadiums , but what society does’nt tell you is that it also builds [...]
Archive for August, 2008
labor of love
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ray day
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
breakfast was short and sweet this morning… three current honda rejects of the booze-fighters club were in attendance… they ate like hogs.. not harley hogs , but durrocks… left the mess for big-O and ed to clenn up…they were pressed for time..had ground to cover before meeting more tri-cycle riders in st. jo.
in a [...]
gardening tips revisited
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
due to popular request , and the phenomenal success of a previous gardening tip offered here on shortfellows blog… i’m offering a second in the series of little know facts about gardening in close proximity to the courthouse…
this tip was handed down to me by fourth generation fenoglio and is sound advise for [...]
smooth sailin with sarah palin
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i’m going way out on end of a possibly hollow limb , with a chainsaw in hand , but i can’t remember when i was as excited about a political candidate as i am about palin… mc cain’s a genius… i never heard of this lady , but i’m deep seated on her band [...]
montague minor league
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
taylor caught the big bird yesterday , somewhere near winterhaven fla. , flew to cleveland then motored to niles ohio…. home of the mahoning valley scrappers…( not to be confused with jones’ es league winning team , the bowie scrappers )… where he’ll do some game pitching for the next ten days… their season is [...]
residential rhetoric
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
there’s a big brew-ha stirring concerning the quantity of mc cain’s houses and the price tag and financial provider for obama’s million dollar home.. frankly , i don’t get it !… all presidential candidate requirement rules of both political parties assure that nothing but the obscenely rich could ever seek the office to start [...]
trivia answer sheet
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1…….B
2……D
3……B
4……B
5…..C
6…..C
7…..D
8…..B
9…..D
10…..D
11…..A,B, and C
eleven correct answers entitle the winner to one free cup of coffee at the legend bank , during normal business hours…… ask for hoot !
non-sence nancy
Posted in religion on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
according to sean hannity , nancy pelosi says.. “obama is a gift from god”….really , that’s what she said…. but due to the oral statement it’s impossible to determine if she was refering to the capital “G ” God , or a lower case god… it surely must have been the later…
i’m confident the [...]
trivia test
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
the following is a trivia test to determine blog-readers loyalty… no cheating please !
#1 the term shortfellow refers to :
A. poetic similarities to longfellow.
B. height and shoe size .
C. life expectancy of a chain-smoker.
D. last year’s w-2 form.
#2 chipper’s imaginary hand-shake took place at the basket ball goal belonging to [...]
restaurant re-run
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
i made a return trip to nocona this past saturday night , just on the outside possibility that the previous favorable visit to ( time’s forgotten ) had been a fluke… but once again everything was great…i took my san antonio brother along… the south texas food critic of bul verde.. he had nothing but praise for [...]
