
The headstone of Russell J. Larson in the Logan City Cemetery, Logan, UT. (or so I was told) Death is no big deal to me, being omnipresent, it’s this world that drives me nuts the way it is.
An old prospector walked his tired old mule into a sleepy little western town one sunny afternoon. He'd been out in the desert for about six months without a drop of whiskey. He walked up to the first saloon he came to and tied his old mule to the hitching post.
As he stood there brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger walked out of the saloon. He had a shiny silver Colt .44 in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other hand as he looked at the old man and laughed. Then he said "Hey old man have you ever danced?" The old man looked up at him and said "No sir, I never did dance, I just never did want to."
Others where around and the gunslinger said "Well you old fool you're gonna dance, now." And he started shooting at the old man's feet. The old man was hopping around and everybody was laughing. The gunslinger fired his last bullet then holstered his gun and he turned around to go back into the saloon.
The old man reached up on the mule and slid his old ten-gauge shotgun out of its scabbard, then pulled both hammers back, making a distinctive clicking sound. The gunslinger heard the sound and froze in his tracks as everything on the street became deathly quiet. As he turned around and stared down both barrels of the old man's shotgun, they looked like a pair of railroad tunnels.
The old man asked him "Did you ever French kiss a mule’s Ass?" The gunslinger swallowed hard, thought for a moment, then said, "No, but I've always wanted to."
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Rodney Dangerfield's best
1 . I was so poor growing up... if I wasn't a boy... I'd have had nothing to play with .
2. A girl phoned me the other day and said, "Come on over; nobody's home. I went over. Nobody was home.
3. During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.
4. One day I came home early from work ... I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, "Hey buddy, why are you doing that?" He said, "Because you came home early."
5. It's been a rough day. I got up this morning.. put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.
6. I was such an ugly kid... When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
7. I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
8. I was such an ugly baby...My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.
9. I'm so ugly... My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
10. When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, "I'm sorry. We did everything we could, but he pulled through."
11. I'm so ugly. My mother had morning sickness... AFTER I was born.
12. I remember the time that I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
13. Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" He said, "I don't know kid. There's so many places they can hide."
14. My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
15. I'm so ugly... I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get.
16. I went to see my doctor. "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror...I feel like throwing up; What's wrong with me?" He said.."I don't know but your eyesight is perfect."
17. I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
18. With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.
19. Some dog I got. We call him Egypt because in every room he leaves a pyramid. His favorite bone is in my arm. Last night he went on the paper four times - three of those times I was reading it.
20. One year they wanted to make me a poster boy - for birth control
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Dear diary: Okay, I’m going to toot my own horn some. Well, not really, I’m going to let someone else toot it for me. Yesterday a very nice couple came by to look at my cats, she (Tarky) had asked for a kitten on Yahoo Freecycle so I responded that they could have one of mine. I let my cats come and go as they please so there wasn’t any in my place when they got here. But I went into the shop, they like to sleep in there, and found one and brought it out. They are not used to other people as they only know me and my neighbor Helen.
Well that went over like a fart in church, as soon as it spotted them it started fighting to get out of my arms, and it won. LOL …. So I went in and got another one and the same thing happened again, only they did get to touch it before it tore it’s way out of my arms. Not that I will fight them a lot, I don’t believe in holding something that doesn’t want to be held.
They had some things to do in town for an hour so I suggested that they leave their cat carrier and I would see if I could collect one. I did about ten minutes after they left. I took her over to Helen’s so she could keep her company until they got back. They wanted a smaller one and it happened to be the second smallest. I won’t give the smallest one away because her name is Helen. :-)
I assured them that I thought they would love this cat once it got adjusted to them. But !! That if it didn’t work out for them that they where more than welcome to bring her back. So far they seem to be pleased with her. Even though she got some of the spelling of our names wrong, and the age of the cat as I made it clear that she was at least seven months old, following is a message that Tarky left on Yahoo Freecycle. (We talked about other things also, so they know that I’m a New Age minister and like to do weddings.)
----- Original Message -----
From: Tarky
To: clallamcountyfreecycle@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: [ClallamCountyFreecycle] Found: Port Angeles 4 to 5 month old kitten
Thank you Billy and Helene for the beautiful female tabby, ("Star"). Mandu is giving her new sister a hard time, but I think this will pass. Jake is acting indifferently. Typical male!
Star will have a long and loving life with Eric and I. We will always take the very best care of her. Thanks again for keeping our Mandu from being lonely.
You're a wonderful man, Billy Cooke.
And part of a personal message I got from her:
Currently, Star is hiding behind our washer. LOL! But she is eating and drinking and knows where the poop box is. She'll adjust. All newcomers get razzed by their contemporaries. She sweet and she did let me hold her...she was purring. [Damn right she is sweet, I spent a lot of hours making these wild cats sweet. But they didn’t start out being assholes like the monkeys on this planet, because they had the right mentor.]
Anyway, the cats are not used to a TV and all the noise it makes. But I also went to the library and got some movies to watch. There isn’t any way they wanted to be inside when the TV was on, so I let them out. Cats are smarter than humans. LOL
But the library is getting in a series of DVD’s on the states, last night I watched Florida, it was pretty interesting. Did you know (or remember) that St. Augustine is the oldest continually lived in settlement in the country? As far as whites go that is. It was started in 1565 by Spanish Catholics. It was the first real cow county as the Spanish brought them with them, and cows are still big there. Because of the different varieties of oranges they are often processed for ten to eleven months out of the year.
When I was at Rick’s upholstery shop the other day I picked up a scrap of cowhide to bring home as he is working on a custom car, I just discovered that the cats love it. I think I will go get more scraps from him. This isn’t processed cowhide like you buy in the stores for pets, it’s the real stuff and nice and soft. I knotted a strip of it into a bundle and they just love it. And they like it if you use a strip of it to dangle and play with them.
This one cat is going wild over it, I think it is giving her the hunting instinct. That may be just as well, they will need it again after the monkey’s screw up this planet and they have to fend for themselves again.
I was dreaming about some lady and her meat loaf, so I guess I will end the year saying….. Don’t let your meat loaf…. LOL

















