What the women have to say about beards:

          Since growing my beard, I have asked the opinions of a good number of the ladies. Most of their comments have been favorable, and some have even thought I looked smarter. I asked one friend, and she said she was trying not to look at it. Overall, they were very positive about the beards. The one general theme was that they liked beards on any face that they didn’t have to kiss.

Don’t judge me:

          We have a rule around our house, which is that we simply don’t make judgments of other people. The only time that rule is broken is when I do something stupid, and then all bets are off.

Style and fashion:

 Golf clothes from the 70s & 80s were like women. They were very expensive and make you look like a clown.

“Life is much too important to be taken seriously.”

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Whiskers as an art form:

          For years, I have seen men create fantastic and often outrageous art work from facial hair. I finally decided to take up the challenge of growing a brush. Avon was not exactly thrilled with the idea, but as usual, she was semi-tolerant with my hair-brained idea. I thought it would make me look smarter. So far, that hasn’t worked out so well. I don’t look any smarter, but I do look like someone who would like to look smarter. I do feel smarter and go around misquoting Shakespeare and Harry Truman. You ought to hear me say, “Alas, poor Uric, I knew his smell”, or, “The bus stops here.”

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Ya Gotta Love the Girls:

            Many of you may not know it, but I volunteer as a tour guide at the Rose O’Neill home and museum a couple of days a month. Rose was the creator of the Kewpie Doll and many many other accomplishments. Google her.

            Last Friday, I was guiding a group of ladies from a tour bus through the home and found myself telling them how in the early 1900s, Rose led the trend for ladies to wear looser clothing and doing away with corsets. A shocking move, I’m sure. And I told them, as I always do, “You ladies can thank Rose O’Neill for the comfortable clothing you now wear.” And as usual the all said “Thank you Rose.”

            The ages of this group of about 30 women ran between 70 and 90, so they all had some experiences with fashion trends and as usual they started telling their stories. At that point, I usually try to get them moving on. But one of the older ladies started telling about her grandmother telling her of when they wore long dresses and multiple petticoats. When she began telling about the rubber strips they had sewn into the waist bands of their underwear, I was getting nervous. 

            She told how Granny went out on a date one evening with her boyfriend and another couple, and as they were coming out of the theater, she felt a snap. The next thing she felt was her drawers sliding down to her ankles. Someone asked “What did she do?”

            The speaker said, “She just stepped out of them under that long dress and walked away cool and comfortable.”

            The rest of the tour was a hoot as you can imagine. They cut loose and turned my ears red a few times, but I guess that means they had accepted me as just one of the girls.

“Life is much too important to be taken seriously.”

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Hard times:

          In every golf tournament I’ve ever played, you had the option to buy Mulligans (do-overs, for the non golfers). I always took a few; they’re only a couple of bucks and the money generally goes for charity. Actually, I like the idea of Mulligans because it’s like legal cheating or an okay sin. I’ve just recently noticed that pro golfer, Jason Day never takes a mulligan. Do you think that since he’s married now with a kid and another on the way; things might be getting a little tight in the wallet?

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Bygone menus:

          When I was a kid, we had simple meals, all from the 3 major food groups. There was an entrée of cholesterol, a side dish of starches, and another of carbohydrates. This didn’t change unless someone had a good day on the river, and then there was fish. My mother’s spice rack consisted of salt and pepper, and richer flavors were provided by mustard and ketchup. You can imagine my shock first time a waitress asked me if I wanted sour cream on my baked potato. For one thing, potatoes were supposed to be mashed or fried – not baked. I’m glad I tried it, but just listen to yourself say those words, “sour cream”. Now that’s disgusting! If my mother had tried to serve my anything called sour cream when I was 9, I would have been out of there and they wouldn’t have seen me until I could vote.

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Want some cheese with that whine:

          When a spouse, good friend, or someone of importance is having a bad day and groaning about it, we seem to have little tolerant sympathetic comforts that we hand out. We say things like, “Aw, poor baby, It’ll be all right, or You’ll feel better if you just forget about it.” When thing go wrong for me like falling off a roof or being buried under a truck load of gravel, Avon just shakes her head and says, “Life ain’t easy for a boy named Lou.”

Dr. Love:

This letter just came in from Bob in Keokuk, Iowa.

          Dear Dr. Love: My wife is learning to play the bagpipe. It’s the only thing she has on her mind, and all she thinks about it day and night. What can I do? Bob

          Dear Bob: Get a plaid skirt, learn to jig, and let nature take her course. DL

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Old golfers never die – they just misplace their putters:

          About 10 years ago, I was playing golf in Gulf Port, Mississippi. My group was following a foursome of 4 elderly gentlemen, and they were not especially breaking any speed records. They were all in their 80s except for Ben who was well into his 90s. We caught up to them on one hole and had to wait while they cleared the green. Ben was the last to putt out, and when he finished, he slowly trudged across the green to the cart where he sat down. One of the other players, who had watched him and waited until he was seated, yelled from the green, “Ben! Ben, you’ve done it again!” At which time, Ben got out of the cart, took the flag stick from his bag, and drug it back to the green, where he took his putter out of the hole, and replaced it with the flag.

          The rest of my group was getting impatient, but I figured Ben didn’t have that many games left in him, so have fun old fella.

         

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