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Slanted Definitions

Posted on October 18, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

Peruse – For each joke Migraine – A series of crops such as wheat, quinoa, and Barley, found growing on one’s own land Filibuster – A very long and muddy racetrack for horses Paradox – Two piers to tie boats … Continue reading →

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Surrounded By Cashmere

Posted on October 16, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

“We’ll leave you some little Vienna sausages to stick the capsules in,” they had told me. The grey of the autumn morning … early morning sky … lingered over the muffled yellows and oranges of the near-Vermont foliage. I was … Continue reading →

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“Oh That Book”

Posted on October 16, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

The sports enthusiast thought that “The Catcher in the Rye” was a book about an alcoholic ballplayer. The construction worker thought “The Lord of the Flies” was a biography on the man who started Porta-Johns. Roger McManus

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Learn to Like

Posted on October 14, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

As a woman with a lit cigarette drooping from the side of her mouth tried to shovel down, without gagging, a vodka martini, rye and bourbon with tomato juice, which her friend had just handed to her, she shouted, … Continue reading →

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Sing

Posted on October 13, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

Saint Augustine said that singing praise to the Lord is like praying twice. Note from God: Only if you can carry a tune. Roger McManus

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Doubly Noted

Posted on October 9, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

The famous cartoonist was honored by his hometown when they placed a plaque bearing his name on the newly constructed drawbridge.Roger McManus

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A Fool’s Audience

Posted on October 6, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

The fool was surrounded by happy faces … and that was too bad … unless it happened to be his public execution (In reference to the fool similarly referred to as a jackass and not one that can’t help himself). Roger McManus

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Accountant

Posted on October 4, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

Accountant – The canvas structure from which Saint Peter checks out souls trying to get into heaven on rainy days … as pronounced by someone from Boston. Roger McManus

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In the Headlights

Posted on September 27, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

It was a cold, windy night, sometime in December, sometime around midnight, and the snow had begun to come down hard. On the otherwise undisturbed, frozen-muddied shoulder of the road, a car was parked with its motor still running … Continue reading →

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Weather or Not

Posted on September 26, 2013 by rogermcmanus2013

The E.R. doctor knew his nights were numbered as a part time weather man at the local television station when, with a man having been rushed into the hospital under cardiac arrest and the doctor ready with the defibrillator … Continue reading →