Heh. Ooops. Punday Night, Tall Tales, More
Man, I am really suckin’ hind tit at getting these puns up on time. What can I say? Mondays suck. Without further ado, today’s pun is brought to you by Scottobear.
And, from the folks at American Folklore, your tall tale:
Pecos Bill Rides A Tornado
Now everyone in the West knows that Pecos Bill could ride anything. No bronco could throw him, no sir! Fact is, I only heard of Bill getting’ throwed once in his whole career as a cowboy. Yep, it was that time he was up Kansas way and decided to ride him a tornado.
Now Bill wasn’t gonna ride jest any tornado, no ma’am. He waited for the biggest gol-durned tornado you ever saw. It was turning the sky black and green, and roaring so loud it woke up the farmers away over in China. Well, Bill jest grabbed that there tornado, pushed it to the ground and jumped on its back. The tornado whipped and whirled and sidewinded and generally cussed its bad luck all the way down to Texas. Tied the rivers into knots, flattened all the forests so bad they had to rename one place the Staked Plains. But Bill jest rode along all calm-like, give it an occasional jab with his spurs.
Finally, that tornado decided it wasn’t getting this cowboy off its back no-how. So it headed west to California and jest rained itself out. Made so much water it washed out the Grand Canyon. That tornado was down to practically nothing when Bill finally fell off. He hit the ground so hard it sank below sea level. Folks call the spot Death Valley.
Anyway, that’s how rodeo got started. Though most cowboys stick to broncos these days.
Right. Holidays will be over soon, and I’ll be re-assuming a less grueling work schedule, and will hopefully be able to farm the ‘Net for better puns, and offer original tales.
Our Christmas was lovely. For my stepson’s Christmas, we had bought him a new TV and DVD/CD player combo unit, as well as some other bedroom furniture. Christmas Eve we set up his room with the new gadgets and furniture, and wrapped his door shut. He loved it. It went over so well — I was really pleased.
Christmas with the family was excellent as well. My mother made a beautiful scrapbook for me (and one for my brother, too). It started out with Mom and Dad’s wedding, and then went all through my life in photos, up to my wedding. It was full of baby pictures, and dress-up pictures, Christmas pictures — just a really wonderful present. We ate a great meal, and had an excellent time. It was a very good Christmas!
December 28th, 2005 at 6:34 am
Interesting! I didn’t know you used blogger as well as LJ! (Techncrai emailed me that my name was being used in a new place)
any reason why you switch back and forth?
December 29th, 2005 at 8:52 am
When I got my gmail account, I noticed that blogger was one of the Google options, and I made an account to see what the system was like. Personal entries go in the friends-locked LJ, and no one I know personally really gets to read that one. That one’s mostly for the venting I don’t do out in real life. More public entries go here, funny stuff, little stories, political and religious opinions, stuff I don’t mind the whole world seeing.
January 8th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Hi,
I read your blog. It was interesting. Blogging is fun.
Regards,
Wood Bedroom Furniture
January 15th, 2006 at 9:58 am
Thanks! Blogging is fun. I’m not buying your crappy furniture.