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  • Throw It Back Thursday

    Throw It Back Thursday

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    Herb

    I am going to start another new weekly feature. Along with Curmudgeonly Monday, I am going to have “Throw It Back Thursday.” Sure, everybody else does “Throwback Thursday,” but I have some ideas for posts that stink so bad that they smell like a fish that needs to be thrown…

  • Math Problem

    Math Problem

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    Herb

    I guess I could have taken the time to rewrite this with modern-day prices and everything but this is the way it was told to me and I like it. I told it to a math teacher who became very annoyed because “I said it wrong.” Since I needed her…

  • The Search

    The Search

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    Herb

    One day at the family reunion, some grandparents were reminiscing. Grandfather remarked, “I wonder whatever happened to the old-fashioned girls who fainted when a man kissed them.” Grandmother gave him a withering look, “What I’d like to know,” she said, “is what happened to the old-fashioned men who could make…

  • Profanity Is Not A Sign Of Intelligence

    Profanity Is Not A Sign Of Intelligence

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    Herb

    Curmudgeonly Monday I think I will make this a new, weekly feature where I just rant and rave and carry on about things that make me feel surly, crusty and ill-tempered. Or old, which makes me feel curmudgeonly. Something that my favorite teacher ever, my tenth grade English teacher, Mrs.…

  • Burial Versus Cremation

    Burial Versus Cremation

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    Herb

    This is one of those subjects that may be touchy to some people. I’m sorry if it rubs you the wrong way, but it is a thing I need to say and a thing I need to write about. Obviously (I know that with the extraordinary intelligence of most of…

  • Restarting Streak

    Restarting Streak

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    Herb

    Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Family Members, Followers, Foundlings, and other assorted Phenomenal Ephemeral Floaters, Greetings, Salutations and Hi there. Long time, no see. I picked the First of March somewhat randomly to restart my blogging streak. It just seemed easy to remember. I have to thank you all for…

  • Burial Was Today

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    Herb

    I want to thank everyone for their support, not just with money but with time spent in prayer for our family and for everything that everyone did. We buried Grandma Pike today. She loved people and she loved church with an uncanny tenacity and will be sorely missed. I will…

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