Around Town

My birthday was last week and while it will not be cause for the celebration that Preston Dunlap will have in a couple of weeks when he turns 17, it is still significant, to me, anyway.Some little known, and possibly not very interesting facts: I was born at home (3½ miles west and half mile south...

By John Bill Martin Staff Writer An elderly man in Louisiana owned a large farm for several years.He had a huge pond in the back, and it was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts and some apple and peach trees.One evening the old farmer decided to...

Seems it’s getting hard- er and harder to find hu morous (yet not vulgar) material for people of a certain age to enjoy. Here is a glimpse of some signs or billboards that have been randomly seen across the United States. Enjoy!!!1.

Most of our gener ation of 60+ were H OME SCHOOLED in many ways. We just didn’t know it at the time. Examples:1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE: “If you’re going to kill each other,do it outside. I just fin ished cleaning.”2.

by John Bill MartinA woman, cranky because her husband was late coming home again, decided to leave a note, saying, “I’ve had enough and have left you... don’t bother coming after me!”Then she hid under the bed to see his reaction.

The season for Trick or Treating is upon us and whether you are the giver or the getter, it is sometimes a stressful time for all. But for those of us of a certain age, there is a good time to give up the getting part of it.Top 10 reasons you know you are too old to Trick or Treat when: 10.

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. “One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,” said one boy.

You don't have to be a Bill Gatestype millionaire to have a more valuable commodity: Common sense. How ‘bout these observations?1. Life is not fair.Get used to it. 2. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.3.

If you have ever played football, coached football, had a son (or daughter) that played football or even watch it occasionally on TV, you have no doubt observed the behavior and sometimes the language of the coaches.

This little ditty comes to us courtesy of the lovely and talented Barbara Dull. I’m sorry, but did I hear you correctly when you read these signs to me?TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW. In a Laundromat: AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT.