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Last week you were exposed to the top 10 all-time best Western TV show according to Cowboy and Indian The Post. Some of you have voiced your praise, mostly change-it but maybe some of your favorites will be on this list of No. 11-20.

Staff Writer Al Wilburn found his little ditty on a website called Cowboys and Indians The Post and I found it intriguing to say the least. Of course my early days of TV watching were limited to Channel 4, Channel 9 and Channel 10 (out of Ada) so I am no expert. But is anybody?

By John Bill Martin Johnbillmartin44@gmail. com Staff Writer How’s this for some offbeat humor?· First cannibal: “You don’t look well, my friend. What’s wrong?”Second cannibal: “Oh, not much. I guess I’m just fed up with people.”· Years ago, they didn’t put up signs reading “Men Working.”

Staff Writer When you stand in front of a classroom of children for 57 years as I so enjoyably did, you encounter all sorts of questions, mostly about your personal life and sometimes about whatever topic we might have been discussing in class.Many of the questions were very provocative, others...

Staff Writer One of the first things I learned in Bible School as a youngster in rural Hughes County was that a parable is an earthly story with a Heavenly meaning. And some 70-80 years later, I know of no time in our Nation’s proud history when all of us could use more Heavenly meanings.

By John Bill MartinJohnbillmartin44@gmail.comStaff WriterI have never been blonde.

When you die, there are at least 10 things God WON’T ask you:1. God won’t ask you what kind of car you drove. He’ll ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation.2. God won’t ask the square footage of your house. He’ll ask how many people did you welcome into your home.3.

By John Bill Martin Staff WriterThis is a special tribute to those people who were born between 1930 and 1946 or those of you who might know or have known someone from this era:People born during this special time in our country (includes me, of course) are between 76 and 92 years old.

I think maybe people have been cooped up too long with all the COVID stuff going around.

I do not propose to be an expert on very many things but finding jobs after retirement would probably be an area in which I have some experience, but not necessarily a great deal of knowledge.In other words, if I had any sense, I would take these jobs and shove them and become a couch potato.Here...