Quick. Before I forget it again. I need to tell you that Kimball and Lynne Hedrick will be on radio station KWTO (AM 560) from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The audience will get to hear about the best of El Dorado Springs. You can call in and contribute to the show. Producer Dan Vaugh is impressed that Kimball remembers his first radio name, Arlington Swade.
-Davis made it home about 11:30 p.m. Friday. He brought some rare black Mardi Gras beads home to his momma.
-We are still pursuing the information on the top coaches at EHS. I just got some information from MSHSAA that the state football championships didn’t start until 1968, so there apparently was not a statewide playoff system in place before then. We still need someone who has the interest, the expertise and the time to get with Allen Hoover about the 40 years he researched, then put that with the information available in EHS yearbooks. I hope we can determine the winningest teams and coaches since sports started at EHS. Give me a call if you are interested.
-My Birmingham buddy, Allen Crew, sent a new simplified plan for screening terrorists at airports which could not be called profiling: have everyone walk, one at a time, through a device which would explode any bombs.
-A K-9 officer pulled up to some young school kids. One little boy heard the K-9 partner in the van and kept trying to see the animal. Finally he asked the uniformed officer, “Do you have a dog in there?” When the officer said he did, the little boy asked,”“What did he do?”
-Now some puns:
• The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
• No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
• She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
• A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
• I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
• The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
• The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
• Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
• A rubber band was confiscated in Algebra (by Miss Althen?) because it was a weapon of math disruption.
• Two hats were hanging on a hat rack. One said, “You stay here; I’ll go on a head.”
• When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
• If you clean your plate, it will go to waist. If you don’t, it will go to waste.