Tag: humor
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Riverboat Sam: “Night Surfing Not a Brilliant Idea”
“We hear all our lives about the ‘gentle, stormless Pacific,’ and about the ‘smooth and delightful route to the Sandwich Islands,’ and about the ‘steady blowing trades’ that never vary, never change, never ‘chop around,’ and all the days of our boyhood we read how that infatuated old ass, Balboa, looked out from the top […]
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Riverboat Sam: “A Yankee in King Scott Walker’s Court”
[Photo by Underwood & Underwood (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons] By Riverboat Sam As the “technical specialist” of this electrical rag, I am not supposed to butt in with my own political pontificating, but my residence in this here Wisconsin has so far been thoroughly provoking. Being quite advanced in age, I know humbug when […]
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