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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
Dear Hon:
It’s got so every time we pick up a paper down here in Texas
we’ve got to read about some kind of crookedness. It’s all
over the front page. Nearly all the funnies are full of it.
That just leaves the sports page, the financial page and the
classified ads. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
One small Canadian airline is called Pacific West
Air but abbreviated PWA. Local jokers say it stands for Please
Wait Awhile, Piggly Wiggly Airlines, or Pray While Aloft. I
prefer the Piggly Wiggly version because of an Irishman I met
in Kalowna, B.C., who had a gift for collecting Piggly Wiggly
stories. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
In 1977, I started walking two miles a day over at
Mertzon on the weekends and on odd town days. 1977 is an
important marker. See, I quit walking after becoming a
licensed driver in 1940. From 1940 to 1977, my track reached
from the back door to the pickup. Long distance was from the
house to the barn. So the first term was 14 years of school
and prowling the countryside plus the past 25 years of
exercising, giving a sum of 39 years of walking the streets of
a two mile square town. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
I like living someplace where a horse matters.
There is just some country where horseback is the only way to
get the job done. Places where the four-wheeler is a poor
second, not to mention a noisy, track-leaving unnatural
conveyance. Besides, it’s hard to throw a rope from. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
The wheels of bureaucracy turn painfully slow. It is a
good thing the wheel was invented thousands of years ago, or
it might never have got rolling in today's bureaucratic
climate. Can you imagine if you tried to reinvent the wheel
today? |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
It happens for various reasons. Maybe it's Grandpa
passing on at a ripe old age. Or a family squabble. Could be
it just succumbed to a mountain of debt. Whatever the reason,
each year hundreds of ranches come up for sale. And while
nobody likes to think about it, sometimes it's prudent to plan
for such events ... just in case. |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
I have bad news and good news. I just read in one of my
magazines that those of us in the boondocks who don’t have
access to high-speed Internet cables will soon have another
way to obtain a fast connection by putting a new device on our
old-fashioned copper wire telephones. The article says a
company called Artera Group International in Westport, Conn.
is developing a system to be used on existing telephone wires
that will be five times faster than our dial-up modems. |
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D'Ann Ducote
Palabras
DIAMONDS AND DUST… I was walking from the west pens back
toward the house when I first saw them. Surely, they had been
there thousands of years; most certainly the feet of men and
beasts, and all kinds fowl had trod on them. They were not
hidden in any sense; in fact, they were lying there on the
ground in broad daylight ... hundreds of them. |
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