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Radioactivity of Tobacco Smoke from Cigarettes
No preaching here. Simply the facts about the radioactivity in tobacco smoke told in a way that everyone can understand the real situation...
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Nailed It with a Closeup "Panorama"
How to make closeup images even closer
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Big Words - Powdered Alcohol, Cyclodextrins, and Cholesterol
You just never can tell what they may want to stick inside your body to fix what ails you.
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Panorama Images from Little Photos
How to make great big panoramic (composite) photos from more than one smaller digital photographic image
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Two Photos for Two Videos
This is a followup and an editing of an earlier hub (One Photo for One Video) to which has been added a second video showing a 360-degree view of the interior of a retail showroom filmed in regular ro
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Up the Wazzoo - Again
You just never know how good some bad words can turn out to be.
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"Please Bug Me" Said the Lizard
When you "bug" a gecko, the lizard will probably enjoy the encounter.
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Waste Not with Pee Power
When you "gotta " see - you "gotta" see and that may be a good time to "pee," too.
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The Neighbor Who Came For Breakfast
You, don't like it. I don't like it. Nobody likes it. What is "It?" Being awakened from a beautiful sleep at 4:30 in the morning by a noisy neighbor.
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Our Good Friend, DRBJ
It is tough to lose a good buddy. This small writing tells how I handled the news that another one of my friends had beaten me to the promised land before I got ready to head that way myself.
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Seraphic-Insights PLAGIARISM Update - The Two-day Angel
SeraphicInsights.com has a plagiarizing "CEO" whose dishonesty toward writers is here described. If you are a writer-member of Tony's website keep track of whose name Tony sticks atop your articles.
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Revisiting The Great Swiss Chard Expose'
Question: Who would want to read a cookbook? Answer: Probably no one unless the cookbook had lots of stories on its pages - plus some doggone good recipes, too.
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Peas in Our Time
History has a way of repeating. Peas can also repeat, but often there are shortages. At such times of scarcity of peas, people are the losers.
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Who Turned the Devil Loose?
Pretty photos make for interesting art
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Picture Piddling
It may require an hour of time to make your selection of an image or two to go along with your writing, but you need only a moment or two to make the image into the exact image you really want to use.
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Smartsy-Artsy
Can't draw a straight line? Let the geniuses of the computer art world take your hand and guide you in creating real art.
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God's Google
Religion can be a touchy subject on which to write, but it is always worth a shot. There are many stories about the origins of religions but not enough space anywhere in which to cover all of them.
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Archimedes' Rear End Worked Nicely
Sometimes a person just wants to be occupied, but it is also very nice to be paid at the same time.
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Messing Around with GimPhoto
You have probably never seen photos of pretty flowers just like those shown in this short video - but now you can make your own image transformations both quickly and easily.
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The Too-Talkative Garden Snake and the Flying Worm
Do snakes talk and can worms fly? Not a bad question, that one.
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Nuts and Bolts
Nothing much could be simpler than the combination of a nut and a bolt - well, maybe a screw and a nail - or a potato and a pickle. Here's a video that tells quite another story about nuts and bolts.
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Twins
April First is a day on which to have some April Fools Day fun.
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Computers All Working at Goodwill
Goodwill Industries helps itself, its clients, and the rest of us by restoring, refurbishing, and reselling donated computer and electronic equipment.
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Write Softly and Carry a Small Canon
Teddy Roosevelt once wrote that he talked softly but carried a big stick. Here we see why GusTheRedneck writes softly and carries a small Canon. (New next day - my team lost badly. Where's my Canon?)
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Tobacco Radioactivity
I wish that ciggies cost 5 bucks a pack when I got hooked on smoking. Had that been so, you would have been spared this article. The kids who made this billboard are smarter than I was- richer, too.
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Monster Pix – Wussy Cost
Make your own large photo posters using your home or office computer, printer, and easy-to-use "open source" software.
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Hot word about perspective in ICE
Yes. Seeing may sometimes be believing, but what you see with your eyes can be very different from the things your camera sees with its big, glass eye.
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It may be work - it may be play – but whatever it is, to see it is to believe it
Most people produce photographs for their own enjoyment or for that of people around them. Sometimes, they may decide to commercialize their photos. Photo play can lead to photo work.
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How to make posters and panoramas with “MS ICE” and “PosteRazor” software
Here are two very easy-to-use computer programs with which you can easily make panoramas, posters, and presentations using ordinary digital images and your current computer.
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How to make panorama photos of vertical scenes
Software and methods for making panorama photographs of vertically-oriented scenes and subjects. How to accomplish this using low-cost and no-cost computer programs
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Keep cool with cost-free solar power
Why pay to fill your living quarters with cooler air when you can do it with solar power and for free. Here's an easy-to-make solar-powered cooler you can easily make using the simplest of tools.
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Never let empty baking pans go to waste
There is the old saying, "If you've got it, flaunt it." That expression might not seem to fit into the world of cooking and baking, but it really does. Check this out and decide for yourself.
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Starving Saturday
Saturdays are meant to be enjoyed in many different ways. Sometimes, if you work it out just right, you can come up with more ways to live your Saturdays than might seem possible.
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Leonardo Hubber is now doing people
You can use FotoSketcher software to make simulated paintings and sketches from original photographs of babies and adults. The graphic renditions are pleasant, but the subjects don't look any better.
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Become the modern Leonardo DaVinci, through your keyboard
Some people who were never meant to be graphic artists can now draw and paint their own article-accompanying images using their computer keyboards and some great and easy-to-use software.
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Walk my doggerel with me
Visit “Walking my doggerel” with me, an E-book that will hold many of the short poems from my pages on HubPages.com. Explore cover art and some page construction.
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Funny faces (and feet, and more, etc.)
It is easy to manipulate photographs for humorous effects or emphasize various parts of the image that you want to point out to the viewers. Some of the computer programs enabling this are low cost.
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Adventures in testing of PagePlus
A person will play with a new toy before getting serious about learning how to use it for serious purposes - like publishing books, for example.
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CAT (a smelly memorial poem)
The cat that visited our front porch making the security light flicker, has departed for Cat Heaven where boy cats get lots of practice and the girl cats can yowl day and night. Revised, republished
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It's alimentary
The military mess hall is a kingdom unto itself - a place where the food may be suspect, but the mess sergeant is always the king.
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Is-a time for leav-a (War stories ain't all alike)
This is a story about a little-remembered war in far-away East Africa back before the start of World War II. This war brought much pain and destruction, but it also brought me my best friend.
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Thesaurismosis
Thesaurismosis is a big word about words - see 'em - store 'em. Stuff the brain full of 'em - some good, some stinkers. Wonder what a thesaurus is all about? Ask any friendly Greek. They know.
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The tree apart
It is said that trees have feelings, too. Well, I'm not so sure about such a thing, but a tree apart can stand in for people like you and me.
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Cactus Man
Cactus Man - a poem about the meaning of love and of life. Inspired by the giant sajuaro I met near Tucson, Arizona in the Sajuaro National Park.
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Hammerin' Hank of the 302nd Tac Recon Squadron
What goes up usually comes down. What should stay up can also come down. Hank Hagedorn knew that aircraft obeyed the first of those two rules. He almost arranged for the second of the rules to work.
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She sells
A wacky little poem that shows you what sitting too long out in the hot sun will do to you.
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Forget about raisins for a Gingerbread Boy
A humorous little poem that talks to folks who believe that all kitchen recipes must be followed "by the book."
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Watching grandkids is like watching time
A short poem about how one of the elderly might think back upon the time of growing up
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Photographers and the law – What can you do when they tell you “No cameras!!!”
You can't take pictures here. Hand over your camera. Erase the picture card. Do what I tell you or it's off to jail you'll go. No - you cannot leave because I am going to call the police unless you do what i tell you to do. Just because you haven't heard things like that yet, if you carry a...
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Chased by a mall rent-a-cop and his tax-paid bodyguard
A rule of thumb as to what is OK to photograph and what is not is, that if you can see the subject while standing on public ground, it is all right to photograph it. Many times retail stores, office buildings, and shopping malls restrict photography on their properties, but most photographers...
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How to print clean copies of your hubs
How to make an advertising-free printout of a HubPages article - no ads - images properly placed. Keepers for your own computer files exactly like your HubPages, plus PDF versions easily made at the same time.
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How to work some shopping magic with pano pix
It only takes a couple of minutes to make the photos you need for constructing a cylindrical panorama picture of the interior of a large room, a complete retail store, the inside of a church, or any other interior that you would like to view as though you were standing in one spot and turning to...
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The dog who froze his tail off
Sooner or later everyone is going to lose their tail. It is unusual for a happy dog to lose its tail, but it can happen to the best of them. This is a funny tale about a dog's tail that worked well even after it had been frozen off.
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My "Obamaphone" Complaints
Why is it that nobody likes a smartass? Maybe we should pick up our "Obamaphones" and dial up the authorities to ask. What do you think the answer will be? Maybe, if the answer you get does not please, you might have dialed the wrong number. Gotta be careful about tapping on those tiny little...
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Mayonnaise Clinic's strange case of the upside-down patient
What can the docs do when everything inside and outside their patient is backwards and is up instead of down? A novel cure is decided on and it works just fine. If you enjoy nonsense poems, this one is very nonsensical.
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Hardly marijuana – a half vast horticultural project
Fake marijuana was to be developed in a secret project funded by the government but that was hampered by competition from the Mexican drug cartel. Visit this amazing project as it worked its way to a smoking hot success in Hardly, Texas only to be stymied by the Mexican drug cartels and the U.S....
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"Dusty's Poem"
Another tribute to our late HubPages buddy, 50-Caliber (Dusty Tibbs). He said that a poem about him could never be written. Perhaps he was correct, but this one was written for him a long time ago. He enjoyed reading it.
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Playing “Post Office” in broad daylight on a Sunday morning
There was a time when every kid over the age of 14 or so knew the few rules governing how “Post Office” was played. It was never played alone; that is, it was a party game. It was a game played in dim light, if not in the dark – and certainly not out in the sunshine. No one, as nearly as I can...
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New Braunfels – Gus The Redneck - lawbreaker
Some folks, particularly those in charge of things, simply do not understand that Rednecks carry stuff around with them that "ordinaries" do not. When you have to do some business in the courthouse, you are better off if you leave your cameras and weapons in the car. However, if such precautions...
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An eMail from 50 Caliber
This is one of the eMails sent to fellow Hubbers by "50 Caliber" - Dusty Tibbs. He has left us here to miss him, and indeed we do.
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My Word ! - An old and very worn-out love
Habits are tough things to get rid of. This is true for the words people use. There are some good ways, some bad ways, some difficult ways, and some easy ways to change to the use of newer and more fun expressions.
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Rednecks Day - Redneck Tale # 69
Sometimes it is possible to get plenty of readership (page views) for your articles from relatively small audiences. It really depends on how you appeal to the people whose attention you want to gain. Often enough, it is the headline that does the job for you.
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Old body - new pipes - Abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA)
Aneurisms of the aorta, the body's largest blood vessel, are bulges (balloonings) that are relatively free of warning symptoms. If the aneurism size is great, immediate surgical repair is needed. This article chronicles discovery of a large aneurysm, its surgical repair using newer endovascular...
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Tarkington man gored by a bull - Redneck Tale # 65
The publishing business would certainly be strange enough without all of the oddball people who tend to gravitate into its midst. It can even zanier when the families of the publishers become involved in things, particularly those who seem to be even stranger than is the publishing racket itself.
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Danger - A Botanical Jurassic Park
How about a 15-foot-tall bright-green-leafed plant with really hairy purple-colored four-inch thick stems, the leaves of which are three or more feet across, and with huge clusters of pristine white flowers heavy enough to wear out the arms of anyone foolish enough to try carrying them? More than...
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Fuzzy on top and smooth in the middle - Redneck Recipe # 31
Peanut butter and chocolate chips combine with flaked coconut topping to make this microwave-baked cake something quite special. The baking time is short - only 3 or 4 minutes.
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Old Ford Bumpers and Shrimp - War Stories Ain’t All Alike – # 9
In the military, when the non-com tells you to do something, to say something, or to think something, most smart GIs do so. Learning the ins and outs of nuclear medical technology under the tutelage of Seaman first Class Bill Aliman was proof of the wisdom of listening while you learned. One of the...
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A well-planned rubout - (grime and PUN-ishment)
You do not want this gang to help you rob a bank. They did not even know the difference between bank robbery and bad English.
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The last of the limericks in Limerick – and Redneck Recipe # 22 – Redneck Smoked Catfish
This article is a combination of a story and a food recipe that follows the story. The tale is all about Limerick, Maine, and its oncece harboring of a goofy guy who liked to produce limericks. The recipe tells how to cook some tasty smoked catfish.
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 198 through # 207
Here I sit at this cold and relentless keyboard, all sorts of letters and strange symbols scattered all over the thing, nice hot cup of coffee off to one side. Even while the keyboard glares at me, that coffee is smiling away at me. Guess which of...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 187 through # 197
Eleven more little poem things for the pot. Makes me wonder how the big stew of them may taste once the tally reaches the "magic number" as it comes up with the second group of 101 to play sequel to the first 101 in that first eBook. Without...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 177 through # 186
Jamie (jhamann), a very observant and likeable hubber, asked for "more dumb poems." Because I ran out of time to write more of them today, I will share some (these) that are all ready to go...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 166 through # 176
My goodness. Here we go with another eleven of those little poems. It won’t be long before there will be enough of them (101 by some sort of counting method) to fill another of the "101Dumb Funny Poem" eBooks. I surely do hope so, for my fingers...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 145 through # 165
If my fingers hold out and if the electric power company cooperates, here will appear (both by magic and by our good HubPages people) 21 more "Dumb Poems." These are destined to become a part of the next free eBook put together and sent to...
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Dumb Poem Collection - #134 through # 144
Misbehavioral Ecology Thievery is part of my nature – and that, as the whole thing would go, is very natural. I have been learning a bit about the simple-enough subject of "behavioral ecology," said to be a study of critters and their...
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Dumb poem collection - #120 through #133
I worked a little bit on these, hopefully enough to keep folks happy and looking for some more. . #120 - Modulated infrequency Scott is hot for radio. He listens while his work will go forgotten. It’s rotten. Some day he’ll switch off –...
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Dumb poem collection #109 through #119
It is tough to quit writing these things. Come to think of it, it may be just as tough to read 'em. # 109 - Pro-Found Ars est celare artem; that’s how my verse is, postpartum. It takes one like you or one like me to get the message – really...
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The Moonshine Navy - War Stories Ain’t All Alike # 8
A tale of how the resourceful Seabees not only built the Navy base on Rota Bora Island during World War II, but managed to provide themselves and the surviving native population with an huge and endless supply of drinkable alcohol
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Dumb Poems are where you find them
I was cleaning out my messy bookshelf this evening. I found an old notebook with some scribbling on some of its pages. There were three "old" dumb poems in there that I had forgotten about. You might enjoy them, and, then again, you might not. You...
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C. diff – The killer "superbug" that hates soap, hates bleach, and hates buttermilk
C.diff (Clostridium difficile) is one of the really bad "superbugs." Once it get to working on your insides it can cause you untold misery and even kill you deader than a doornail. C. diff is long-lived in the environment and is also very hard to get rid of once it infects the body.
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 85 through # 94
Busy, busy, busy, busy... it’s enough to make a Redneck’s red neck turn pale from overworking his other parts. What is going on is that I am mostly finished with turning this whole Dumb Poem thing into a nice eBook. That has been a learning...
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Everything he touched turned - War Stories Ain’t All Alike - # 7
We have all experienced being around losers. This is the story of a REAL loser as told to me by one of his co-workers at Sandia Base in New Mexico. The guy simply could do nothing right - not even commit suicide.
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Cracker boxes on duty - War Stories Ain't All Alike - # 6
Today those military ambulances are fancier, better-equipped, and a whole lot easier to drive than back in the 1950s. Also, it is doubtful that the GIs have to chase aircraft back and forth on the airfield runways with their ambulance like we did at Brooks AFB in Texas. This is the story about how...
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Flagpoles are for monkeys -War Stories Ain't All Alike – # 5
Flagpoles seem to attract more than must flags. The flagpoles installed at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesday, Maryland, attracted size-40 lady's bloomers and lots of strange footprints of people who most have disappeared into the poles.
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The artistic Irish sailor - War Stories Ain’t All Alike - # 4
Here are some humorous and true tales from the 1960s at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. As is always so, there was a constant tug of war between the enlisted troops and their office bosses. The "grunts" usually won the game.
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Hi Mom, look at my new jet - War Stories Ain’t All Alike - # 3
Military basic training days can be a real struggle for some and a piece of cake for others. Often the way to get through basic training without a scratch is to do what you are told to do, do not volunteer for anything, eat everything placed on your tray in the mess hall, and don't brag about your...
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Hannibal’s Half Vast Army - All war stories ain't alike # 10
The centuries have moved right along since those days, a few changes taking place as old pages fell from the calendar. The problem is, however, that the military, the generals, the legislators, and the home folks have seemed not to have learned the lessons from all of that history. There is still...
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Jerry’s rusty rifle - War Stories Ain’t All Alike - # 2
Jerry Lyons was unaware that his immaculately clean training rifle had become the most famous "secret weapon" ever developed for the United States Army. In fact he was punished because his company officer mistakenly found its barrel to have a rust spot in it.
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 73 through # 84
The Dumb Poem Collection is coming together quite nicely. If my count is correct, after this I have but another 10 dumb poems to go to complete collecting all of those that are already written. The illustrations were sketches drawn by my friend, Al Kaeppel. Al would look at a dumb poem and come up...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 61 through # 72
There is some sort of story behind each of the dumb poems in this collection. The ones on this page are not exceptions. So, below each of them I will provide the tale, at least as best as I can remember it. The illustrations were all produced by...
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Popp chard and pesky pests - Swiss Chard
Edgar Popp was famous for his pleasant ways and great Swiss chard recipes. Edgar also proposed some interesting ways for growing Swiss chard, keeping dogs and other pest animals under control, and keeping your sanity during those activities.
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 49 through # 60
It is getting toward the time to be thinking ahead about possible titles for the eBook to hold the many dumb poems and the images that will go with them. I am partial to the book title that my kids recommended. It was sort of a takeoff from the one...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 37 through # 48
Looking at the roster of "Dumb Poems" on the storage disk, it is apparent that I am close to halfway through with consolidating the lot of them. The goal is to assemble them all into one coherent and presentable set of eBook pages. Yesterday...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 25 through # 36
Continuing with the consolidation of my many dumb poems, here is the third collection of twelve dumb poems in the series. As you might imagine, each of the little poems has some sort of reason for its having been written. It is more than...
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 13 through # 24
Numbers 13 through 24 in the first collection of funny little poems - Don't be nosy, Birthdays, The jet age, Paradise lost, The librarian, Elery Johnson, Amphibious advice, A pair in the apple tree, the power of babble, King of the Worms-1, A specious species, and Hail to the chaff.
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Dumb Poem Collection - # 1 through # 12
Short, but funny, nonsense poems - that actually seem to make some sense.
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Jumping clams - All you ever wanted to know - Redneck Tale # 53
Impossible you say? "Clams can’t jump. They have no legs."Well, I am here to tell you that clams can and do jump. They have been known to dig way down under the sand to hide from those pesky clam diggers and other enemy critters, and then, all of a sudden, they may pop up from below again, jumping...
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President Lyndon B. Johnson and Sergeant Treadmill - Redneck Tale # 49
President Lyndon B. Johnson was for real. So was Dr. Larry Lamb. For certain, "Sergeant Treadmill" was also his own man. But when the three of them came together one day, everyone in the area had to stand up and take notice.
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How to write a sex story - Redneck Tale # 43
I know. Everyone thinks that being a writer is a piece of cake – a regular walk in the park. Not true. Writing good stuff is not easy at all. An author worth the ink to be wasted and the paper scheduled for squandering has to begin by coming...
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Smoke gets in your eyes and in your food, too - Health and Disease
Grilled and barbecued foods are nourishing and taste great, but you have to be aware that the smoke and heat can add toxins to the food unless you understand how to prevent their formation,
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Square Hailstones - Redneck Tale # 36
Mother Nature knows best! Sometimes it snows in July, and Mother Nature has been known to perform wonders for any of us who care to take a look once in a while. Today, for example, the weather turned. Hail was coming down from the few clouds that...
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Redneck Tale # 34 – Carlos, Salvador and their secret menudo recipe
Next door neighbors are OK, but nobody needs too many neighbors like Carlos and Salvador. They were fun to watch, at least from time to time.
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Do monkeys write better than do Rednecks? - Redneck Tale # 29
HubPages.com is "the place" to read original articles. HubPages.com is also "the place" for writers to write and to earn money from their writing. There are many articles on Hubpages written by authors who speak to earning money from writing hubs. As everyone who participates in the Hubpages...
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How to make photo cartoons for the non-artist writer
Sometimes a writer can also draw – maybe not create nice art, but perhaps some cartoons. Most often, other writers are like me – they cannot draw a straight line without tracing along the edge of a ruler. What can we do? One thing we...
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The Old Pilot and the Lesbian - Redneck Tale # 17
A funny Redneck tale about a veteran aircraft pilot who learned that he was a lesbian instead. You never know who it may be that you meet in a coffee shop.
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Clearing the Air with Thorium - Health and Disease
By now you have learned from another of my articles here on HubPages - http://gustheredneck.hubpages.com/hub/Health-and-Disease-Radioactivity-in-Coal - about the massive contamination of the air from the burning of coal to generate electricity. One...
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys - Redneck Tale # 15
It is a good thing that parents rarely find oput what their kids are really up to when out of sight and hearing. Teachers have the same problem. Teach a kid something - and look out! Things happen that you might never imagine.
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Radioactivity in Coal
Where would you prefer to reside – close by a nuclear power plant or next door to a coal-fired power plant? Before you answer that question, consider this: You can wander all over the world looking for a "clean" coal-fired power plant, but you are most unlikely to find one.Here is a quotation from...
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Redneck Tale # 13 - Wilbur's Fanne
Congressman Wilbur Daigh Mills, then chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee was reputed to be the most powerful Congressman, both for his appointed position in Congress and for his superior knowledge of the complicated U.S. Tax Code. Wilbur lost his position and his place...
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Redneck Tale # 12 - The Wacka-Wacka Snake
A whacky Redneck Tale about the wacka-wacka snake, the deadliest killer in the jungle. The locale was the Burma-India region in Asia during World War II. The story is passed on from entrepreneur, Larry Hagerty.
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The Queen of Egypt - Redneck Tale # 10
When the Queen of Egypt has something to say, it may be wise to listen.
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A Non-Poem
The City At last there came the city, nearing - distance abating. It was not of the usual brick and mortar, but a garble of mud huts, waste dumps, and unpretentious shacks, all in place, yet out of place, like dark dreams in bright sunlight. There...
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Tobacco Smoking - Keep it Up if You Want Your Share of Pulmonary Edema
Humans usually are born with two lungs. Humans who want to keep breathing with those two lungs either never begin smoking tobacco - or quit smoking as soon as they can in favor of breathing.
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This is for the Birds - Redneck Tale # 6
Never overlook reading about the exploits of the inventive Irish. What they may not know may try to hurt them, but hard heads are rarely even dented, no matter how great is the blow.
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Redneck Tale # 5 (Continued) – More Crazies (Will They Ever Stop Coming ?)
There truly must be such a thing as a "crazies magnet," and I think that I have one built into my body – probably somewhere up top in the middle of what the shrinks call gray matter. Observations show that crazies magnets act like the black holes...
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Redneck Tale # 16 - The Swamp Girl
She was tall, rangy, big-boned, red-headed, and from the farm in Nebraska. Odell was her name, but we all called her plain, old "Del." Del was a three-stripe WAF; that is, she was one of the Women in the Air Force. Del had the right way of looking...
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Missionaries and the Law
Why people might titter at English law.
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What’s With All These Crazies??? - Redneck Tale # 5
Trials and tribulations of an enlisted man in the Air Force. All of those crazy people he met up with while in service seem to have followed him everywhere, both then and even now.
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Redneck Recipe # 11 - "The Country Doctor and Jack Daniel" and Chicken Thighs and Spicy Potatoes Recipe
From Gus’s Redneck’s Kitchen (Specializing in Bait, Tackle and Haute Cuisine) For folks who like funny country stories and great country food all on the same plate Downstate in a little town on the crossing of the north-south Highway 77...
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Gus versus The Glove plus Redneck Recipe # 7 - Barbecued Beef Brisket
There's nothing quite like being young and brave (foolhardy?). Anyone who served enlisted in the military will tell you that the platoon sergeant was "king" and lived to be hated. The lesson most frequently learned was that kings usually win and that revenge may be sweet, but it is typically...
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Redneck Recipe # 6 - "The German Redneck" and Old Country Red Cabbage Recipe
Another funny Redneck story plus a tasty recipe for preparing red cabbage the "country way." This is a tale about a Redneck of German ancestry who moved away from his girlfriend and who needed help writing a love letter to her and reading her reply.
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Redneck Recipe # 5 - "Esther's First Gingerbread" and Esther's Oatmeal Bars Recipe
Redneck Recipe # 5 – Esther’s Oatmeal Bars From Gus’s Redneck’s Kitchen (Specializing in Bait, Tackle and Haute Cuisine) For folks who like funny country stories and great country food all on the same plate Esther’s...
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Earl's Chicken Talk and Barbecue Sauce (Redneck Recipe # 4)
Earl was a real redneck. On top of that Earl was a chicken farmer. Earl was smart enough to know that it was best to grow stuff that mostly grew itself. Chickens do that. Chickens suited Earl nicely.
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Redneck Recipe # 3 - "Esther's Lost Chord" and Gusberry Pie Recipe
From Gus’s Redneck’s Kitchen (Specializing in Bait, Tackle and Haute Cuisine) For folks who like funny country stories and great country food all on the same plate Esther’s Lost Chord Around here we talk a lot about our...
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Redneck Recipe # 2 - "Weather or Not" and The Five Buck Ham Recipe
You can always count on rain when the trail riders get to Houston.
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Morgellons Disease - New, Strange, and Scary - Health and Disease
Morgellons Disease has fairly recently become a medical journal and newspaper feature. Recently cropping up in South Texas, it is a strange collection of symptoms about which the medical community is greatly divided as to its status, its causes, and its treatments.
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Redneck Story # 5 - Weird Stories From Strange and Unknown Sources
These tales are transcribed from notes I made some time back. Most of them were found on the Internet. Almost all of them were written by authors with strange minds. They tickled me pretty well, and so I felt that sharing them with you might bring...
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Redneck Tale # 2 - Wag Lag
Curtis tells a funny story. If you go for dumb dogs, this is the one for you to read.
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Dumb Poem # 71 - People to People
While I am still remembering about things political, presidents, and the like, across my flexible mind slid a memory or two about President Jimmy Carter's peanut farm, his goofy brother, and his lovely mother, Lillian Carter, the one who had lots of...
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The Nazi Party - Dumb Poem # 62
This is a funny little poem about some Nazis who are so dumb that they swing on my window curtains after drinking all of my food and wine - quite some ding-dong party guys, right? Goofy illustration by artist, Al Kaeppel
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How to Tell if Someone is Bugging You
Methods and devices used to eavesdrop on people and companies are detailed in this article. How to tell if you are being bugged (eavesdropped upon) and ways to discover the bugging that may be going on. Ways to overcome the eavesdropping (bugging) are provided as well as sources of more information...
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Dumb Poem # 37 - Skiing
A funny little poem about the joys and the hazards of learning how to ski from a textbook. Nicely illustrated by Al Kaeppel
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Dumb Poem # 30 - King Tut's Cockroaches
A funny little poem about one of mankind's least favorite critters - the cockroach. Nicely illustrated by Al Kaeppel.
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Tobacco's Radioactivity - Nicotine Hooks You - Radioactivity Kills You (updated on 30Dec14)
It is NOT the nicotine in tobacco smoke that ruins your body. Tobacco's radioactivity is the big culprit. This posting is revised on this next to the last day of the year for the benefit of all who care to read it. I hope it inspires readers to search the literature for more information - for the...
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Dumb Poem # 2 - The Problem With Rabbits
These hub page things are good exercise for the mind and the fingers. The stuff I put together here may not be all that much fun for you, however. At the risk of turning you off, nice people, I should alert you to the real situation here. This is...