Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Old Uncle Crow
“Ride yer bike, save the God-damned environment” — they SAY!
As to “bicycle-safety,” well, har-de-God-damned-har-har, as they say….
The There’s-A-Skeeter-On-My-Peter-Sweet-Marie Hell of it is is that if you DO wear a helmet, then (more…)
Filed under: To The Editor(s)
by Old Uncle Crow
["DR Nature Boy" does a regular Q & A outdoors-thingy in the pages of the Squawbunion County Pile Driver & Terre de Bleu City Daily Blast — so, here is a letter I tried to help Grandpa, the argumentative old (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by Old Uncle Crow
IN The previous article I notice that my 87-year-old farm-neighbor, Judson Andersen, uses the following (more…)
Filed under: The Way We Were--Hell, ARE!--in Old Blue Earth County
by Old Uncle Crow
[I Got the following screed of idealistic hokum in my computer the other day -- some sort of hopelessly idealistic naive BS. Anyway, my mistake was I (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
[5 May 2007
[TO: Minnesota Senator Norman Coleman]
THANK You! Senator, for the favour of your reports via my computer; they are informative, and I do enjoy reading them. As you will see on reading further, I do have an apparently-minor point (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by Old Uncle Crow
PUNS Are normally so God-awful (and dirty!) that it is a pleasure to introduce these really funny & clever exceptions from UK blogger Anticant!
http://anticant.blogspot.com/2007/04/bens-conundrums.html
copyrighted by tio cuervo May 4th, 2007
Filed under: The English & American Languages
ELEMENTARY Phrases, Vocabulary of the Dareezha ‘Arabiya al-Maghreb al-’Aqsa
by ‘Abd al-Mostaqabel (aka “Old Uncle Crow”)
THE Following was composed as a guide to the spoken dialect-Arabic of Morocco. It was done in early 2005 for some in-laws from old Mankato, MN. Hence, the problem of the practically always-much-too-difficult “official phonetic alphabet-systems” was solved, very neatly! All I needed to do was to transcribe the sounds of Moroccan Arabic into the written sounds of the Lakese dialect of northeastern Blue (more…)
Filed under: The English & American Languages
by Old Uncle Crow
I Wish now to introduce to these pages the formal concept of “Federal American.” The term Federal American in these pp formally now will be used to (more…)
