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Hometown Humor Hometown humor helps pull us through. If you listen on the streetcorners, in the cafes, at the kitchen tables of America, you'll hear people telling funny stories and jokes. In this book, Loyal Jones
| Title | : | Hometown Humor |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (689 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0874835321 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2006-01-26 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
In the midst of all that may bother uscrime, drugs, poisons in the water, poor healthpeople still take time to make each other laugh. If you listen on the streetcorners, in the cafes, at the kitchen tables of America, you'll hear people telling funny stories and jokes. Hometown humor helps pull us through. In this book, Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler have gathered the best of America's hometown humor. The selections range from one-liners (“My wife's cooking was so bad, the flies got together to mend the screens”) to epigrams (“To do good is noble, but to tell others to do good is also noble and a lot less trouble”), to longer stories (like the one about why the Devil tried to give Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart back to St. Peter after they were assigned to his place). Contributors include regular folks, as well as celebrities like Sarah Ophelia Cannon (a.k.a. Minnie Pearl), Tom T. Hall, John Ed McConnell, the late Sen. Sam J. Ervin, and the nine
Loyal Jones is the author of nine books and dozens of articles on Appalachian culture, including Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor. For twenty-three years he was director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College.
Wheeler is a songwriter, singer, playwright and poet. He is co-founder of the Festival of Appalachian Humor.
Wheeler is a songwriter, singer, playwright and poet. He is co-founder of the Festival of Appalachian Humor.
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Reviewed by Tim Janson. Still, it's a good read for boys and girls.. They cannot affect the effulgent light of Divine Reality whose Sun in the splendor of its shining sweeps aside by its dazzling power every lesser image and renders unto man the immaculate divine concept at all levels, at every hour.
"Let the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing if they will! It has no power to shake the heavens, for only the power of God and the power of the Holy Spirit can blaze forth and extend itself in all of its immortal shining into the eye and heart of man. Almost 50% of the pages have coloar photographs of primarily Eastern art. It also talks a lot about people's spiritual journeys which are inspiring to read, and to see how they came to their `end' (Although no one really finishes I think!) of their journey.
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