November 11, 2008

CONVERSATIONS

JH: “How many tours did your brother do in Vietnam?”

JT: “Four. He was on his third when he set a world record in the high jump.”

JH: “What world record?”

JT: “He rappelled down from a helicopter to check out a cave,

JT: found a python waiting,

JT: jumped back into the helicopter,

JT: didn’t even use the rope.”

(Thanks Pat, for going above and beyond. You are amazing – and not just for the high jump. With love, Jim)

November 10, 2008

CONVERSATIONS

JH: “Obama is going to the White House today, and I don’t get it.”

JH: “How can he make nice with a man he criticized so strongly?”

JT: “Simple, he is just following the first rule of politics.”

JT: “Never let your actions today be controlled by…

JT: the words you spoke yesterday.”

November 9, 2008

CONVERSATIONS

JH: “The election has been over for five days, Jim, why are you still smiling?”

JT: “I’m thinking of all the bigots and creationists,

JT: all the neos and social reactionaries.”

JT: “They must think that the Reagan revolution of 1980 has turned upside down.”

JH: “What do you mean?”

JT: “They must have awakened on November 5 thinking that…

JT: it was mourning in America.”

November 8, 2008

CONVERSATIONS

JH: “I see where Mayor Villaraigosa is in the news again.”

JH: “He is certainly a political climber.”

JT: “That he is! I can’t decide which Shakespearian quote fits him best:

JT: ‘much ado about nothing’

JT: or…

JT: ‘ambition should be made of sterner stuff.’”

November 7, 2008

CONVERSATIONS

Mormon Leader: “Yes, we spent big in favor of Proposition 8.”

ML: “The truth is not discrimination.”

ML: “If God wanted gay marriage,

ML: He would have allowed them to wear Holy underwear.”

Daily Nobody 11/5/08

CONVERSATIONS

JT: “Last night,

JT: as I saw state after state turning blue,

JT: I was proud to be a Democrat.”

JT: “But when I saw Barack Obama walk on to that Chicago stage,

JT: I was proud to be an American.”

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Daily Nobody - 11/4/08

CONVERSATIONS


JT: “I had an interesting dream last night.”
JH: ‘What about?”

JT: “I was back teaching and they immediately elected me president of the teacher’s union.”
JH: “Why so quickly?”

JT: “Simple. I had a winning slogan.”

JT: “There are no bad teachers….

JT: just bad kids!”


CONVERSATIONS

JH: “No bad teachers, Jim? You don’t really believe that.

JT: “Of course not, but it got me elected.”

JT: “Would I have won with my real slogan?”

JT: “Merit pay….

JT: or on your way!”


CONVERSATIONS

JH: “Anything else in your dream?”
JT: “Not much. The principal fired me. Then I woke up.”

JH: “Why did he fire you?”
JT: “Time management.”

JT: “It was October 20, and I was supposed to be on page 92.”

JT: “But the kids were enjoying page 91 so much….

JT: that I gave it an extra day.”