Oh, they’re quick, these Yankees.
Hope, with the beekeeper husband, won a blue ribbon for honey at the fair.
Hope’s friend told her son, “Hope’s honey won first prize at the fair.”
“Oh,” the son replied, “for what?”
Another response to: “How you doing?” From David Griffin: “I’m up and about and able to take nourishment.”
Heard in Auburn: “How you doing?”
“Just bought a new underground condo.”
“Is that right?”
“Ayuh, and I’m dying to move in.”
Then David Griffin, trustee of cemeteries, quipped: “I took his money!”
Bucky from New Boston, Fourth of July, (don’t you love the details?) when asked how he was doing, said: “I’m above the topsoil.”
And finally, this from Don Dollard: “If I felt any better, I couldn’t stand it.”
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