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Weekly humor columns from the mind of humorist Bill Drury

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IS THAT A CUP OF COFFEE OR THE SWITCH FOR THE WINDOW WIPER?

By Billy • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Life

The piss, moan, and complaint of the day (I mean “of the morning,” the day is young):
It frosts my weenie when I go to get a “simple” cup of “simple” coffee from one of those “simple” coffee franchise places, like, for example, oh I don’t know, say, the one who’s name rhymes simply with “Ptarbucks.”  [...]



Judge, Drury, and Executioner

By Billy • Mar 3rd, 2009 • Category: Life

There are two very different ways of penalizing boys and penalizing girls.  I know this because my wife and I own one of each.  Both my son, Doug, and daughter, Sara, are intelligent, funny, sarcastic, and basically BIG pains in the butt.  Not sure where they get this behavior from.  But don’t ask my wife.  [...]



Going About Your Business

By Billy • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Life

I don’t know about your dogs but our dogs spend huge gobs of time lying under the living room coffee table engrossed in noisy personal K-9 hygiene.  And when they are not busy with this, they are busy making huge Cecil B. Demille-like productions over going to the bathroom.
Take for example our Cocker Spaniel and [...]



AN APPLE A DAY…OR A BIG BAG OF M&Ms

By Billy • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Life

There are some people out there who will NOT go to the doctors under any circumstances, to include if a mongoose is firmly attached to their jugular vein.  These are the kinds of people who, when cutting down a tree in the backyard, will slice off a good solid hunk of their body, say from [...]



I’ve Had My Fill Of Phil

By Billy • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Life

I admit I can be a little cynical at times, and even believe it or not, a smidgen sarcastic.  BUT I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a certain vitally important topic—rats that make predictions.  But I’m a little fuzzy on this mousy matter, so perhaps you can help me out:
The scientific community has spent [...]



Aging Gracefully

By Billy • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Health

Back when I was a kid I could have cut one of my legs off above the knee on a rusty slide and within thirty seconds my body would have completely healed itself.  And in no time at all I’d be back running and jumping as if nothing had ever happened.
But now in the middle [...]



DIAGNOSIS UNKNOWN, BUT IT’S DEFINITELY BAD

By Billy • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Health

The world is full of crazy people; some think they are reincarnated famous people like Napoleon, George Washington, Jesus Christ, or Barney Fife.  While others are convinced they are communicating with alien life forms.  And get this; there are actually people walking around out there, unsupervised, who think they’re able to talk with the, ready [...]



Loads Of Laundry

By Billy • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Life

I don’t know what it is about the power of boobs, but a good sturdy pair of breasts can make an otherwise sane man do absolutely anything, even the laundry.  And I am certain that women came up with the idea for BOTH boobs and laundry.  I say this because even as far back as [...]



The Glaring Truth

By Billy • Dec 17th, 2008 • Category: Life

Okay, if you are afraid of dark; if you are afraid of the living dead; if you are afraid of things that go “Bump” in the night, and if you are afraid of YOUR Mother “AaaaaaaaaaahhhHHHaaaah!” then brace yourself, AND proceed at YOUR OWN risk…
My mother can easily glare Dracula under the coffin with one eyeball tied behind [...]



BLIND DATE

By Billy • Dec 6th, 2008 • Category: Life

It was junior year in high school.  I should have known that something was up when my “friend” informed me that he had done me a great service by setting me up with a blind date.
Now in high school guys will stoop to absolutely anything in order to get a date with a girl, a [...]