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Weekly humor columns from the mind of humorist Bill Drury

Archives for the ‘Food’ Category

Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness, But It Doesn’t Keep Away Thieves

By Billy • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Food

You clean your house before you go on vacation, and you do this because you want to return to a clean home. I tidy up my house before I go on vacation too, but I do it for an entirely different reason: burglars, because one of my biggest fears—next to being chased by a [...]



Veterinarian Corner

By Billy • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Food

I have been thinking a lot lately about how animals scratch themselves.  And with that said, I welcome you to “Veterinarian Corner” where today I, who’s not an actual veterinarian in real life, but who plays a very convincing one in my newspaper column, will answer a nagging animal medical question: if a dog has [...]



MENU MADNESS

By Billy • Sep 7th, 2007 • Category: Food

I’m forever in the wrong place at the wrong time behind the wrong people.  Monday morning was not different.  It was around 6:00 o’clock.  And like many of us, I was in my usual hurry.  So being a “Fast Freddie” who forever moving furiously fast, I figured I’d stop off at McDonalds and pick up [...]



Famished On Fancy French Food

By Billy • Aug 3rd, 2007 • Category: Food

It’s hard to figure out exactly what “fancy food” is; given the term has different meanings to different people. A few folks would agree that eating sushi, for example, is eating ” fancy food,” while the vast majority of us, to include dull-witted rock formations, realize that eating sushi is eating RAW FISH, also [...]



Caveman Cooking

By Billy • Jun 29th, 2007 • Category: Food

My family bought me a traditional charcoal grill for Father’s Day.   My wife was a little apprehensive at first, what with me squirting jet fuel on flames.  But I quickly calmed her fears when I only accidentally lit the dog on fire, twice.  Luckily, I had plenty of wine on hand to douse the dog.  [...]



A Succulent Scent

By Billy • Mar 28th, 2007 • Category: Food

As an individual whose ½ genetic makeup arises out of the Mediterranean, specifically an archipelago which is shaped like a boot, it should come as no great surprise to you that I gravitate towards the garlicy goodness of garlic.
Side Note: For those of you who are NOT equipped with a GIANT brain like the one [...]