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Weekly humor columns from the mind of humorist Bill Drury

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THE GUY

By Billy • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Life

It just isn’t fair.  I kill myself to have a good lawn.  I fertilize; I mulch; I seed; I sow; I’m busy with the lime all the time.  You name it and I do it, double, in triplicate!  BUT my lawn still looks like it had been descended upon by a tribe of terrorist goats [...]



JOIN US FOR ANOTHER RENDITION OF “ASK MR. MARRIAGE COUNCILOR”

By Billy • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Life

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again for another rendition of “Ask Mr. Marriage Councilor.”  But before we get started I’m sensing that you are asking yourself the following: “Just were does Drury get off giving out marriage information?  Who does he think he is?  And what qualifications does he have to be [...]



Tie Tying Trouble

By Billy • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Life

NEWS FLASH!  Humans do not breathe out of their feet.  So therefore, learning how to tie one’s shoelaces is NOWHERE near as potentially dangerous as learning how to tie one’s tie, because ties are tied around one’s neck, hence the term “necktie,” and a normal neck contains one’s esophagus, and thus, one overzealous tug on [...]



Tea Time Spells Trouble For Toads

By Billy • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Life

Toads are known throughout the animal kingdom for being grumpy.  I guess I can understand.  Hey, if I were covered in warts, had bad posture, and was forced to eat flies then I’d be irritable too.  And so would you.  And given that frogs are by nature cranky, if you provide them with any reason [...]



THE ART OF MAN-MOLDING

By Billy • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Life

Men NEVER try to change women.  BUT women ALWAYS try to change men.  And when a man chooses a woman, it’s because he likes the way she looks, acts, and thinks, and he has absolutely NO plan to change her.  But when a woman chooses a man, it’s because she does not likes the way [...]



DAYLILY DILEMMA

By Billy • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Life

Generally speaking, there is one major problem with marriage: women.   I don’t mean that in a bad way.  I’m just saying that after being married for a considerable amount of time, “a considerable amount of time” defined here as DIRECTLY after we men utter the words “I do,” women take over the matrimonial reins and [...]



Stop-N-Gawk

By Billy • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Life

Today we are going to talk about rubberneckers, which is a slang word used to described commuters who swivel their heads from side to side, oftentimes twisting it completely around in a circle, done in a desperate attempt to locate something along the side of the road to gawk at like, for instance, a tire-changer. [...]



Becoming a Professional Newspaper Humor Columnist 101

By Billy • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Life

Many of you are asking yourself, “How in the wide world of pigeon poop did this moron get hired to write a humor column?  He has the IQ of moss, only slightly soggier.”  My answer is simple: you’re jealous, because you’d love to have a job which allowed you to lounge around the house ALL [...]



Hug Me Till It Hurts

By Billy • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Life

Back in the day when I went to middle-school dances, absolutely NOBODY danced, there was no dancing, and EVERYBODY stood around staring at their feet and looking extra stupid.  And if ANY boy dared to attempt to get near ANY girl their bodies would act like the opposite sides of magnets and the invisible boy-girl [...]



AND IN THIS CORNER…

By Billy • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: Life

Your professional schoolyard bully has built in radar which allows him to single out the most likely candidate on the playground to play with, by which I mean beat up.  And that would have been me: the trembling target of my tormenter’s terror.
Now, I’m not sure what it was which gave away my unwillingness to [...]