[12/01] White Heat and Snake Oil Black Friday has come and gone, hopefully the majority of you survived it to “fight another day.” One more reason for me to be “ashamed of being American.” Now it appears that the official “I have to buy something to be happy season” is now in full swing. Let us pray the casualties will [...]
[12/01] Bundle Up Bought and Paid For The 2008 presidential campaign and congressional races cost an estimated $5.3 billion, shattering all previous records according to the Center for Responsible Politics’ (Isn’t that an Oxymoron?). While that a lot of money, it is still less than the $6 billion Americans spent this year on Halloween candy, costumes and decorations. America has [...]
[12/02] Made In China When I was a small lad, sitting at the supper table, and I did not eat all that was on my plate (usually vegetables) my father would say to me. “Eat your food, there are kids in China that are starving too death.” And I would think to myself, “What does he know? He has never been to China [...]
[12/02] Tuesday Funnies This morning as it is my nature, I took a stroll around the internet and found some interesting things. I found out that Mr. Bush is still blaming everyone else for the ills that are infecting the country, and steadfast refuses to assume any kind of responsibility for any action on his part. Two of [...]
[12/02] Monkey Business I have always wondered about it all, the descent of humanity from the trees, back when we decided that being monkeys, while fun, wasn’t getting the job done. How did we take that leap into consciousness, and how on earth could we have been so shortsighted – or something like that. IF man did truly [...]
[12/03] Cuddling with Yangyang Now that the election is officially over, what happens to all that money that is left over? I was wondering, if they (the people that helped get Mr. Obama elected) will get a Christmas bonus. It appears that everyone else is getting a wonderful package of something this year, everyone but the taxpayer that is. I [...]
[12/03] Today In Musak History II WARNING: IF YOU PRINT THIS POST OUT, AND THEN READ IT UPSIDE DOWN, WHILE DRINKING FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR COFFEE MUG, WITH YOUR LEFT FINGER PLUGGED INTO YOUR RIGHT EAR, YOU COULD POSSIBLY FIND A SATANIC MESSAGE … BUT I REALLY KIND OF DOUBT IT. (Now all of you who, wordpress.com customer support people [...]
[12/04] Number Six Hundred Greetings. If you haven’t been here before and this is your first time, welcome to Creative Endeavors, The Home Of BoxcarOkie.com. Today is a milestone for us, this is our 600th post this year, in the past 9 months we have posted to this blog-page a plethora of articles, some good, some not so good, [...]
[12/04] Sneak Into America (audio) Neil Diamond Parody of “Coming to America
[12/05] Broken Arrow 2008 Look down at the watch on your wrist (most people have one) or the clock on the wall (most offices have one) and make a mental note of thirty minutes. Got it? Good. Now all that worrying, all that concern, all that getting upset about nothing? It is for naught. All of this, every last minute [...]
[12/05] Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner Relatives can bring new meaning to the nations capitol and the papers are abuzz with rumors that Mr. Obama’s mother-in-law is going to move into the White House to take over the chore of raising the girls. Sounds kind of strange “the first girls” but we have a pair of them now, don’t we? Some [...]
[12/05] Book Worm If you were asked to, could you sum up your life in six words. Think about it. Six words. There is a best seller out right now Not Quite What I Was Planning (Harper $16.95) that asks that very question. The book is filled with six word phrases by the famous, and the not so famous, [...]
[12/06] I Don’t Get It Having just finished, no correction, “having just tried” to read 7,864 words on “Why John McCain, having been born in Panama is considered a U.S. Citizen” I have to admit. I just don’t get it. Why does anyone in their right mind devote some 8,000 words to a subject as benign as this, and why [...]
[12/06] Deep In Mississippi My memory not being as razor sharp as it used to be requires me every now and then, to write it down. I carry in my pocket a small notepad which I use to make notes to myself as the day progresses. Also have a small pocket recorder about the size of pack of smokes [...]
[12/06] Deep In Mississippi My memory not being as razor sharp as it used to be requires me every now and then, to write it down. I carry in my pocket a small notepad which I use to make notes to myself as the day progresses. Also have a small pocket recorder about the size of pack of smokes [...]
[12/06] Saturday Wowser I am sitting at the bank, and the banker says to me, “Do you have our new VISA with the photo ID yet?” and I say “No.” So then he says to me, “Why not?” And I reply, “You charge for your VISA and have all these fee’s, I am not into that.” So then he [...]
[12/06] Thirty Something Email of the week If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious! I found it somewhat amusing, as in the “eighties” I had already exceeded age forty, and had been gainfully employed 12 or 13 years, and had kids in high school. So here you go … the email of the week. When [...]
[12/06] Sky angel (audio) God told me ….. [...]
[12/08] Womens’ Underwear Now that title should attract every internet troll in the Universe, should be amusing to see what transpires. Want a big hit count? Put the word S-E-X somewhere in the title or “imply that the word S-E-X” is somewhere in there, then sit back and watch ‘em come. There are two things in this world that [...]
[12/08] Working For Uncle Sam Soviet Leader Putin was in town recently, visiting the United States, and he met a Russian who immigrated to the USA. “What do you do for a living here, in this new country,” he asked. And then the young fellow said to him, “My sister and I we work in a big factory.” Then Putin [...]
[12/09] Love Is In the Air And a whole lot of pollen too. I have been sneezing and snorting, to beat the band. Isn’t Oklahoma grand? With no moisture in about a thousand years, the ragweed is so thick you could cut it with a knife. If it wasn’t for love, stirring my inner being and emotions, I don’t know what [...]
[12/09] Bail Out Blues Talk about hacking you off. I understand that there is this bank down in Louisiana that is receiving $90 million in bailout money from the Fed’s. Only one drawback. The bank, New Iberia, is in the black, has been all year, posting record profits and is fit and healthy as a horse. So why are we [...]
[12/10] Holla Daze Polar Bear Xpress came rippin thru here today and it got colder than eight brass monkey’s from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt. I am here to tell you brothers and sisters, wintertime has arrived, and as usual, I was not ready. Got your Christmas shopping done? I hear the thrift stores are really doing the [...]
[12/10] Team Players If you write a blog page and you want a lot of hits, put up something with the word “Obama” on it in the title or somewhere where it can be found, and you will get hits. Now “hits” or visits, doesn’t naturally translate into comments. Comments are a horse of a different color, comments [...]
[12/11] Between The Lines Recently I found myself very much engaged in a spirited conversation with my thirteen year old grandson. I don’t know why, common sense would dictate that I would be better off minding my own business, but never the less, there we were. Both of us locked into our ritual of trying to find some common [...]
[12/11] Nobody Cares About Your Dreams Coffee is good this morning, a little bite to it, but that is okay, it is cold here and uncomfortable. Americans drink about 400 million cups of coffee per day, that is a lot of coffee, that is an ocean of coffee. Which is kind of strange, when you stop to think about it. Coffee [...]
[12/11] You Get What You Pay For Man, the news was so bad tonight, that I just turned it off and went outside in the backyard to scream! Which really doesn’t do me a whole lot of good, but I just love watching the neighbor’s dog run to the end of his chain and then pow! This evening I am thinking about that [...]
[12/12] I’m Walkin Maybe it is me, but I just cannot for the life of me figure out where they find all these happy-sappy folks on television that are smiling and laughing all the while they are exercising. Exercising sucks, I don’t care what Richard Simmons sez …. All this “Walking can add minutes to your life”. What [...]
[12/12] Final Expenses The shoe is on the other foot now boys … How does it feel? You know who I am talking about here, all you wonderful folks with no customer service, 15% restocking fee’s. All those lousy good-for-nothing rebate forms that are somehow never filled out correctly or submitted on time, and do not pay off. How does it feel? [...]
[12/12] Frost – Nixon Ronnie Howard has a new movie out, “Frost – Nixon” and it is a pretty good movie. I am not a movie critic, I know what I like and what I do not like, and this movie is okay. Strange, but Ron Howard (Opie) has been in the business some fifty years now, it just [...]
[12/13] Feeding The Monster This week I found myself having lunch with an old friend, and we started talking about the mess in the automobile industry. We spoke of unions, buy-outs, bail-outs, government charity cases and whatever else they are calling it this week. Used to be at lunchtime the banter was light and cheerful, but here lately, that [...]
[12/13] Email of the Week Here tiz: A few years back I stopped at a coin shop in a nearby town. The owner was an elderly gentleman in his late 70’s. He was a friendly and knowledgeable man and I often found myself stopping by to visit with him even if I wasn’t shopping for coins. Chester was [...]
[12/14] 12 Days Of Christmas (audio)
[12/15] Me And Mrs. Claus (audio)
[12/15] A.I.G. Remembering a time when life wasn’t all that good for me, and I found myself staring into the mirror, and the guy on the other side said to me, “Baby, you aint much, but you are all I got.” Kind of stayed with me a long time, that thought or that moment. If all of this [...]
[12/15] No Fruit Cake End of the year rapidly coming down on us, so much left to do and so little time to do it. The wife sent me to ChinaMart over the weekend, Saturday to be specific. Which is not a nice thing to do to the person you love, send them off to a SuperCenter that is [...]
[12/15] Another Crap Sandwich A lot of talk here lately about newspapers folding or shutting down and stopping. It might be because of the popularity of the Internet or the plain simple fact, that a lot of what they print is not news, it doesn’t even come close to being described as news. A lot of it is just [...]
[12/17] Flu Ride (audio) Parody of Seigh Ride
[12/17] Brad & Jolie Phone Home President-elect Barack Obama this week announced plans to launch the largest public works program in a half-century. In the hope of creating millions of jobs and stimulating the sinking U.S. economy. The new federal program that mirrors Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Dwight Eisenhower’s massive project to create the federal highway system, will hire workers to [...]
[12/17] Feliz Navidad The life of an immigrant in this country cannot be anything close to wondrous or perfect. You are working in a lot of instances for “slave wages” and you cannot complain, you cannot fight back, you have to take it, you are here, unfortunately illegally and therefore, it is in your best interest to be [...]
[12/17] Nobody’s Watching Shoppin for the holidays It is late in the day, you are loaded down with bags of recent purchases, in tow are three little dinkers, it is cold and the wind has a bite to it. They are cold and they are cranky. And to make matters worse, you cannot for the life of you figure [...]
[12/18] He’s So Jolly (Parody of Hello Dolly) Christmas tune & video
[12/18] Today’s Wordplay – Twisted Tunes Looks like it is going to be one of those days. I come in here, and the first thing I find is a 500 word comment from some guy in India using made up pretend words and wanting to argue. Brad & Jolie Phone Home has him all up in a tizzy. No sense of [...]
[12/19] Our Ladies Deserve Better I know that I said I was going to write about some of this drivel that Condolesa Rice has been putting out, but I came across this cartoon yesterday (If you click on it, it will produce a better copy in the editor, it didn’t do too well here) and it kind of stirred me [...]
[12/20] Alabama Slamma A friend of mine in Alabama sent this one to me this week, it is definitely worth the time spent to read it. I Believe… That just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do love each other. I Believe… That we don’t have [...]
[12/20] Christmas Elves (audio) 06 Days until Christmas! [...]
[12/22] How Can We Serve You Man, have you purchased any post-it notes lately? They are up over $5 for one package, for post it notes, C’mon? Things are so tight over there at 3-M, I understand they have officially changed their corporate logo to reflect it. The new business mantra, “less for more.” Flying High I understand that the National Institute of [...]
[12/23] There’s Another Santa (audio)
[12/23] You Want Fries With That Saturday I found myself having a McDonalds snack attack, so I drove over to get me a Rubber McMuffin or a Burger and Fries, could not make up my mind. So I am looking at the menu that said I could have an order of 6,9, or 12 McNuggets. That sounded good, I hadn’t had [...]
[12/24] Christmas Last Year (audio)
[12/26] It’s a good life Another wonderful tradition has come and gone (only three times this year) and that is the Frank Capra Classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Despite having Jimmy Stewart for the lead, and being made by Capra, the movie wasn’t a big hit when it was first released in 1946. It may have been due to [...]
[12/27] Credit Crunch Have noticed more people paying with cash for their purchases here lately, could it be the American Love Affair with the Credit Card is over? Aggressive rate increases on credit cards are threatening to pushing struggling consumers into financial ruin, accelerating home foreclosures and the nations’ decent into recession. Keeping up with the Jones’es isn’t as [...]
[12/27] Old Geezers (video) My grandchildren think that I am old geezer. And I suppose to a certain degree, they are right. I am older than dirt on most days, I can still remember an episode of Saturday Night Live that was actually funny, I did vote for Nixon. The weekend of Woodstock is still ever present and fresh [...]
[12/29] Turning Another Corner We are still trying to hit “One Million” visitors to this site by March 12th, 2009. Please pass the address around (www.boxcarOkie.com) and help us to meet that goal. Thanks. Found myself sitting around most of this day watching Beach Video’s on cable. I like the “eye candy” and there is the added “suspense [...]
[12/29] Cast Thy Booty On The Water Two women have opened an unusual specialty shop in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lingerie for religious women. The Seek Ye First Lingerie Shop appeals to women who want to be “alluring” but not “sleazy,” said the two Baptist owners. Apparently customers like the idea — the owners report brisk sales at the “thong rack.” Hallelujah our prayers have been answered. [...]
[12/29] The Bare Facts Often in life, it just doesn’t add up. A full 25% of all Americans believe Sherlock Holmes is a real person, he is not. Ernest Wrights 1939 novella Gadsby does not contain the letter “e.” In how many Agatha Christie novels did the butler do it? None. Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in only six [...]
[12/29] Let’s Get Serious A soon to be “former” President of the United States has depicted the terrorist attacks against Americans as somehow due to slavery and past wars of conquest against the Indians. And he was applauded at one of our most prestigious universities for saying it. Nothing like this happened during World War II. Even those who [...]
[12/30] Mayberry’s Hero Watched some captivating and interesting television last night (for a change). It celebrated the history and the works of Ron Howard (Opie Taylor), all of his movies as a producer and director. His efforts on the screen as a child actor and star. I certainly was not aware of the copious volumes of his work, and [...]
[12/30] God-Less Dawgs This mornings paper says that we are turning into a nation of pandering, God-less dogs, and that there is a decline in believers in this country. In 2003, 90% of all American’s believed in a God, that is down to 80%. 82% of us used to believe in Heaven, now only 73% are sure it is [...]
[12/31] Gearing Up for ‘09 What is that television soap, oh yeah, “Days Of Our Lives.“ where the hourglass of time has the sand slowly flowing thru and they wax poetic with some kind of phrase or something like that? I don’t have one sorry … Just trying like the rest of you to find a way to hardwire myself [...]
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