EDITOR’S NOTE: Life Behind the Pine Curtain is a series of anecdotes collected and edited by Herald-Press Publisher Gary Connor.
Fishing
A retired Palestine man went fishing one morning, but after a short time he ran out of bait.
Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. "Frogs are good bass bait," he thought to himself.
Knowing the snake couldn't bite him with the frog in his mouth, he grabbed the snake right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in his bait bucket.
Just then, he realized he had a problem: How was he going to release the snake
without getting bit?
So, he grabbed his bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in the snake’s mouth.
The snake's eyes rolled back and he went limp. He released him into the lake without incident and carried on fishing using the frog.
A little later, the fisherman felt a nudge at his foot. There was that same snake with two more frogs in its mouth.
Life is good in East Texas.
Texting
An East Texas house wife texted her husband at work on a cold February morning: "Windows frozen."
The husband texted back: "Pour some lukewarm water over it."
The wife texted back 5 minutes later: "Computer completely messed up now."
Opinion
February 2, 2013
LIFE BEHIND THE PINE CURTAIN: Two East Texas Stories
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- INSTANT MESSAGE: The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost
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COOKING WITH SIMON: Keep Your Cool with Summer Desserts
Temperatures are finally on the rise and while the heat hasn’t set in yet, soon we’ll be longing for something cool.
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At the Movies: '42' well told and worth telling
By now everyone has heard of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play major league baseball. He is in all the history textbooks, along with a host of other “firsts,” which is, after all, history-making. But Brian Helgeland’s “42” does a fantastic job of humanizing the story of Jackie Robinson.
- INSTANT MESSAGE: Finding our purpose in Christ
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COOKING WITH SIMON: The great flavor of the Lone Star State
- LIFE BEHIND PINE CURTAIN: Child prays in restaurant
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