"I don't like to
tell other people how to spend their time and money," Ivan said, "but if you want to have a fun evening, just go up and watch our boys basketball team. I really don't know how good they are, but they are the best I've seen in a long time. I mean, they have the big uns, they have the ones who are quick, they've got the shooters, and they play defense. This is high school basketball at its very best."
"Ya ever notice I don't say much about wrestling," Ivan said. "I suppose ya have. It's not that I have anything against wrestling. It's just that I don't know squat about wrestling. I've looked for a book called Wrestling for Dummies, but so far haven't found one. So what I would like to see happen is for the wrestling coach and the wrestlers to put on a wrestling clinic on Channel 17 sometime. Explain the rules, the different holds, and the scoring. You know, enough for us to understand and enjoy what was going on. They could go into a wrestling practice and show us what was good, what was bad, and what wasn't allowed. Think on 'er."
"When they get to talking politics at Paul's Cafe," Ivan said, "they make fun of the Democrats UNTIL Arden Devlin shows up. When Devlin gets to laying the facts on the Republican majority in Paul's, they hush up. When Devlin parades fact after fact about the shortcomings of the current administration, it makes the only other Democrat think, 'I wish I'd said that.'"
"Have you ever heard about the family that every Christmas played a game called 'Have You See Jesus?'" Ivan asked. "Every year they put out a plastic Nativity Scene, and every year the wind would come up and blow it away. So on Christmas morning, they would go around the neighborhood asking, 'Have you seen Jesus?'"
"Francis Runyon had calf cramps a couple days last week," Ivan reported. "The advice he received from the As the Bladder Fills table was to 'eat more bananas.' But, one thing, you don't want to put banana peels in the disposal."
"Me trying to run a computer," Ivan suggested, "is like Charlie Brown trying to fly a kite."
"Mike Hughes bought a new recliner," Ivan reported. "He gave it a shakedown cruise last Tuesday. He sat down to watch some television. The next thing he knew, it was three o'clock in the morning."
"We used to call it wrasslin' when I was a kid," Ivan said. "Now it is called wrestling and it more scientific and probably a lot more fun if you know for sure what is going on."
"Bobbi Miles was taking notes at the As the Bladder Fills Club last Friday morning," Ivan said. "She had gotten some inquiry from some Ivy Lerague school wanting to know about the middlewest. This, in my opinion, is not the middlewest. This is the Great Plains. As far as I'm concerned, the middlewest stops at the Jewell County line. Everything west of Jewell County, to me, is Plains country."
"Has there been enough snow to guarantee a bumper wheat crop?" Ivan asked. "I don't know how much it takes, but I've had enough already."
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