Very funny!

http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/2002-06-01/roundup.php 

Oops! Can't click on it. Go to www.texasmonthly.com Type "Kinky Friedman" in the search engine and click on his latest essay "Blowing Smoke". It's worth the trouble.

Great essay. Thanks. Leave it to Kinky to finish with my favorite cigar smoker, Ernie Kovacs, creator of the the Nairobi Jazz Quintet (maybe it was quartet, it was a long time ago) and my favorite poet, Percy Dovetonsils. Ernie's wife, Edie Adams, was the TV blond sexpot spokesgirl for Muriel Cigars ("Why don't you pick me up and smoke me sometime." When Ernie traveled, the first thing he packed was two boxes of cigars. They weren't Muriels. They cost him $2 each, a lot of money in the 1950's. Ernie died way too young, a genuine comic genius. Thanks again, JR. (hmmmm. can i use jreddochs initials on this board? hey, Slimboli!)

And I was thinking I am a heavy smoker Edison 40 a Day,yet I saw a movie about winston and he smoked while eating,it startet in the morning with breakfast and lets not forget the american Ikon George Burns, smok'em up guys. Amen

A goodun. I too loved the Nairobi trio,Percy Dovetonsels and those glasses he wore and Edie Adams...UMMMM. Ernie K was indeed great. X

X, you and Rick and I must be about the same age and craziness.

A funny thing about Churchill, he was such an avid cigar smoker that he had a crew make an oxygen mask for him that would allow for cigar smoking when he was going up in an airplane that didn't have a pressurized cabin and thus required oxygen masks to be worn throughout the flight.

Ka-Boom!

I cut down on my smoking. Now I only smoke one at a time.

Kinky is a lot of fun to read and to listen to when he is on a talk show! He is one of the guys who smokes cigars all day long! Charlie

Espychick,Kaboom used 2 be my favorite breakfast cereal. I wonder if anybody even remembers it. X

Sure...isn't it Shredded Wheat or Grape-Nuts? At least it is for me, LOL!

Count Chokula!

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. You're acting like a pup! Captain Crunch man! Yes, with crunch berries!

Cereals, didn't have that stuff when I was a kid, first thing in the morning we had to go out and steal fire from another clan to cook our T-Rex steaks. JonR

mmmmmm fire good, me no got.

xibbumbero & eleltea.--- what are your dob's. lets see who is the oldest fart on the bb.

Rick, 1.) you got me by a bit less than 8 years. 2.) Diana Ross and I have the same birthday........
This data will reveal the truth to a sufficiently motivated gamester.

ELELTEA---so you were born a poor black girl and went on to invent ??

Rick,I'm old enough to remember that before TV,we used to listen to the Inner Sanctum on radio. We used to turn off the lights and had 2 radios,one at each end of the livingroom. Kind of a precursor to stereo. Man, when I heard the sound of that door opening,I would bury my head under a pillow. To this day,nothing I've seen on the screen can scare me like the radio did. As far as how old I am,see if U can guess. I graduated high school in 1962. X