WHEW! HOW DID WE GET ON THIS PLANET? -- for Just A Minute Radio Wednesday 120104

Well, I never knew exactly what to expect on the12th day of Christmas… but it comes along somewhere on this route.

 

Communication sent to me from the OFA (Old Farmer’s Almanac) tells me ‘Tis today… I guess I miscounted somewhere – I figured it was tomorrow. But then ‘tomorrow’ never comes according to old songs.

 

More and more I forget – and one of my New Year’s Resolutions was not to forget so much. I suppose that’s not something to be ‘resolved about.

 

Anyway we’ve passed the first hurdle of the New Year… the Iowa Caucus. By now your radio or whatever news pipe you use has told you a lot – much about what happened in Iowa yesterday.   Still there is much to learn. What IS going to happen?  Well…. We won’t know that until November we think. Can we wait that long?  Nah… it’s like waiting for Christmas to come – again… it’s not ready yet. (J)

 

I hope you are recovering from Christmas and New Years… and even the 12^th day too if that was a problem. We certainly are ‘filled up’ with politics. No sooner is Iowa passed but the expectation of what will happen in New Hampshire is on the board. Then comes South Carolina on the 21^st.  I was on the SC GOP committee back a ways when we visited five sites I think all around the State considering if we wanted to have the Primary continue to be run by the Party or the government… The decision came in favor of the State doing it… so now we pay taxes to have the government count and administer the ballots for what used to be a political party’s responsibility. 

 

Well… things change. That’s something we learned from the candidate back a ways wasn’t it… HOPE and CHANGE.  I think we have a shorter slogan for the political outlook now. I’m not going to wade off into that thicket. 

 

I picked up news on the Internet that next year about this time there will be a new movie about the Hobbit… Did you know that?  They’ve even started to make the movie trailers... Isn’t that odd.  All of those I’ve been around the trailers were made at the end… but then there are lots of things that get changed around in this modern world.

 

So I’m making a change right now. Instead of staying up to document the end of the beginning (the beginning of the primary voting) I’ll let the radio tell you about it and everyone who ‘knew all along who was going to win, to tell you why and how they knew.  Meantime… I’ll think about baseball. (J)

 

Have a great day!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WHEW, HOW DID WE GET ON THIS PLANET?

 

BB: Jist A Minit: Jist where are we now Mr.  Mr. Jack?

Jack: We’re at the start of two thousand twelve Mr. Bill.

MizP: Ah wasn’t fer sure we’s gonna make it .

Homer: Facs is Miz Pearl I ain’t sure we’s made hit yet.

Jack: Oh yes – we’re here Homer. You and Miz Pearl and Billy-Bob –

         We’re all safe and sound at the  Bait Shop and Sushi Bar .

MizP: In Playfair?

Jack: In Playfair Miz Pearlie … on the Carolina Line.

MizP: Well that-ut las week in 2011 jess ‘bout wore me out.

Jack: Things get busy at the year change over don’t they.

BB: So’s th’ firs cawcus has done happened in I-oh-way?.

Jack: Well Mr. Billy – it sure has.

MizP: Well don’t keep us in tenderhooks… what’s a goin’ on?

Homer: I watched an listened but had a hard time making sense of hit.

BB: Yeah Me too!

Jack: That’s the way the Iowa caucus goes.  ---

MizP: An we got ‘nother’n comin up I heer?

Jack: Right – by this time next week we’ll hear from New Hampshire.

BB: Whut air they a’goin’ ta deecide?

Homer: Same thang theys’ tryin’ ta dee-cide in I-oh-way…

Jack: Right Billy-bob --  selecting delegates to their convention.

MizP: Allof a suddin we’s in th’ middle of electrifyin’ th ‘lection.

Homer: Thas rite Miz P… an rite down heer in South Car’liner we….

BB: We’s gonna do th’ same thang on th’ twenny-firs’ of Jan-u-erry.

MizP: Oh… I had done fergot all ‘bout tha-ut.

               But who won yestiddy?

Jack: It’s not all settled yet.

BB: They’s more procedurin’ ta go on.

MizP: They’s still a-makin’ up they mines?

Jack: Something like that. Iowa’s selection is different from other states.

BB: Ah – fer one, will be glad when we git outtn th’ woods.

Homer: So will Ah Mr. Bill.

MizP:  Well hit’s all cornfusin’ ta me.

Homer: Hit is ta mos everbody, Miz Pearlie.  We’ll splain hit to yer.

Jack: I’m afraid our time for ‘splainin—will have to come later…

BB: Time up already?

Jack: Just flies… See you’all next week. I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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