A few weeks ago I relented and followed the plea of Lonna Moeller of little Bennett, Iowa. She wanted me to rerun a couple of her favorite jokes.
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Good heavens! Even the holy cannot escape the scofflaws. But counterfeit money?
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I always wondered how I would write about something like this… I have cancer. There are varieties and stages of cancer, but I have it bad, and that ain't good. What I have is a very aggressive type of cancer. It scares the hell out of me.
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Jim Hodges had no craven interest in death, but he was fascinated by what was written about it.
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Jim Hodges had no craven interest in death, but he was fascinated by what was written about it.
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The benign gray tombstone is like so many among the oaks and pines at Pine Hill Cemetery in north Davenport. It is of some size and is engraved with a simple name: "Earhart." Around it are 10 smaller stone family markers with such first names as Alfred, Herman, Maria and Emogene.
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Slices of life in a hurrying mall …
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Before settling down for a day of much of nothing, the phone was jangling and e-mail was filling up with responses to a bit that had made the dark of print in this noospaper on Tuesday.
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Remembering a high school afternoon, early in the semester, the autumn of 1942 … World War II was not going well for America.
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Listen to fourth-graders tell what makes the Quad-Cities different than ANYWHERE, U.S.A. You're going to be surprised. They'll pass over the tall building with the clock in downtown Davenport. There's a good chance they'll vote for Tastee Freez - the one with the big lit ice cream cone - …
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They are bronze hands that could be anyone's hands. They honor Mary Lou Kleine, who had a compassion for people with disabilities.
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If I ruled the Quad-Cities, every day would be like last Wednesday. I would jump over the rest of the season and make every single day as heavenly as Wednesday. Autumn was staging its last gasp of Indian summer.
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Hey, we all get goofy at this time of year. That's good. Halloween is the only holiday when someone can cruise around - howzatt? - with a skeleton in the front seat. Or show up at Whitey's looking like an escapee from a murder scene.
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It's a painful thought, but there are days - maybe months - when the only things remembered about this space are the laugh lines. During idling moments visiting the high school in Bennett, Iowa, I had the courage to ask the school secretary, Lonna Moeller, if she ever reads my column. Tw…
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No one ever has much good to say about Jack Reagan, but in Bennett, Iowa - 30 miles northwest of the Quad-Cities - they've dedicated a rock with a bronze plaque to him.
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The wind had picked up again, a chilly afternoon. It is cold, under a gloomy Iowa-gray sky. Just beyond the wind is a road less traveled, good old Iowa 130. It is a road without romance.
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THINGS WENT wrong when we began to get three different 5-pound telephone books for the Quad-Cities.
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During National Newspaper Week, which my old Royal typewriter did not even notice, I could not resist returning to my old haunts.
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This is supposed to be the unbeatable month. So far, I have yet to agree with Russell Baker, a retired talent for the New York Times who used to become fatigued after writing two columns a week. He once wrote that there is little disagreement that October is the best month of the year. I…
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A week ago this afternoon, Marilyn and Fran Riley walked into TC's Point After in DeWitt. It was a brilliant afternoon. They had been leaf-watching in Bellevue and St. Donatus.
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Bill Wundram, a lifelong Quad-Citizen, as he would call himself, has been on the staff of the Quad-City Times and its predecessors for more than 65 years. He has worked as a reporter and an award-winning features editor and currently writes five columns a week, down slightly from the seven per week he did just a few years ago. He has won countless writing awards and honors, has authored several books, and his work has appeared in national publications. Bill and his wife, Helen, have been married for 57 years. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.
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