Jimi and Damu the early years

What is the Year, Do You Think?

Jimi doesn't seem to fear the

Damu dog, heh??

Brutal Spouse Fighting Club

Caution--Violence Level High and Addictive

Is A-Rod Past Prime-Onioo News Asks

http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/arod-past-prime-unable-to-match-asinine-public-emb,26228/

He had a prime??? Hadn't heard that.

Bob Hoff

How to Break into Stand-up: 10 Tips for Beginner Comedians

Comedy Learning

See  http://comedians.about.com/od/breakingin/tp/breakintostandup10tips.htm

I endorse what Mr. Bromley is encouraging at the above link. Check out his cool and informative links. And revisit his site for other tips. Be willing to learn and practice comedy whenever you get the chance. I practice all the time and I think that I am one of the funniest people who I know. People who appreciate my humor agree with me.

And I believe it. I'll be doing what I urge you to do. Keep an open mind. Learn. Practice. Figure out what works, what doesn't, and why.

Good luck, fellow comedians. Keep laughing and helping other people to laugh. Laughter is good foreach and every one of us us.

Bob Hoff
Retired U.S. National Park Service Ranger
New Mexico, 2011

Some Detales:
Three sons, one grandson, and one wife
One dog
Years of telling jokes, weeks of rollicking laughs in response

Robert Benchley--"Love Conquers All" Available on Kindle

Available at Amazon.com Kindle page
Free

From: Love Conquers All
By: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Public Domain Book that can be read on Amazon's Kindle

We are occasionally confronted in the advertisements by the picture of an offensively bright-looking little boy, fairly popping with information, who, it is claimed in the text, knows all the inside dope on why fog forms in beads on a woolen coat, how long it would take to crawl to the moon on your hands and knees, and what makes oysters so quiet. The taunting catch-line of the advertisement is: "This Child Knows the Answer--Do You?" and the idea is to shame you into buying a set of books containing answers to all the questions in the world except the question "Where is the money coming from to buy the books?" Any little boy knowing all these facts would unquestionably be an asset in a business which specialized in fog-beads or lunar transportation novelties, but he would be awful to have about the house. "Spencer," you might say to him, "where are Daddy's slippers?" To which he would undoubtedly answer: "I don't know, Dad," (disagreeable little boys like that always call their fathers "Dad" and stand with their feet wide apart and their hands in their pockets like girls playing boys' rôles on the stage) "but I do know this, that all the Nordic peoples are predisposed to astigmatism because of the glare of the sun on the snow, and that, furthermore, if you were to place a common ordinary marble in a glass of luke-warm cider there would be a precipitation which, on pouring off the cider, would be found to be what we know as parsley, just plain parsley which Cook uses every night in preparing our dinner." With little ones like this around the house, a new version of "The Children's Hour" will have to be arranged, and it might as well be done now and got over with.

Benchley, Robert (2005). Love Conquers All (Kindle Locations 97-108). Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition.

Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley @ Brainyquote.com

Personal Note: I have been reading RB for years; he is one of my favorite comic essayists. Another of my favorite comic writers--Woody Allen--holds RB in very high regard. Benchley's grandson Peter Benchley wrote Jaws.

Me with my beard, and without it

"No, I am not related
 to John Muir"

This is a picture that I borrowed from a to-remain-unnamed-friend of mine because before I shaved off my beard recently I looked exactly like him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

"Honey, are we married yet?"

This is how I look now,

the same, but different

somehow around my edges

and middles.

Looking forward to another breakfast with Mr. Rocque Garcia

Rocque (“Rocky”) Garcia, in his career as a New Mexico State Policeman, was one of the most popular employees of that law enforcement branch in these parts. After he retired as a law enforcement officer, he worked as a park ranger with some of us other park rangers at the fabled Carlsbad Caverns National Park, making hundreds and hundreds more  personal friends from very recent strangers.
Why was Rocky so popular and still is as he nears the age of 80? Simply put, (1) he enjoys other people; and (2) he likes to put other people at ease and enjoy their company; and he is an interesting person with concern for his fellow human.
This morning I called Rocky to invite him to breakfast with another Park Service retiree and I (Jimmy S.) and as the conversation neared its end, Rock (and he is still strong as a Rock, believe me) said,
“Bobby, what did one plate say to the other?
What, Rocky?
Dinner is on me”
Then I said, “Rocky, do you know what happened after the two  plates fought?
Yeah, they were all broke up.”
And I said, “You know what the first plate said to the second plate?
What?
“You can dish it out, but you cant take it.
Rocky has that kind of fun effect on people wherever he goes.
So, we’re looking forward to another chance to be with him soon at breakfast. He’s, simply put, a great man.