Knobby Bits

Defending Knuckleheads the World Over

by Pat Darnell

I even wrote a poem about Knuckleheads. But we will save that little tidbit for later during tea time. It's only forty stanzas of free verse... you'll love it.

My favorite question was once by a thirty-ish, bachelor, Beaudreaux, who asked yours truly: "And what about you, MooPig... what do you use when you shave.." Poor devil had been shaving since he was eleven, and still asking his co-workers, us married, divorced, grandpas, escapist devils, how to shave. Do I look like a Knucklehead?

Anyhow, I answered: "You really don't want to know." It was a full clip stop to what I was winding up with ... "You REALLY don't want to know," I said.

I did not continue that conversation... and Beaudreaux didn't pursue it. Good Boy.

One of my favorite books is a book titled: "Dumbology, the Book of Gaffes, Foul Ups, and Blunders" written by Geoff Tibballs, a Brit we think, who gives new perspectives on considerable numbers of gaffes in western civilization. I pick it up and read a few historical, hysteria producing, passages, then go back to reading light poles and labels on Del Monte cans, and such. So, I gave a copy to Beaudreaux... I think he likes it. I saw him later reading it back to front -- a sure sign when knuckleheads are happily engaged. Shhhh now...