Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for November 21, 2020

T’was a wild one!

What were the buckles on the hats for? To keep their heads from exploding?

But he still isn’t the champion of anything. That buckle would have to be much, much larger if he were a champion something or other.

(just to be picky) that should be “How was thy trip out west?”

Also, back then west would have been the other end of the state.

In those days that meant a trip to Worcester.

The pilgrims kids all wore their buckles backwards.

“What’s it to ya, pilgrim?”

Longhorn…..?

He met John Wayne out there, and a catch phrase was born: “Lemme tellya, Pilgrim,”…

Yee ha!

thine (thīn) pron. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.

adj. A possessive form of thou used instead of “thy” before an initial vowel or h

Texas Mennonite

“He wears a strange hat that worships the bull, he must be a sorcerer.” “He must be burned at the stake.”

May I seeth thy new LA Gear sneakers?

I had a rootin-tootin time!

The original advice to “Go West, young man” was to transfer to Buffalo. In the time of thine pilgrims, there was no west end of the state; there was no state.

… long