Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.