Read LawDog Files for laughter

Really funny storyteller

If you like Patrick McManus or Roy Blount, odds are you’ll split a side reading Law Dog, who is a Texas Deputy Sheriff and an expert storyteller.  One of his posts (linked from Cajun) started a big discussion in our house which MrsDoF actually carried over to her blog.  That got me reading some of LawDog’s other posts.

Anyway, this is a story from LawDog’s youth, when he and his brother were making rockets from bamboo and homemade blackpowder.  One of their 5-gallon batches of blackpowder set into a giant solid lump, which they needed to grind into a fine powder for it to work:

... Not to be defeated, my brother and I fetched our (steel) rock hammers, and with a mighty effort from our scrawny, sub-teenage muscles managed to reduce our war materiel to a large pile of walnut-sized chunks. Totally unsuitable for our purposes, and at a considerable expenditure in sweat (and sparks, I should add - steel hammers and a concrete driveway).

Anyhoo, somewhere along in our ruminations, we remembered The Coffee Grinder…
The LawDog Files: The rise and fall of the Nigerian space program

Home made blackpowder and an electric coffee grinder?  OK, I gave you the link; I’m not responsible for what happens if you click on it wink

Posted by George on 04/08/06 at 04:42 PM

  1. He is a funny guy. I cracked up a bit ago at his story about the t-shirt

    Posted by GUYK  on  04/08/06  at  07:34 PM

  2. Jay when he could see sat here and laughed his butt off at Law Dog. He is waiting on his sight recovery to get caught up on the blog.

    Posted by momma  on  04/09/06  at  07:59 PM

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