Monthly Archives: November 2019

White Trash Test

November 15, 2019 – 10:23 am

The Halloween pumpkin on your front porch has more teeth than your spouse. You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the table in front of her kids. You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws. You think a woman who is “out of your league” bowls on a different night. Jack Daniel’s […]

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$148 LEVIS by Peter Nolan Smith

November 15, 2019 – 5:45 am

My mother dressed my older brother and me in jeans for most of the 1950s and early 1960s, however when the hippies adopted the tough western trousers as part of their unofficial uniform, Cardinal Cushing of the Boston diocese banned Levis on his evening rosary program. A fierce Catholic my mother obeyed the Pope’s representative […]

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Top 10 White Trash USA Towns

November 14, 2019 – 8:44 pm

www.roadsnacks.net listed the top white trash towns in the USA. I haven’t lived in any of them, although I’ve been to several. Fall River, Mass. is only forty miles from the South Shore. The methopolis leads the Bay State in assaults, welfare claims, and crime. It wasn’t that bad in the 1960s, but Fall River […]

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07-07-07

November 10, 2019 – 9:47 pm

The Great Powers singed the Armistice of Versailles to end WWI on the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Soldiers continued to fire artillery rounds after the deadline, but soon ceased the final bombardment. The repetitive numerology of 111 was most effective in stilling the […]

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Glaringly Guilty

November 7, 2019 – 4:16 pm

In the Spring of 1969 I was driving home from Nantasket to the Blue Hills in the 1968 Volkwagen Beetle. Outside Hingham Center was a traffic light blinking yellow. That day was no different, however a town police cruiser flicked on his siren and I pulled over to the shoulder. The officer approached my car […]

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