As you are read through these honorable mentions, you might wonder why they weren’t the winning entries. They are all worthy. Some years there were more than others. These lies are in no particular order, unless noted.
2022
“My dog is so confused with all the political whistle blowers he doesn’t know which way to go or what to do.”
– Wayne Everts
“I’m not saying that diesel fuel is expensive but the bank has a loan officer next to the pump.”
– Dan Anderson
“On Valentine’s Day I asked my wife whether she would like breakfast in bed. She said that would be very thoughtful so I pushed the bed out into the kitchen. Even went to the extra effort of making sure that she could reach both the stove and the refrigerator. I didn’t even get a ‘thank you’.”
– Jim Wickert
“For the past 15 years I have been unable to eat any of my favorite foods, such as Italian, Mexican, Greek or drink any bee. This is due to a very touchy stomach. I saw an article about a clinic in a country that shall go unnamed. I made contact with them about getting a stomach transplant with that of a goat. I had the operation done about a year ago. And when I returned home by first meal was a huge place of spaghetti with extra sauce and I drank several beers after which I ate the cans. I gotta say it wasn’t baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.”
– Jim Kubath
2021
“My wife’s clothes were taking over our closet, so I told her that every time she adds a new piece of clothing she has to donate one to the Salvation Army. Today she donated my last shirt to the Salvation Army.”
– Richard Schaaf“I love to play golf, unfortunately, I’m not very good. In fact, I’m so bad I had to have my ball retriever regripped.”
– Larry Ellis“I once won a hide-n-seek contest by sticking my feet in my mouth and swallowing myself. Still have yet to be found”
– Tim Repka
2020
“I’m always jealous of my brother-in-law in Michigan because he’s an hour ahead of us, he always knows the outcome of the Packer game before I do.”
– Chuck Goldstein“I’m so old that when I was born the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was just a trio.”
– Dave Hildebrand“Our little league team was so bad, the opposing coach would tell his players, “hit ‘em where they are.” ”
– Gerard Vail“2020 has been a disappointing year in many ways. My entry to the Liars Club didn’t even win.”
– Shad Branen
2019
“My bird dog Goofy never gives up. I lost Goofy on opening day when he picked up the scent of a pheasant at Wisconsin’s Richard Bong Hunting Grounds. Weeks later, during a hunting trip to Miller, South Dakota, I stumbled on Goofy, on point and holding his bird.”
– John Kiel“I didn’t notice that my new television remote had a button labeled ‘mutate’ instead of ‘mute.’ When I pressed it for the first time, my television turned into a dishwasher!”
– Bill Apmann“My neighbor Steve cut his grass so much this year that he had to rotate the tires on his lawn mower.”
– Jerry Steimle“I bet on a dog in the sixth race that was so slow he won the seventh race.”
– Robert Puntillo
2018
“I cleaned my two-car garage so well that it turned into a three-car garage.”
– Eve Dutkiewicz“I don’t want to say my mother-in-law is bossy, but when she takes her teeth out at bedtime they nag my father-in-law for 10 more minutes.”
– Dale Wheelock
2017
“I am getting tired of losing socks in the dryer, but what really bothers me is when I later hear the dryer burp.”
– Ed Zillmer
“During the flood of 2017, I was driving though so much water that the DNR pulled me over to check my truck for personal flotation devices.”
– Mark Kolczaski
“Growing up, our parents were so cheap, they would take my sister and I to a pet store and tell us it was the zoo.”
– Chad Giles
“My grandfather had 8 kids in 10 years. He would have had more, but he got the flu twice.”
– Ryan Romenesko
“My doctor told me to increase my fish oil consumption. So I did. So much so I can now breath under water.”
– Raymond Baker
2016
The parking lot of the coffee shop I go to has pot holes so big they have to put no fishing signs up when it rains.
–Dale Wheelock
My friend’s credit is so bad, nobody will even take his cash.
–Neil Everts
I went fishing this summer and dropped by cell phone in the lake. The next day, I got a selfie of a 16″ walleye!
–Tom Uhen
2015
It has been so dry here that the river is only running every other day.
–Neil Everts
According to research presented at the 2015 World Climate summit, a major climate shift occurred as the result of hot flashes experienced when the Baby Boomers reached menopause.
–Jill Rozell
2014
Some species of elephants have red toe nails in order to hide in strawberry patches.
– Joshua Naker
I was eating in an outdoor cafe. It rained so hard it took me one hour to finish my soup.
–Thomas J. Balza
2013
I have two dogs. I named them Go Away and Nevermind. Whenever I call Go Away he disappears. And if I call Nevermind, then Go Away comes back.
– Kevin Duerson
I knew an old blacksmith and farrier that was so good he could shoe a running horse.
– Wayne Everts
I grew up in a family so large and so poor so my mother used a pill splitter to divide up a bag of M&M’s and then passed them around.
– Rita Schumacher
It was sooo cold one morning in Plainfield that my neighbor’s dog was froze to my rear tire.
– David Poetzel
Wisconsin is known for its cheeses. The other day, I went to a local cheese mart and picked up some 10-year-old cheddar. It was so sharp it cut my tongue in three places, but was worth it.
– David Oldenburg
2012
It was sooooooo dry this past summer, a Piss Elm tree was following a dog around.
– Gene C. Lasch
I have been out of work so long that I think that my cat is jealous of my life.
– Ed Zillmer
Because of the severe drought of 2012, what the first freeze came, all the lakes and ponds had dry ice in them.
– Ed Gillmore
2011
The other day, I attended my first baseball game. All through the game, I kept hearing a dog barking. Finally, toward the end of the game, I asked the person next to me what was with the dog barking. He told me, “The home plate umpire’s sight is so bad he has his dog help him. One bark is a strike, two barks is a ball, one quick howl is an out and a long howl means the runner is safe at home.”
– Dennis “Shrub” Busch
I have an unwanted collection of chairs. It seems that every time I visit a doctor’s office the receptionist asks me to please take a chair. So I do.
– Frank Seurer
2010
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
Ellen Everts
My neighbor’s scarecrow was so good that the crows brought back the corn they stole last year.
Daryl Lockwood
2009
When I was young, I had a very good chance to make it to the Major League in baseball. I had a strong arm, blazing speed, and hit the ball well. After being watched by the scouts, it was my blazing speed that did me in. Being a left-handed batter and hitting line drives between first and second base, the ball would hit me as I was running to second base. I would then be called out for interference.
– Jerome N. Olson
I am an air traffic controller. I have the same name as my dad. He won the Burlington Liars Club Championship last year. Big trouble: The pilots won’t believe me. Now it takes two to land a plane. I give the pilots my instructions. A second controller tells them I’m telling the truth.
– Garth Seehawer
This year the ticks are so bad, that the other day I opened my wallet to show someone a picture of my dog, and there was a tick on the photo!
– Bob Rosera
God came to me in my sleep one night and shouted out the 10 Commandements. When he got to “Thou shalt not tell a lie”; he reminded me that I am a member of the Burlington Liars Club.
– Joe Schroeder
2008
On a recent flight from New York to LA, we were watching the in-flight movie called “Cocoon.” It was during a pool scene that we encountered some very violent turbulence. It was so rough that the water in the pool in the movie splashed out onto the passengers and an onboard life raft inflated! The flight crew had to hand out towels to dry us all off!
– Jim Kubath
When my uncle wakes up in the morning he often yawns and says, “I could stretch a mile.” Of course, he never does since he’s too lazy to walk back.
– Ellen Everts
It used to be in the winter when I walked into my house my glasses would fog up. But now, at the cost of fuel, I have my temperature down so low that when I go outside my glasses fog up.
– Jerry Olson
I knew I had to lose weight when both the automatic in and out doors opened when I entered the grocery store.
–Michael E. Peters
I have three German shepherds, outside dogs. This morning, it was SO cold outside that one of my dogs were trying to “jump start” the other!
– Richard Bosanko
This summer with gas at $4.25 per gallon, I drove up to a prepay gas station and asked the lady clerk for $5 worth of gas. She farted and handed me a receipt!
– Gene C. Lasch
2007
I had so many divots this past summer, the government named three golf courses federal disaster areas.
– Mardy Nersesian
A full moon and a hot summer night prompted me to take my boat out on the Fox River to go catfishing. Bam! A hit right away. I could hardly hold onto my pole, he took the line out, pulling me and my boat behind him. He then circled my boat, spinning it around and around. Snap! He went under my boat, breaking the line, but not before I got a glimpse of a 60-pound catfish with so many lures attached to him, that I could hear him clanging through the water, as he swam away.
– Dusty Thew
I’m so lonely I drive down one-way streets the wrong way, just to get someone to wave to me.
– David Laing
My cooking is a problem with my new stove. I cannot double my recipes, my oven will not go up to 700 degrees F.
– Tom Balza
At the Packers spring minicamp this year, two backup quarterbacks were playing catch using a clock instead of a football. “When a coach asked them what they were doing, one replied, “Well, with Favre around, we were just passing time.”
– Dave Moscinski
2006
He made the grandkids a telephone of two tin cans and a string. They thought it was great at first, but they threw it away after the 10th or 11th telemarketing call.
– Garth Seehawer
There were so many political yard signs up during the last election, he accidentally voted for Shorewest Realtors.
– Thomas Binder
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. But if you grab it by its ears and hold its snout in the bucket long enough, it will either drink or learn to breath through its eyes.
– Rick Schaaf
The winter in northern Wisconsin was so severe last year that I was able to sublet the basement of my ice fishing shanty.
Bruce Zonow
Her friend is so cheap that when she wakes up in the morning, she looks under the bed to see if she lost any sleep.
– Ellen Everts
My wife had so many magnets attached to the refrigerator during the winter months, causing it to run backwards. We now use it for a heating appliance.
– Jim Blazek
2005
Six months ago, due to a broken taillight, I got picked up for speeding. I was going the speed limit, so when I saw red lights go on behind me I sped up. I got up to 75, 80, 85 and then 90 miles per hour. Finally I pulled over. By now the police officer was pretty mad! He said, “What is your problem? I was just trying to stop you for a broken taillight.” I explained to him that two weeks ago my wife ran away with a police officer and when I saw the red lights flashing behind me, I thought he was trying to return her.”
– DeLyle Olson
Not to say the price of gasoline is high out here (Palm Springs), but each gas station has its own loan officer.
– Jim Kubath
My closet is so damp that my wooden shoe trees are sprouting branches.
– R.M. Eimermann
My neighbor eats fish three times a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. In fact, he eats so many fish that each spring he gets the urge to swim upstream and spawn.
– Gene Lasch
A fellow had a mind so narrow that all his thoughts went through sideways.
– “Wild Bill” Taylor
I work with an old carpenter who has a folding rule which has all the markings and numbers worn off. He still uses the rule and explains that his memory is so good that he knows where all the marks and numbers are.
– Jim Stark
2004
A little old man was driving down the freeway when his cell phone rang. It was his wife. “Dear,” she said, “I just heard on the radio that a car is going the wrong way on your highway, so please be careful.” The man replied, “It’s not just one car, there are hundreds of them!”
– Maxine Christianson
My new dehumidifier is so powerful it sucked all of the water out of the washing machine and the laundry came out dry-cleaned.
– Bob Kools
The roots of an old oak tree grew so deep that instead of dropping acorns, the tree now drops fortune cookies.
– Millie Shallock
My girlfriend demonstrated an anti-wrinkle cream that worked so well it eliminated her fingerprints.
– Bill Koranda
2003
Spring was so late this year that the June bugs didn’t arrive until the middle of August.
– John Hilgers
A Norwegian in Wisconsin has a brother in North Dakota who passed away. He made arrangements with another brother to take care of the burial and to send him bills for half the expenses. Shortly thereafter he got a bill for $200, so he sent $100, which he concluded was his share. A week later he got a bill for $22.50, the next week another bill for $22.50 and the same thing the next week. He wrote his brother wondering about the bills. “Vell,” says the brother, “you know our brother never had a suit to be buried in; I rented him a tuxedo.”
– Maxine Christensen
When I was a child, my family was so poor that burglars would break into our house and leave things.
– Dennis Miller
I planted cut-worms with my pumpkin seeds. The results: At harvest time there were hollowed out pumpkins with carved faces – perfect for Jack-o-lanterns.
– Art LaCour
Everyone was wondering when winter would finally arrive. Even the geese were flying in question mark formations.
– Wendy Rosenow
2002
A local deli has been in business for 40 years. It has sold one million pastrami sandwiches, but just last week they had to purchase another pound of meat. They slice it so thin, the meat has only one side.
– Jim Kubath
I like to obey traffic laws, I stay one car length back from the car in front of me for every 10 mph I am traveling, but the plan has backfired. When I tried to drive the 20 miles north to Milwaukee, so many cars cut in front of me, pushing me back another car length, that I ended up far to the south in Chicago, so I took the train home.
– Tom Tommerup
I have an enthusiastic ice-fisherman friend. When he goes to the Florida Keys for the winter, he takes several freezers to make ice rings so he can fish through the ice all winter.
– Everett Squire
A factory worker named Otto likes to joke about his wooden left leg. When anyone bumps his leg, he says “Ouch.” Otto’s left foot was once pierced by a nail sticking out of a board. He jumped around and said he would now have to get a tetanus shot. Otto said, “Sure, the leg is wood, but the foot is real.”
– Kevin Graham
My neighbor’s over-fertilized grass grew out of control. Once while mowing his lawn, he had to leave suddenly. He shut off the mower and left it in the yard. When he returned, the speedy grass had covered the mower. Luckily it was an electric mower and he could follow the cord from the outlet and find it.
– Ed Malcheski
A man bought a compact car to fight skyrocketing gasoline prices. In fact, the little car is so good on gas that every now and then he has to take some out.
– Steve Eron
A beekeeper in town can produce more honey than any other beekeeper. When asked how, the beekeeper said he crosses honey bees with lightning bugs so they can work at night.
– Kenneth Hunter
I live on a farm that has one field on a very steep hill. My father built a wagon that has wheels two feet higher on one side so the wagon will stay level. It works fine, but it was a nuisance to have to change the wheels around when you want to go the other way.
– R. Turrell
1999
In Las Vegas, some businesses consider casino chips as legal tender, and some do not. Waitresses take them as tips, taxi drivers accept them as cash, and some churches receive them in collection plates.
The problem is there are more than 80 casinos in Las Vegas, and most use their own logo on them. What does a church do when it gets all those different chips? Walk to each casino and cash in $5 here and $1 there?
The churches worked out a solution to this dilemma by getting a monk who lives on a nearby mountain to collect the chips from the various churches every Monday. The monk then takes the chips to the casinos, makes the exchanges and returns the cash to the churches.
As a reporter, I though the monk would be an interesting subject for an interview, but I couldn’t track him down. The churches said he was only know as the Chip Monk.
– Joe Schoenman
My children purchased a sundial for me on Father’s Day. This was a very useful gift as I spend a lot of time outside.
The only problem was that as days grow shorter, I had to use a flashlight to check the sundial to see if it was time to go to bed. As I am on a fixed income, it was not long before I could no longer afford flashlight batteries.
My wife suggested we move the sundial out to the corner, under the street light. This was fine until it got so cold I could not run outside in my pajamas to see if it was bedtime. My wife again came to the rescue by giving me a pair of binoculars for Christmas.
Now I can stand in the bedroom window and check the sundial to see if it is time to go to bed.
– Charles Gehring
After buying artificial Christmas trees for seven seasons, I asked my wife why we bought a new one each year. She promptly told me that when Christmas was over, she put the tree out for curbside pickup just like the neighbors did.
– Ronald Schroeder
I have been working so hard at retirement that I might have to hire someone to help me.
– Jerry Nelson
I gave my mother a clock that runs backwards. That was six years ago. Yesterday Social Security cut her off. She’s no longer old enough.
– Garth Seehauer
My granddaughter stopped by while I was cooking chili and tried some. When she said it was too hot I told her,
“You should have been here the last time I cooked chili.
It was so hot it took two days to freeze the leftovers.”
– Dick Lehto
1998
It was so windy this past November that I had to lie logs to our fireplace grate to keep them from getting sucked up the chimney.
– Mike Linstroth
I live so far up north I have to look south to see the northern lights.
– John E. Anderson
Fishing in my favorite spot, I had a tremendous strike on my first cast. After a long battle I had the fish under control and near the boat when another giant muskie grabbed my fish. When I netted my fish, it had been cut in half. I weighed it – 37 pounds, measured it – 27 inches, five inches short of the legal length, so I had to throw it back.
– Bob Konopacky
Driving home on the Indiana Turnpike, I ran into a terrific windstorm with lightening and a driving rain. Suddenly I encountered a blizzard which dropped visibility to nearly zero. When the storm ended there was more trouble, there were no markings on the highway. The terrific wind had stripped the white and yellow lines off the roadway and shredded them into small particles, resulting in the blizzard conditions.
– Arnold Moelk
Everything is so laid back and slow moving in my hometown that turtles crossing the road have to dodge around the cars.
– Gene E. Bendix
Our weeping willow tree is so large that our insurance agent required us to carry flood insurance.
– Debbie Simon
1997
Some years ago, my father told me there was a year of drought where it did not rain. He planted potatoes which didn’t hardly grow with no rain, so he planted a row of onions between each row of potatoes. When the scent of the onions got in the eyes of the potatoes, it made their eyes water. He said he had a bumper crop of potatoes and onions. Other people wonder how he did it.
– Donald B. Streich
When I was a youngster, we had an old pair of 10-pound dumbbells around the house. At the close of one school year, I decided that I was going to build up my body. All day long, I moved those dumbbells up and down, front and back, to the side, and every way I could think of. By September, I had built up some pretty good muscle. However, the dumbbells looked a little limp and tired. So I weighed them and found that they each weighed only 8 pounds.
– John Peter Wolter
After my retirement from the Burlington Police Department, I thought I would get away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, so I moved out to the boondocks. Now I live so far out in the sticks that I have to flip the light switch on 15 minutes before I want to bulb to light. It takes that long for the power to get here.
– Jim Kubath
I finally stopped smoking when both of the smoke detectors in my house stopped beeping and started to cough.
– Roman L. Grueter
My wife is awful about losing or misplacing her keys. During spring cleaning last year, she misplaced eight keys from her piano.
– William Carr
I sent my dog to obedience school and I guess it was a success, because now it says grace before it bites.
– Ericka Carr, age 10
In April of 1996, my wife and I bought a new car with all the “bells and whistles.” It has been great for us and we have enjoyed all those fine, new features. The one which we probably enjoyed the very most was the remote gadget on the key chain for unlocking the car before we even arrived at the car – until this year. In March of 1997, the winds in this northeastern part of Illinois were so strong that I had to stand on the upwind side of the car to use the remote to unlock the doors.
– Elden Madden
1996
I work for a life insurance company that pays claims so fast that last week a tenant fell off the 17th floor of our building and the claims department on the 4th floor handed him his check out the window as he passed by
– Patrick Braun
A few years ago in this farming community, we had a bad drought and had no water in our reservoir. It looked like our crops would burn up, but our forefathers had planted the whole side hill with weeping willow trees. We went to town and bought all the tear gas we could find, came home and sprayed those trees. Their tears ran down the side hill and filled our reservoir. Not only did our crops get a drink, but the soil was fertilized so well that you could stand still for five minutes on a clear day and your shadow would grow a foot long.
– Verdun Fonnesbeck
My 3-year-old son, Dylan, has a frightening tendency to run away at the mall and disappear among the shoppers. A friend recommended a child safety leash as a remedy, and I’ve kept him tethered to me, wrist-to-wrist. Last month, at a crowded pet show, the precaution paid off handsomely. The judges awarded Dylan a $500 prize as the breed most resembling its master.
– Tom Stoeger
I am always reminding my grandchildren that when I was a teenager, we had kerosene guitars.
– Lowell Wolfe
1995
My grandfather was considered to be the best fisherman ever – that is, until they found out what he was doing! His secret was simple. In the evening, he would go out for a ride in the boat, just to look things over. While he was out there, he would throw a pound of finely chopped liver into the water. Then the next morning, when he went out to fish, the fish had so much iron in their blood, he would catch them with a magnet
– Bill Carr
My wife saved so much money shopping at sales that we were able to quit our jobs and live off the money she saved.
– Kenneth J. Pier
Many years ago, I had the only air station in this area to fill SCUBA tanks for the new sport of SCUBA diving. The sales of air were so great that I had my compressor in the garage pumping 24 hours a day. I was constantly building more and more shelves, until the whole garage was full of shelves, just to store the air needed to supply the compressor to fill the diving tanks.
– Chuck Stanley
Before we visited our daughter and her husband who work and live on Adak in the Aleutian Islands 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage, they warned us about the long rainstorms with extremely high and steady winds. It began to rain the day after we arrived, and the wind blew the rain so horizontal, it took over five hours for the ground to get wet.
– Al Greffenius
It was Sunday, the last day of deer season, and the fog was starting to set in. I fired at a large buck, but the fog was so thick, the bullet didn’t get there to hit the deer ’til Monday. I got the large buck okay but was arrested for shooting in closed season. It was easy for the warden to determine it was a fresh kill. It seems the warden followed the bullet hole in the fog to my cabin and hunting area.
– John Carey
Just so you know, it is so hot today that they are catching fried fish at Lake Michigan.
– Richard Stenson
The endless mountains region of northwest Pennsylvania is noted for its high hills and deep narrow valleys. The electric power transmission lines are often stretched from the top of one hill to the top of the next. As a boy in the 1930s, we lived in one of these deep valleys. When the first electrical lines were put in, a branch line was run from the mainline down to our farm. The hill and the line were so steep that the voltage gained so much speed that it kept blowing out the light bulbs.
– Richard Turrell
Four additional honorable mentions were awarded to pupils in room 202 at Cooper Elementary School in Burlington, who submitted lies as part of a classroom project.
There was a man that walked into a hardware store one day. He asked for nails. The clerk said, “How long would you like them?” He replied, “Well, I was hoping to keep them.”
– Ryan Koch
My family is so poor, we go to Kentucky Fried Chicken just to lick the peoples’ fingers.
– Eric Sutkay
My dad is the local undertaker. Sometimes it is so quiet at work he has to pinch himself to make sure the people aren’t coming to visit him.
– Joel Daniels
There was a guy so stupid that when he went to the movies and the sign said “Under 17 not admitted,” he went out and got 16 of his friends.
– Jeff Cecelia
1990
It rained so much in Texas one year that the river got so high you could see under it.
– Robert W. Hargrave
I planted some highly advertised fast-growing sweet corn. It grew so fast I thought it would shade the garden and lawn so I decided to chop it down. But, it grew so fast I couldn’t hit it twice in the same place with my ax.
– Harold Quinn
One baseball team was so bad that ever time a game was rained out they threw victory parties.
– Aaron Butler, boy scout
A fellow clergy friend was visiting me one day and we got into a discussion concerning the fertility of the soil. No matter how much I boasted that my garden soil was superior to his, he refused to believe me. I told him there was but one way to prove my claim, and that was to have him simply stand in my garden for a few minutes without moving. My friend obliged me, but could see no useful purpose to my request until he tried to move. He couldn’t take so much as a single step and immediately stepped out of his shoes. “You see,” I said. “You stand there long enough and you root!” I rested my case and won the argument.
– Pastor Paul C. Ferenczy
1989
In Florida, we had a hurricane last year with the winds so bad it blew the bark off the trees and out of the dogs.
– Steven West, age 10
My friend’s mother is so dumb that she threw out her freezer because she was sick of cutting the ice into little cubes to fit in the tray.
– Ashley Webb
We have a rooster down here that is so lazy that he just nods his head when the other roosters crow.
– Merton Springs
The winter wheat crop out west was so short in height due to the weather, the only way the farmers could cut it was to lather it up first.
– Harold Quinn
A small town in northern Wisconsin purchased a new fire engine and the town council was debating the subject of what to do with the old fire engine. The mayor finally settled the argument when he decided that we would keep it in stand-by and use it only for false alarms.
– John Bartley
After the Department of Natural Resources lowered the water on Lake Koshkonong, the local water patrol started to issue citations to boaters because they were stirring up dust.
– Tom Sherman
In our county, we had a curving five-mile road that went four miles as the crow flies. One day, two farmers hitched their tractors to the ends of that road and pulled that sucker straight. The leftover mile we cut and sold for driveways.
– Rovewrt Swearinger
It was so windy in Seymour, we had to rename our dog. Spot went outside. Now we call him Whitey.
– Bill Koranda
1988
My wife has such cold feet that when she takes off her shoes the furnace goes on and when she gets under the electric blanket, the steet lights go dim.
– Steve Dutch
During the severe drought in the summer of 1988, whenever I cleaned bluegills I held them under water when I scaled them to keep the dust out of my eyes.
– Lowell Wolfe
I was kicked off the Olympic Prevaricating team because I lied about my qualifications.
– David B. Watts
Last summer my wife spent so much money inthe shops of Woodstock, NY, that they have renamed the town Out-of-Stock.
– Sheree Bykofsky
It was so dry in Kansas last summer that there are bullfrogs which were born last spring that have not learned how to swim yet.
– Robert H. Johnston
In 1988 they passed a federal law outlawing the standard transmissions on all cars in the USA because the government doesn’t want people shifting for themselves.
– Frederick J. Rathmann
1987
Some years ago, I was given a phonograph record as a gift. I found the music on one side so enjoyable that I kept playing that side for hours on end until the record became so thin I could hear both sides at the same time.
– Ed Boyajian
We have a motel in our town that is very small. In fact, there is a sign on the shower stall which reads – please take a hot shower OR a cold shower – there is not enough room in this shower stall to mix both temperatures.
– Duward A. Peterson
I have a needle that I can’t thread because every time I try to thread it, the needle keeps blinking its eye.
– Joseph F. Brozik
The road crews in Minneapolis put so much salt on the winter streets that the city council is considering an ordinance requiring motorists to wash their cars at least once a month during the snow season. It seems that some drivers who thought they were driving their cars were in fact driving ice chunks. Apparently the salt had completely corroded their vehicles away leaving only a shell of grimy ice. The problem was discovered when some cars entering a carwash failed to appear at the other end. Another reason for the law is to prevent salty cars from attracting deer in from the suburbs where they snarl traffic and leave unsightly lick marks on the cars.
– John H. Thornberg
We raise a lot of sweet corn in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and our sweet corn is so sweet that when we eat it, we don’t put butter on it, we put vinegar on it.
– William Musack
We planted straight corn rows here this spring but by the time the corn got six inches high the rows were all crooked. It got so hot here this spring they were warped by the heat.
– Wayne Porter
For the last several years, my wife and I have vacationed in Door County, Wisconsin. Although my wife does not fish, she does enjoy keeping a record of my successes by marking the catch on the calendar, noting the number of fish and the total weight for each day. This year, the fishing was especially good. In fact, before our two-week vacation ended, that calendar got so heavy it pulled the nail right out of the wall.
– Elden Madden
I’ve been growing super sweet corn in the back yard for years, but last summer the raccoons were feasting on the ears as soon as they’d ripen! To discourage this sort of thing, I was told to place some bright lights in the field at night as set out a radio tuned to some all-night news station. I did this, and you can imagine my surprise when I sneaked down there at 2 A.M. that same night. I saw this whole family of raccoons wearing sunglasses, chomping on my sweet corn and believe this, they turned that radio dial to country music and were doing a square dance!!!
– Roman L. Grueter
While working on my garden, I saw two grass snakes get into a fight. They grabbed each other by the tail and started eating. I watched them and they kept getting shorted and shorter. RIght before my eyes, they both disappeared. That are each other up!.
– Harold Quinn
Driving near Glidden last winter, I turned off the show my passenger the world record black bear which is displayed there. The case was empty! A local passerby offered an explanation, “It was so durn cold here last week even that stuffed bear went into hibernation.”
– Tom Kane
The town I vacation at in northern Wisconsin is so small it has only two digits in it’s zip code.
– Earl R. Strandt
1986
It was so dry in the southeast this summer that we had to attach the postage stamps to the envelopes with safety pins.
– Robert H. Johnston
It was SO COLD in Kenosha last December, my wife and I were sitting in our living room one evening just reading, without the radio or TV on, when we heard a loud “POP” outside our front door. I went to see that it was and it was very dark outside, and I know I had left the porch light on. When I opened the door and looked down I could see several pieces of glass laying on the porch floor. I knelt down for a closer look and I could see a whole bunch of bright shiny specks amongst the shattered glass, so I started to count them. Sure enough there were sixty of them. All sixty watts from that bursted light bulb – FROZEN ALIVE.
– Jack D. Sorensen
My sister painted a bowl of apples that looked so real that the picture frame she used got worm holes in it.
– Mary Marie Weatherly
The other day I went squirrel hunting and came upon this dead, limbless tree. Noticing a hole near the top and a hold further down the tree, I figured it would be a good place to shoot a squirrel. After a short time a squirrel stuck his head out the top hole. I immediately fired, but missed. That squirrel was just too fast. He disappeared only to stick his head out the bottom hole. I fired again, missed again as that squirrel disappeared again only to stick his head out the top hole again. I kept firing and missing. That squirrel kept running up and down the inside of the tree truck so fast, it wasn’t long before he was sticking his head out both holes at the same time.
– Vernon W. Kennedy
I raised some hot peppers this year that were so hot when we tried to freeze them for the winter, they defrosted the freezer.
– Robert Baudison
Any little noise bothers my wife when she goes to sleep, so I wrap cotton wool round the gold fish’s fins to keep them quiet while they swim around in the bowl.
– Roy Chapple
It rained so hard yesterday, water was backed up against my barbwire fence.
– James Belch
There’s a lake I fish in northern Wisconsin that is so small that all the fish caught are curved.
– Earl R. Strandt
1981
Once upon a time I planted a field of wheat with a horse-drawn planter. The seed was so potent I had to drive the horses at a gallop so the seed would be in the ground before it sprouted.
– Paul Gaiser
People are always in awe of my ability to grow huge potatoes and in such great quantity, and ask of me my secret to which I reply, “Well, you see the trick to growing spuds is lots of water. And what I do is plant onions between the hills of spuds. You see the onions cause the eyes of the potatoes to water, which in turn keeps the potato plants water continually.”
– Don W. Carey II
One day Pa and I, went up to the mountains to cut us a grindstone. We got it all cut out and a hole in the middle to put a pole through when one of my brothers came to fetch us as something had happened at home and we were needed at once. We left the grindstone and returned home. A few years later, we decided to go back up there to see if our grindstone was still there. Of course, it was gone. Then we noticed a notch cut between the mountains. Then we heard something going swish, swish, so we looked down in this notch. The stone had made this notch rolling up one side and down the other until it was wore away leaving only the hole, which was going swish, swish, swish, swish.
– Kelly P. R. Bennett
My neighbor and I decided to nail large wooden shingles on his house roof one morning, even though the weather report wasn’t too promising. Well, we got all the gear and the ladders rigged up and opened a small barrel of long nails, climbed up on the the roof and went to work. We were at it most of the morning and stayed with the job, even though a heavy fog swept in from the southeast. Staying on the job during that heavy fog, caused us to nail several rows of shingles together six feet beyond the peak of the roof before we realized how far we had actually gone.
– William A. Carpenter
I have a home on a very small lake thirty miles north of Madison. Fishing is so terrific that every cast made brings two fish in on a single hook. To prove just how many fish this lake holds, nearly half of them are forced to come up on the banks to sleep at night.
– H. L. Dunse
Back in the sixties, I spent a few years in the U.S. Navy. Now I’m not going to say we drank a lot of coffee, but, one time we were anchored off the coast of San Francisco for a four-day period. They had to hire FOUR TUG BOATS just to pull us off the coffee grounds.
– Jim Kubath
Two summers ago, when I started painting, I painted the picture of a fire glowing in a fireplace and hung it in our living room. The fire was so real that it gave off heat. During the winter, we noticed the room felt considerably warmer than the other rooms in the house. We also noticed that our fuel bills were much lower than usual. The next year, I painted similar pictures and hung one in each room of our home. The entire house remained so comfortable through the winter that we no longer had to pay fuel bills.
– James C. Hetzel, O.D.
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