Here are some examples:
- Artists - Weird
- Floridians - Old
- Musicians - Irresponsible
- Car Repair People - Crooks
- Psychiatrists - Nuts
- Baptists - Narrow minded
- Women - Bad drivers
- Men - Messy
- Tall People - Basketball players
- Writers - Poor
- Southerners - Dumb
Yesterday I had lunch, as you know, at the catfish place, with a couple I've known for about 40 years. She's graceful, smart, beautiful and sings like a Nightingale - but this isn't about her.
Her husband looks like a farmer. I've - more than once -seen him in bib overalls. He's kind of old now so he's a little bent over - but actually he's always looked pretty much that way.
He's from the south so he has that slow southern cracker accent. If you met him you might think "It's Jeeter Lester from Tobacco Road."
But you would be very, very wrong.
He's a theologian and a scholar. He's open minded and easy to talk with about anything.
And still learning.
In fact, he's so smart that he says this a lot: I don't know.
Even though, as a minister, he reached one of the top rungs in his denomination, now, in retirement, he's pastoring a little country church.
I'm sure they think that he's one of them - and they're right. But he's so much more.
If you should challenge him to a game of wit (the power to perceive and express ideas that are unusual, striking, brilliant and amusing) you would lose.
So would I.
