thingish things

A joke from Uncle Billy...

"Well, sir, this preacher didn't want to tell 'is wife he was speakin' to the Rotary on th' evils of adultery. She was mighty prim, don't you know, so he told her he was goin' to talk about boating.

"Well, sir, a little later, 'is wife ran into a Rotarian who said her husband had given a mighty fine speech.

"'That's amazin',' she said, 'since he's only done it twice. Th' first time he th'owed up and th' second time 'is hat blowed off.'"

from A Light in the Window by Jan Karon