Southpaw Jones

Moses climbed the climbing rock
Got shoes up at the climbing store
The clerk, he searched the climbing stock
And asked, “What’s all the climbing for?”

“To satisfy your soul’s behoove-ment?
Simply for the self-improvement?
Peace and societal remove-ment?
Because you need to feel the groove-ment?”

Moses told the climbing clerk:
“I don’t climb for climbing kicks.
Don’t think me now a climbing jerk;
I do it for the climbing chicks.”

as reported in The New York Times

May 19, 1908
RUSH THE STRAW HAT SEASON.
Many Men Wear Them and the June 15 Tradition Is Shattered.
Throwing conventions to the four winds, New Yorkers yesterday took advantage of the Summer day and appeared in straw hats. The tradition that straw hats shall not be worn before June 15 was ignored by many courageous citizens, and in the hotels straws and Panamas were shown so frequently that they ceased to attract attention.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I can see right through that contemptuous, curled upper lip of yours. No seriously, I think your face is fading away! You clearly have a…

Highlight here for answer: [sheer sneer]


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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
http://www.flipnotics.com
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theater
AUSTIN, TX
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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
9:00 PM
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant St. 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
Doors open at 8:00pm