The Lunchtime Artist

If your wondering what goes through the head of a Groovy Boomer from time-to-time, take a look at our collection of lunchtime napkin doodling,  They may not all be funny, but some may make you laugh or reflect.  Check out our library of drawings.   More to follow, so tune back in... 

Fore   I was thinking about the game of golf over my Cobb salad the other day, wondering if golf was funny. I came to the conclusion, that bad golf is indeed funny. To play non-funny good golf, you need to be positive and loose in your attitude. I think that golf is a hoot. It’s a sport where, to make the ball go up, you hit down on it.  When you find the courses you play on are too easy, or don't have enough roughs, or that the holes are too darn short, and, when facing putting greens that are way too easy, focus on your journey, enjoy the game, and forget about the destination.  Over a 3rd iced tea, my friends and I talked about Tiger Woods and golfers like Michelle Wie. My buddy said that Tiger went pro at 20 and now has about 10 years of golf earnings. It is pretty amazing to think that Tiger won his first Amateurs at age 16. By the time the check arrived, we closed out our conversation about golfers being a giving sort. Recently, in a nine-month period, Michelle gave $850,000 to charity. Not funny, but it made me smile.  Hop on over to my infomaker link to discover golf swing secrets revealed and improve your game.

"There was this guy..." Not much good to eat for lunch today. I'm back on a low-carb diet so it’s hard to decide what to have. My buddy just got done telling us one of his more humorous stories. Vince, more commonly know as, "Vincenzo De'Laqua", is a real comedian. His success is in his delivery,.  It's the way he tells his stories. Since I believe that humor is a powerful and emotional medicine, I take it all the time. One dose of Vince and I'm good for the day. Laughing helps me lower stress and dissolve anger. But, it is indeed more than a laughing matter, because it uncovers shared emotions. Being at one with others. I asked Vince how he does it. What's his trick? How come he's so funny. Here's what he told me: Always laugh first, before you start telling your story. Avoid things like..."there was this guy", or, "I got this joke I want to tell". According to Vince, this is for amateurs. He believes that you want to give the listener's body a good workout. Vince says that humor should be used carefully and not when the listener is in a lot of pain. Say, after major surgery. Wow! I think I got it. You need to make something funny. That is humor. Being able to recognize something funny, well, that is a sense of humor. Oh yea. Vince advises not to laugh so hard at your own joke that you forget the punch line. Hop on over to my infomaker link and Learn to be funny

What a Pair

We always eat our lunch at the bar in our favorite restaurant. It is the best spot for a good view of the front door and customers entering to wait for the hostess to seat them. All kind of characters pass through the vestibule, including us. Occasionally, and amongst ourselves, we make some uncalled for comment, especially, if we see something that tickles our fancy.

Watching the restaurant customers took me back a few years to sitting in my grandfathers ‘51 Plymouth in the supermarket parking lot while my grandmother shopped inside. I liked that car. It had a huge back seat that I could bounce around in. I guess I was about 7 years old. Just old enough for my grandfather to ask me all kind of mind- bending questions. Like, what did the supermarket’s name, A&P, stand for? Or, what kind of shirt did the man have on who had passed by the car 5 minutes earlier, and who was now long since out of my scope of vision. Oh, and the killer, name the capitols of the 48 states. On these shopping center parking lot excursions, more often than not, "Pops" would let out a, "Well, lookie here, there go Frick and Frack." I was a little puzzled by his remark since he said it on numerous trips, but the people, always in pairs, were never the same. I never asked him why he said it and my curiosity remained for quite some time.

Years later, when I’d see two of my friends or a pair of co-workers together, I’d say. "Look, here come Frick and Frack. Sometimes I meant it as endearing, and at other times, not so complimentary.

Just exactly who was this duo, "Frick and Frack"? Did they even exist? If they did, I am certain they have long since passed away. So for those of you out there that share my curiosity, here you go. Frick and Frack were, respectively, Werner Groebli and Hans Mauch, Swiss skaters who paired up for a long-running comedy act in the Ice Follies. Their claim to fame was novelty maneuvers that made their names a household word. Frick and Frack were known for skating in Alpine Lederhosen and performing eccentric tricks on ice, including the "cantilever spread-eagle," created by Groebli. His twisting and bending his legs while skating in a spread eagle position created Mauch’s "rubber legs" act.

"Frick and Frack" become an English slang term used to refer to two people so closely associated as to be indistinguishable. If you and a friend desire to improve your ice-skating ability then hop on over to:

Ice-Skating Secrets.  Who knows, you just might be the next "Frick & Frack."