Of terrapins 'n turtles......

 
 Back where I grew up in the hills of eastern Kentucky, they had what they called ‘Tarpons’.....which is kind of a slangy way of pronouncing ‘Terrapins’ and that is a land turtle...more or less...eastern Kentucky has lots of turtles, they got snapping turtles like you wudn’t believe.....that is, unless and until you got bit by one of ‘em...but terrapins ain’t like that....they’re big ‘n they’re slow ‘n kid’s ‘ud play with ‘em but mostly nobody bothered with them too much. I s’pose y’cud eat ‘em if you wuz hungry enuff but I never knew anybody who did....
Anyhow, I ran across this story t’other day ‘n tho’t I’d pass it on.......
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year 
  old Texas rancher, whose hand was 
caught in a gate while working 
  cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with 
the old 
  man. 
Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our 
  President. 
The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post 
  turtle'.' 
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him 
  what a 'post turtle' was. 
The old rancher said, 'When you're 
  driving down a country road and you come 
across a fence post with a 
  turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.' 
The old rancher 
  saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued 
  to 
explain. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't 
  belong up 
there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, 
  and you just wonder what 
kind of a dumb ass put him up there in the 
  first place?" 
I suspect, to balance things out, I should tell a funny story about McCain but my Momma always told me never poke fun at old folks ‘cuz one of these days, if I wuz lucky enuff, I might just get to be one myownself......
Justin Other Smith