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Started by Tom, January 22, 2005, 10:56:26 AM

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Tom

One of my most favorite story tellers is Jerry Clower.  Jerry was a Mississippi native who told down-home stories about the exploits of his friends, the Ledbetters.   Sometimes Jerry was involved and sometimes he was just an on-looker.  But, the stories always send me laughing to the edge of tears.

We have a member who, even though he doesn't know it, entertains me immensely just by showing up.  Why?  Because in his signature at the bottom of his posts he has written his name, Marcel.   Marcel was Jerry Clower's "most close-essts friend".  Marcel was the butt of many of Jerry's jokes, the subject of many of his stories and, like my childhood friend, Ugly Eddy, you couldn't help but like him..  

 Every time I see this fellow signed on, I think of Jerry's stories about "the wreck of the cattle truck" and "the trip to New York"  where, in the dead of winter, the hotel room was miserably hot and the bathroom light had no switch.

I'm always amazed at how easily I am entertained.  I don't need a joke, just a trigger to get my mind started on links back in my memory until one sticks so solidly in front of my eyes that I can't ignore it.  I can sit here at the computer and laugh so hard that my wife will stick her head in the door and ask "wha's so funny?"  

"Marcel just logged on", I'll say, and she will go on back to the kitchen with a terribly confused look on her face. :D :D

J_T

Tom I noticed Marcel too but weren't going to say anything ::) How about the Dutchman Always think about that lost mine .You know ck is from Jerry's part of the world and pretty entertaining too :D :D
Jim Holloway

Tom

Did you know that was your six hundred and sixty-sixth post?  :D

I know about CK and find his stories interesting and entertaining.  I guess I was intimating that a story isn't always necessary.  Sometimes a person can entertain himself if the right triggers are available. :)  Yep, CK's stories are funny and I've laughed over them a lot.  But here is a fellow that can turn my tickle box upside down just by logging on.  :D :D

isawlogs



  I'm easily entertained too ..... And Tom I'm very happy to know that I can make your day by loggin on ... You mon ami have me going to I got this santa that looks just like you and plays the sax when ever you push his buton and does a little hip dance .... Gets me every time ....
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

J_T

First time I seen Tom with sun shades on 8) 8)
Jim Holloway

isawlogs

 He wanted to stay anonimous....



 I have a lot of fun wit my tom.... hes good with the curved wind machine ....
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

Tom


etat

I KNOW I ought not to say this and I'm sorry but I  can't help it. ::)  The first image that popped in my head when I saw that last photo is that our Tom oughta run fer President. :D  
Old Age and Treachery will outperform Youth and Inexperence. The thing is, getting older is starting to be painful.

J_T

I'd vote for him any day 8)
Jim Holloway

isawlogs

 :) :D :D :D :D :D :D ;D ;)
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

SwampDonkey

He's quite the wind bag, isn't he Marcel?  :D :D ;D
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Tom

A true wind bag would have bagpipes.   I'm just a little wheezer.   ;D

sprucebunny

I think it's an amazing coincidence that Tom and Marcel happen to crack each other up......and they didn't know it till now  :o
What a group ! ! !  :D :D :D
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isawlogs

 I dont know ... you'll keep going if I push your button .... and I can push ones button .... and you just keep on blowing that horn .... and when I think you are tired .. I just afta push you one more time ...... ;) ;D
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

SwampDonkey

"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

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DanG

I gotta admit, I think about Jerry's stories when I see Marcel's signature, too.  I have to remind myself that this ain't no Ledbetter we're dealing with.

To me, Jerry's best Marcel story was "Marcel and the Beer Joint."  It kinda fit's in here, too, cause Marcel Ledbetter was a logger. He knew how to put a "lightweight McCulloch chainsaw" to good use, too. :D :D :D

Marcel, you probably didn't even know of the joy you've been spreading. :) :) ;)
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Curlywoods

Yep I admit teat oo.  Marcel and Jerry Clower will always be though of in the same thoughts :-)  My father loved Jerry Clower :-)  I sent him a  set of cassette tapes with Jerry Clower stories when he was terminally ill.  I still can see the smaile on his face and the chuckle that would follow when Jerry made him laugh.

  Some of my favorites were the time that they managed to go the church of snake worshippers and the night that they wewre coon hunting and Jerry was in the tree with the coon fighting.  Jerry yells down to Marcel to shoot into the tree.  Marcel says he afraid that he will shoot Jerry, but Jerry says either him or than coon needs some relief!!!!  :D :D :D :D :D :D

Thanks for bring this up Tom and Marcel please do not take this wrong.  I smile everytime I see the name too  ;D
All the best,

Michael Mastin
McKinney Hardwood Lumber
McKinney, TX

isawlogs

I'm not one to take things seriously ... Just glad to hear I can crack you guys up ... just by signing in ... Not to many hear can brag about that
  But I would like to know why ....  ??? and who is Jerry Clower and his pal Me ???
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

ScottAR

My favorite was always the one with the big steel aggies Jerry got from his brother Sonny.  

Scott
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J_T

Someone send Marcel a copy of them tapes. 8) ;D
Jim Holloway

ohsoloco

I know there's a tape around the house here somewhere called Clower Power  :D  Found it in one of those discount tape bins at a store.  Just may have to dig that out.  

ellmoe

Back in my younger days :D I I would visit my "kinfolk" in Macclenny, Fla. (Tom , I'm sure you know where this is). Macclenny was/is small town America with one main street. On Friday night the teenage boys would pile in a car, while the girls did the same, and the various groups would cruise up and down the main road, honking and yelling at each other! It was kind of like a dog chasing a car, what's he going to do if he catches one? Well, I was always the youngest, and we never did "catch" any, but there sure was alot of bragging about what would happen if.... One thing I remember well was the mid-point spot between the two "turnarounds". It was the "Midget Burger" restaurant. I guess you could eat inside the MB, but I never saw anyone do so. Instead everyone "hung out" in the parking lot, swapping "what ifs", and "if onlys", till it was time to start cruising again. Anyway, the Midget Burger had a set of loud speakers outside and they played Jerry Clower tapes continuosly. I remember Marcel hollering for "some relief" from that "souped up wildcat", and I also remember the phrase "knock-em out Johnnnn!". For the life of me I can't recall that story. Does anyone have a better memory than I?
     Jerry Clower, that fertilizer salesman from Mississippi, would  say, "I don't tell funny stories,...I tell stories funny." He sure did.
Mark
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DanG

Good storytellers are hard to beat for entertainment. Stories don't have to be funny to be good, but the funny ones are, hands down, the best to listen to.  Jerry Clower is probably the most prominent of the Southern yarn spinners, but several others come to mind. Justin Wilson, the Cajun Cook, has given me many hours of glee. Bill Cosby is another good one. The characters he created with his stories are still popular, and one of the hit movies of this season is about Fat Albert.  Andy Griffith first gained fame with his "What it was was Football" story.  Lesser known, but just as funny, are Wendy Bagwell, and Cotton Ivey.  Bagwell, to me, is the funniest one of all. He was the one that did the story about the rattlesnakes in church. He actually was an evangelist who did revivals at churches all over the South. All of his recordings were made live, in churches.

I haven't tried, but I would think all of these stories would be available for download from the internet.
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

etat

I always liked Roy D Mercers prank phone calls too.  One a my favorites was when he told that car salesman he was a gonna open up a 55 gallon drum of whip ass on him.  The salesman laughed and told him he was gonna be making a mistake and kept trying to convince Roy he actually had absolutely NO recollection of what he was a talking about.. :)

The calls were always set up in advance but the person on the other end of the phone didn't know it until everybody started laughing.

Old Age and Treachery will outperform Youth and Inexperence. The thing is, getting older is starting to be painful.

Curlywoods

Charles,

  Roy D. is a favorite of mine too.  His wife Sharon Jean is always ready to do his dirty work if he has to deal with a woman :-)

  One of favorite lines of his is "just how big of a ole' boy are you anyhow".

Good stuff indeed :-)  We need more people that can make folks laugh :-)
All the best,

Michael Mastin
McKinney Hardwood Lumber
McKinney, TX

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Ed_K

 The Great Coon Hunt! But my favarite hands down is Marcel and The Beer Joint  8). They gave him the beer joint. yrs ago I work at a machine shop with a Marcel, he did the same as Marcel does here. Thanks Marcel.
Ed K

Faron

I am guilty of laughing at Roy D's calls every time no matter how many times I have heard them.  
I have a brother in law who had an idea published in FARM SHOW magazine.  He had simply removed the seat belts from an old car, and used them as inexpensive straps to hold a motorcycle upright in his pickup.  I would LOVE to call him up as a Roy D. Mercer type character, and demand payment because of damage to a refrigerator due to use of those straps.  I bet it would get my brother in law's attention when the character mentions coming by to get his check. :D  I just don't think I could pull it off without laughing.
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DanG

 :D :D :D  My favorite Roy D. call was when he called the house moving company to get prices on moving his neighbor's house into the next county.  "You can't do that!" say's the lady.  "Say, you can't? ???" sez Roy D. :D :D :D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Tom_in_Mo.

Talking about Jerry, one of my favorites is telling about the speaker planted in the outhouse when the lady with the big hat got herself positioned just right and he hollowed out " lady can't you see that I am trying to paint down here!!!!!!!" I can just see those hinges blowing off with the door.  :D

Curlywoods

Thats a good one Tom.....never heard that one before  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
All the best,

Michael Mastin
McKinney Hardwood Lumber
McKinney, TX

isawlogs

  Well today I had a good day ..  8) ... Then it got better  ;D ;D



I git to know whoe is Jerry Clower is .....    :) :)
 
I went to get the mail.....  Now at this time of the year I dont really like going to the mail box ... 
  I open up the door and start pulling out the mail ....  There is a nice big envellope , you know the brown paper bubble interior type envellope .... Pull that out not thinking anything about it , bring the pile in and ask my son ifin he was expecting a package ... Nope ... was all I got for a reply ... Take the envellope and see thats its adderssed to me ....

Welll   I open her up and whats in it
  Two cd's of Jerry Clower

  I just stuffed that first one in the cd player ...and after a few minutes of trying to get her to play ... my son out of frustration of seeing me trying to get it going took the zapper and rolling his eyes and pushed a button and here I am listening to jerry
   Marcel is in trouble
   Where will you be when you get where you're going
......

Well I dont know whom it was that sent these to me .....  YET ....  But I'm listening to it now ... and he is good
   I do want to thank you ...  It has to be one of you that I know ....

DanG   
  I really liked that one where   Marcel is in trouble 

Well thanks again ... Marcel is real happy .....
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

Gilman

According to this site: http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/clower_jerry/artist.jhtml

A clip of Jerry Clower will part of
The Greatest: 20 Funniest Videos on 2/4/05, the CMTV channel

Here on the west coast it will be on @ 4:00 & 7:00 PM, got my replayer set!

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DanG

Marcel, I'm glad somebody sent you some Jerry Clower tapes. :) :)  You're gonna have some real fun with those.  I hope the one where you get the beer joint is on there. ;D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

isawlogs

DanG
I did not have time yet to listen to both but I did listen to one ... And Marcel is in trouble .....He is in a bar ... with a McCollouch Chainsaw .. and is given the bar again .... Got me laughing ....
Now I know what you guy's where laughing for ....



Marcel
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

Paschale

My favorite Marcel story is when Marcel goes fishing...the only one catching anything, so finally the sherriff goes with him to see what he was doing.  Marcel lights up a stick 'o dynamite, and the cop says, "you can't do that!  That's against the law!"  Marcel calmly hands the dynamite to the sherriff, and says to him, "are you gonna just sit there, or FISH?!?!?"

:D

I like Roy D.  "How big a boy are ya anyway?"   :D :D :D
Y'all can pronounce it "puh-SKOLLY"

isawlogs

  I really liked this one
 
Where will you be when you get where you're going

  I still havent had time to listen to the second one yet .....
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

Phorester


My favorite Jerry Clower story was the one where he was asked to do his show in a Church of snake handlers.  The congregation gets so excited they start passing around the serpents.  Jerry, up in front of the church with his group asks one of them where the back door is.  They look and say, "there ain't one".  Jerry says, "reckon where do they want one?"

jtmccallum

Snake handlers was one of my dad,s favorites.  Local radio station played it quite often.  I don,t recall them playing any other stories of his.

I guess I'm going to hafta find me a tape and see what I'm missing.
   
Roy D. Mercer is one of my favorites.....cant drive past a Sonic drive in without thinkin'  'bout Raymond and fingernail fungus :D :D

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DanG

Yeah, I guess I did leave him out.  Missed Grady Nutt, too. :-[
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Slabs

Dail

Go to the Dave Gardner website.  I think they have a country store where you can buy the old party records on CD.  Was there a couple of years ago and read some good biography on Bro.

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tnlogger

now i dont know why but when i was ready the BBQ thread i gots to thinking about boiled okra and that gots me thinking about Jerry and the pot a boiled okra and the hound dogs
so i had to open the media player and listen again  :D :D that was over an hour ago.
Have not stoped laughing yet  :D :D

gene

Tom

It's happened again!   

Here I've finally gotten used to Marcel and his antics, chasing animals around Canada, building houses, welding inventions and trying to go to the North Pole.  I still laugh my self to death beause I can't help but think of Jerry Clower when Marcel makes a post.

Now, I have another dilemma.  There is a new member who wakes up long sleeping brain cells.  It's Vern.  When I see Vern on the forum, I get this big picture of Ernest P. Worrel (Jim Varney) on the other side of a window with his eyes crossed, a grimace on his face and a mouth that stretches from one ear to the other.  The Window has just been slammed on his fingers which he had so absent mindedly left on the window sill.  In the back of my mind is the echo of the phrase that Ernest has probably just said, "YouknowwhatImean Vern?"  :D

I don't know if I can stand another one.  :D :D   I can't help but smile.

tcsmpsi

I've had the good fortune to meet Jerry a couple times and the last time, got him to autograph a cassette tape, that I now keep in the safe.
Bless his Heart. 

I reckon anyone who has heard Clower much, will always relate to Marcel with a bit extra.    ;D   Aye, Marcel, I'm guilty as well.    :D

Pretty fortunate here,as our little FM, non-profit station plays all sorts of things.  Among those are, Mr. Clower, Mr. Mercer, Red Skelton's old radio shows, Mr. Welle's Mercury Theatre, Lone Ranger, etc., as well as music from big bands, to Zepplin, Hendrix, Dean Martin, Cash, Classical (sorry, no RAP).  About any and everything one could imagine.  Including my ad.   ;D
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Tom

I had an idea and went to Youtube to look for Ernest.   There are about 20 clips of him there from outtakes to old advertisements, even some clips from his movies.  I laughed and feel better now.  Funny how laughing makes one feel better, KnowwhatImean, Vern? :D

I even found a couple of Jerry Clower stories.

olyman

tom--a merry heart--doeth good like a medicine-----

Ed_K

 And Marcel opened the screen door with his chainsaw and said "just pass out that grape nehi to me"  ;D.I liked the pulp wood stories  ;) .
Ed K

Tony

   I got Jerry's autograph and had a class with his daughter at MSU back in the day  ;D


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