That's My Story And I'm Sticking To It
JoAnne Schmitz
full text:
One morning the wife asks, "Where were you last night? You never came to bed.
Were you out all night with the boys again?"
Man says, "I came home after you went to sleep. I didn't want to disturb you
when I got home so I slept on the couch in the garage/guestroom/porch."
Woman says, "We got rid of that couch last year."
Man says, "Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it."
I just heard this one attributed as fact to Art Donovan of Baltimore Colts fame.
I have also heard it for years attributed to other people. And I've heard it
told as a joke.
Anyone know of other people it's been attributed to? Any good evidence anyone
really said it?
JoAnne "not my story, though it seems to have stuck to me anyway" Schmitz
---
"You'd be amazed how much catsup it takes to stop a moth from flopping
around on the bun."
- - Grey Wolf, on alt.folklore.urban
Alan Follett
> If you've heard the story, or the joke, you
> recognize the above punch line.
<snip>
> I just heard this one attributed as fact to
> Art Donovan of Baltimore Colts fame. I have
> also heard it for years attributed to other
> people. And I've heard it told as a joke.
> Anyone know of other people it's been
> attributed to? Any good evidence anyone
> really said it?
The phrase has certainly been around for a while; if the hallucinations
aren't starting again, I seem to recall it occurring somewhere in rather
early P.G. Wodehouse -- perhaps one of the Ukridge stories? So, if Art
Donovan really did say this, he was most likely simply quoting a
déracinée punchline, along the lines of "that's all she wrote."
Alan "Paging Charles Bishop!" Follett
age...@io.com
wrote:
>If you've heard the story, or the joke, you recognize the above punch line. The
>full text:
>
>Anyone know of other people it's been attributed to? Any good evidence anyone
>really said it?
Collin Raye had a hit country song with that story a while back -
http://collin-raye.com/themusic/extremes.html#THAT'S MY STORY
THAT'S MY STORY
Lee Roy Parnell, Tony Haselden
I came in as the sun came up
She glared at me over her coffee cup
She said where you been so I thought real hard
I fell asleep in that hammock in the yard
She said you don't know it boy, but you just blew it
I said well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it
CHORUS
That's my story (that's my story) that's my story (that's my story)
No I ain't got a witness and I can't prove it
But that's my story and I'm stickin' to it
Well I got that deer in the headlights look
She read my face like the cover of a book
She said don't expect me to believe all that static
Cause just last week I threw that hammock in the attic
My skin got so thin you could see right through it
I said that's my story and I'm stickin' to it
and so on, and so on....
Lizz Holmans
Follett <AFol...@webtv.net> writes
>
>The phrase has certainly been around for a while; if the hallucinations
>aren't starting again, I seem to recall it occurring somewhere in rather
>early P.G. Wodehouse -- perhaps one of the Ukridge stories? So, if Art
>Donovan really did say this, he was most likely simply quoting a
>déracinée punchline, along the lines of "that's all she wrote."
And of course there's the variation used by Stan Laurel in 'Sons of the
Desert' : That's my story and I'm stuck with it.
Lizz 'Honolulu Baby, where'd you get those lies?' Holmans
--
Lizz Holmans
jerryG
jsch...@qis.net wrote:
<snip>
>
> Woman says, "We got rid of that couch last year."
>
<snip>
That's what our local news-anchor signs off with every evening.
jerry "and that's the way it is" G
--
The paradoxical passion of the Reason thus comes repeatedly
into collision with the Unknown, which does indeed exist,
but is unknown, and insofar does not exist. Soren Kierkegaard
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Before you buy.
charles bishop
AFol...@webtv.net (Alan Follett) wrote:
> jsch...@qis.net (JoAnne=A0Schmitz) wrote:
>
> > If you've heard the story, or the joke, you
> > recognize the above punch line.
[snip[snip]]
>
> > Anyone know of other people it's been
> > attributed to? Any good evidence anyone
> > really said it?
>
> The phrase has certainly been around for a while; if the hallucinations
> aren't starting again, I seem to recall it occurring somewhere in rather
> early P.G. Wodehouse -- perhaps one of the Ukridge stories? So, if Art
> Donovan really did say this, he was most likely simply quoting a
> d=E9racin=E9e punchline, along the lines of "that's all she wrote."
>
> Alan "Paging Charles Bishop!" Follett
You rang, sir? I don't recall it in PGW, but it could be because it blends
in there. I don't think it was original with him. Is it likely to be
referenced it Brewer's or the like?
Charles, applying for a grant to enable me to read the entire works of PGW
to find out if it's in there, Bishop
Lee Rudolph
>The phrase has certainly been around for a while; if the hallucinations
>aren't starting again, I seem to recall it occurring somewhere in rather
>early P.G. Wodehouse -- perhaps one of the Ukridge stories?
While we're waiting for the Wodehouse Research Bureau to come up
with some results, I'll offer you this bit of dialogue form
_The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe_ by Erle Stanley Gardner
(1938; p. 57 of the Pocket Books edition, printed March 1946):
"That's your story," Golding said. "I've told mine
and I'm sticking to it."
Lee "the butler did *not* do it, in this case" Rudolph
Pekka P. Pirinen
>
> Anyone know of other people it's been attributed to?
This story was also used in a 1994 country hit by Collin Raye, called,
funnily enough, "That's My Story", written by Lee Roy Parnell and Tony
Haselden <URL:http://collin-raye.com/themusic/extremes.html>:
Well I got that deer in the headlights look
She read my face like the cover of a book
She said don't expect me to believe all that static
Cause just last week I threw that hammock in the attic
My skin got so thin you could see right through it
I said that's my story and I'm stickin' to it
I think it was an original song for that album. I can't find anything
on where Parnell and Haselden heard the story.
--
Pekka P. Pirinen
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
- Steve Smith <sgs_grebyn.com>