Jerry Clower

[LDRH]

If anybody else is interested in him, I would like to know. Thank You!
LDRH

[swe...@slip.net]

Not sure what you mean by "interested", but I am a fan.

[Michael Shane]

In article <3pb0uh$6...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> ld...@aol.com (LDRH) writes:
>From: ld...@aol.com (LDRH)
>Subject: Jerry Clower
>Date: 16 May 1995 16:12:01 -0400

>If anybody else is interested in him, I would like to know. Thank You!
>LDRH

Hi LDRH
Woooohh Catch that Thaaaanggg...

I love Jerry. When i was younger and a sales man i had customers who would
not give me an order till i told em a Ledbetter joke.
What is your Favorite Jerry joke ?

[LDRH]

I would like to know opinions, good and bad, about Mr. Clower and his
work.
LDRH

[Dan]

I, too, like Mr. Clower. My favorite Jerry Clower story is the one
of the Professor and the Chauffeur (I never could spell that damn
word, but I never use it enough to worry about it!)

I know he started his career as a "safety engineer" for some
agricultural company in Miss. Does anyone know if he still does
personal appearances, motivational type speeches, conventions, etc?

--
--If I'm not here, I must be out giraffe hunting. Dan

[Kenneth Riddle]

whooooooooooooooooo! He's the funniest thang since Marcel rurnt
the byeeer joint!! Nice man ,too. I met him in Cookeville
Tennessee a few years back.

Ken

[Michael Shane]

In article <xmxe7h1....@delphi.com> Kenneth Riddle <kenr...@delphi.com> writes:
>From: Kenneth Riddle <kenr...@delphi.com>
>Subject: Re: Jerry Clower
>Date: Sun, 21 May 95 19:21:41 -0500

Tell me about that

[Randy Turney]

In article kenr...@delphi.com, Kenneth Riddle <kenr...@delphi.com> writes:
:whooooooooooooooooo! He's the funniest thang since Marcel rurnt

:the byeeer joint!! Nice man ,too. I met him in Cookeville
:Tennessee a few years back.
:
:Ken

Anyone remember the story where somebody was having dinner
with a large family and no one would reach for the last
piece of chicken. Then the lights went out and there was
a loud scream - it seems he reached for the chicken
but everyone else reached with a fork. How does that
story go exactly?? Damn funny.

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[Peter Shenkin]

Somebody -- I forget who -- wrote:
> What is your Favorite Jerry joke ?

The one about the general store owner who was so holy that he
never rung up a sale on the cash register without first quoting
a verse from the bible.

All the old codgers playing cards in the store would stop and try
to figure out what verse he was going to quote next. For instance,
when a child came in and bought a present for his mama, the owner
said, "Honah thy fathah and mothah."

Well, if you know the story, I don't have to finish it. If you
don't know it, you ought to buy the record....

-P.

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[John Lupton]

In article <3pt7q2$p...@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> she...@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>From: she...@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
>Subject: Re: Jerry Clower
>Date: 23 May 1995 17:59:30 GMT

>Somebody -- I forget who -- wrote:
>> What is your Favorite Jerry joke ?

>The one about the general store owner who was so holy that he
>never rung up a sale on the cash register without first quoting
>a verse from the bible.

I'm kinda partial myself to the story about huntin' possums with Marcel and
flaggin' down the freight to ask the engineer if he wants to buy one...

I guess you have to hear it.

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[LDRH]

His 29th album will be out later this year, and he is starring (his debut)
in "Get Serious" with Ray Stevens.

You ought to try getting some of his books:

Stories From Home (which I have and wouldnt trade for anything)
Ain't God Good
Let The Hammer Down
Life Everlaughter

My favorite stories are any about Clovis and Marcel, and the ones about
Amercia.
But probably right now my favorite is the one about Mr. John Barron the
tree climber who climbed up a tree to get a coon, but it wasnt a coon , it
was a lynx. Now that was funny!

LDRH

[Michael Shane]

In article <3pufgl$b...@news.duke.edu> jc...@acpub.duke.edu (James C. H. Lee) writes:

>Share the stories y'all! I hate it when I only get a piece of a story
>to churn my curiosity! I know Jerry's one of the greatest humorists, but
>I have never heard his stories.

Ok james ill give it a try ,but remember i AINT JERRY.

Well folks the other day Marcell and Eugene went to the
unemployment office. they didnt want to they didnt like handouts, but after
all they had worked all those years paying into it So why not.

The interviewer asks Marcell to step into his office,and asks him
," marcell what do you do for a Living ? " marcell replied im a PILOT.
The Interviewer said "why heck boy you dont need unemployment ,il
have you a job in the Morning," Marcell was happy as could be and told Eugene
"he said i was a skilled worker a Pilot ,and he would have me working in no
time. Eugene was called into the office.

the man said Eugene what do you do for a living ? He said im a PULP
Wood Cutter.. the man said yep you need unemployment. Eugene stood up and
said i dont under stand ,you told my friend he would be back to work in the
morning, SIr i dont want unemployment i want work

the told eugene "son marcell has a skilled ocupation , he is in
demand.

Eugene said You are right sir marcell is skilled and he is
the very best at what he does. But sir i have to CUT THE WOOD, Before
he can

P I L E I T

[James C. H. Lee]

Share the stories y'all! I hate it when I only get a piece of a story
to churn my curiosity! I know Jerry's one of the greatest humorists, but
I have never heard his stories.

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[LDRH]

Mr. Clower still makes almost 200 dates a year. He also has two VHS tapes
out.

THE LAST PIECE OF CHICKEN

"If you ask an adult old as I am, what growed up in the country, he'll
tell you we were taught some manners when we were younguns. We had
manners, I'll tell you now. Never, ever, would you be caught taking the
last piece of chicken off the plate, or the last bisicuit. Now you'd sit
there and want it some kind of bad, but you knowed better than to take it
off the plate.
I finished supper one evening and went over to the Ledbetter house,
and they was eating supper. They was all sitting around the table there:
Marcel and Claude and Newgene and Aunt Pet Ledbetter. Well, they was all
sitting around the table, and there was one piece of chicken left right in
the middle of the platter. All of them was a-sitting there looking at it.
A wind come up and blowed the lamp out, and you could hear Uncle
Versie scream just like lightning had struck him.
Aunt Pet jumped up and finally got the lamp lit, and there was five
forks sticking in the back of Uncle Versie's hand."
LDRH

[LDRH]

HITLER ON THE FRONT PORCH

"Now , you got to be real country to understand what I'm about to tell
you. Marcel Ledbetter didn't register for the draft, and the FBI come
after him.
Uncle Versie said,"What y'all want with Marcel?"
They said, "He didn't register for the draft."
Uncle Versie said,"He ain't about to register for it."
""Well, there's a war going on and he's supposed to fight."
Uncle Versie said,"That don't make no difference. He ain't gonna fight
cause y'all stupid. I hear one man started all this fight-named Hitler.
And why y'all don't just kill him and stop it, I'll never know. If it was
a bunch of folks after us, it'd be different. But Hitler, they tell me,
can control it and y'all ought to go kill him."
They said,"Well Mr. Ledbetter, they can't get to him."
He said,"Don't lie to me. They can stand at the end of his front porch
about bedtime, he's got to come out there some time."

These are out of the Stories From Home book .

LDRH

[Michael Shane]

!)

>I know he started his career as a "safety engineer" for some
>agricultural company in Miss. Does anyone know if he still does
>personal appearances, motivational type speeches, conventions, etc?

>--
>--If I'm not here, I must be out giraffe hunting. Dan

LDRH wrote to me and stated that he still does 200 shows
and has 2 videos out.

[LDRH]

For those interested in when he's coming to your area, you can call Joanie
at (601)684-8130. She is his secretary and has tour dates and all. Don't
be suprised when she answers the phone "tax office". Boy, I love small
towns!

There is no official fan club, so if you need anything your best bet is to
talk to this sweet lady.
LDRH

[LDRH]

Hey, how about a friendly little wager, Dan? I say he started as a
fertilizer salesman.
LDRH

[swe...@slip.net]

LOL!! I thought I had almost all of Jerry's tapes..but I haven't heard that story. Thanks for sharing! :)

BTW..has anyone heard of Carl Hurley? He is another country humorist.