Don't Bend over in the Garden Granny: You Know Them Taters Got Eyes

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g. Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night), expanded versions of his stand-up comedy routines (I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962), and the autobiographical If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. There is no way this book would sell today, which added to the humor, if you can get past the offensiveness of it. He tells about his several honeymoons, how men are raging hormones as teenagers (and girls say no) and trying to avoid sex in their 40s when their wives are raring to go, and even ways to deal with not getting sex when you want it among other things. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. If you weren't around during a very specific point in American history (the late 80's, when Reaganomics was the rage and "Full House" was the raunchiest thing on TV) and in a specific place (the South), you've probably never heard of, nor would you care to hear of Lewis Grizzard.

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. He wrote essays full of perceptive and funny insight into what makes people tick, or at least amusement that he didn't understand certain things, such as Dr. And very, very occasionally, it manages to be a bit more than a late-80s cultural artifact and get a little funny. It would probably appeal to those who are old enough to remember 1980 so they can understand some of the references.Writing about wives, lovers and friends, Grizzard sets out to prove that sex is not dirty but hilarious--and he succeeds. As someone who previously knew not to bend over in the garden, and that them taters (boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew) do indeed have eyes, the instructional words of the title were lost to me.

To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Thought a quick throw back to the great southern philosopher Lewis Grizzard would be nice looking at this latest revelation.Lewis Grizzard can always be counted on for a laugh and this book all about sex was no exception, though I have to say that the best part is the title. The wonderful thing about this book is that it does not make the reader feel awkward with language that may be deemed extreme by some people. Well that, and the list of terms he promised not to use -- love muscle, heaving orbs, tunnel of lust, etc.

I haven't heard some of these jokes since I was a kid, and it was nice to hear some polite "raunchy" humor again. Lewis Grizzard’s Don’t Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes is a book with no true purpose. He has lots of books and today I’m stopping at two but I’ll be reading all of them I can get my hands on. Indeed, during his lifetime, Lewis Grizzard heard himself described as "this generation's Mark Twain," "one of the foremost humorists in the country" and "a Faulkner for plain folks" by the national press. I think I learned a lot about men, especially men who became befuddled after the women's revolution of the 60s .You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. wis Grizzard has gone and done it--written a book about sex, as seen through his bespectacled, ironic squint.

The perspectives in the book, if written in language that has fallen sadly out of favor within general use, are just as valid as they were when they were first written. This book is overall a bunch of unrelated jokes about things that should not be listed in a class environment. He tells us why Junior Leaguers don't do it in groups, why Baptists won't do it standing up, and why Richard Nixon never did it, among other things.Erma Bombeck with a penis, the proto-shoggoth version of Jeff Foxworthy, Grizzard (rhymes with "his yard," not "blizzard") wrote about a dozen comedic books between 1984 and 1993, mostly about living in the South and not understanding these dad-blasted kids today. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.