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Click hereKarma smiled and clapped her hands. 'Nailed it', she thought.
Now, lighten up. I have two jokes.
The first is courtesy of my 8-year-old granddaughter.
What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
A pouch potato. Heh, heh, heh. Oh, come on.
Okay, my joke. How can you tell the difference between a fort and a fortress??
Simple. A fortress has breastworks. Old guy humor. If you don't get it, have a MATURE gentleman explain it to you.
As always, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. Happy Halloween.
The BEAR
P.S. One more thing. Not to self-promote, but I posted a piece in "Reviews and Essays", entitled "Karma". It got very good reviews, not like in "Loving Wives", but only 5 people read it. Not much traffic. I recommend it to my readers out there. (Not necessarily my fans, but you know who you are). I would appreciate any additional comments. Merci. The BEAR
While 2000 acres is a sizable parcel, who has a 27,000,000.00 dollar mortgage?
Very good story, coming from a rural background in Australia.
I get your joke about the kangaroo Lizzie
Great story! Even though the guy is rather dense, he has a good heart and ya just gotta love him!
It turns out that only one ticket was sold for Saturday's drawing.
You appear to be missing a word in this sentence, a rather important word.
It turns out that only one WINNING ticket was sold for Saturday's drawing.
Great story Bear. You’re definitely at the top of your game. Now turn another great Kenny Rogers song, Ruby, into a story.
WONDERFUL, 10 stars!! Everybody got theirs. Matt not only got money, he made sure the people he loved were taken care of, the kids got a real mommy that loved them, Matt got a real wife, and that wife loved her kids. Lucille got hers, too, the old slut still having to sell herself!
lol Author needs to go back to school for some additional math lessons. lol Somehow MC ended up with more money after paying off farm debt.
I enjoyed the story. Thanks. It is your world so all the rules are yours. In this world - the farmland seems a little over-valued (other than if it is in New Jersey or California and apparently some parts of North Dakota) and even then, with a 27 million dollar debt, there is no estate to split up.
Excellent story Backer, but you’re clearly no
high (or even low) finance guy; so, a couple bits: (1) investment bankers don’t invest individual’s money for them — that’s what brokers and financial advisors do. Investment bankers raise capital (money) for organizations, mostly corporations, in the public equity and bond markets; (2) no finance person worth their salt would recommend paying 37 percent in taxes — 13% more than is currently due)— a year in advance, that is before the gov claims the higher marginal rate. That’s leaving $1m on the table for the gov’t to just scoop up; keep it and get your own gain, which here would be about $1m (7% annual return).
Yeah, not bad. That stupid kept going thru my head tho.
That really annoyed me.
Look forward to your next yarn.
Not your best, quite boring, and why do writers on this site have eneryone fainting?
Well, Cumminginsider you don't live in Texas, do you? The State Highway Authority decides they want your land excise right of eminent domain, and take what they want. You lose. And he wanted the custody, so it was a good deal. As to the land on either side being worth a fortune, only if you have access to the highway. The State has a nasty way of condemning the land to make it worthless, so they can have what they want. Thank you, Gov. Abbott. Sorry, friend.
The BEAR
A nice little walk in fantasy land, thanks. The only criticism I have is the shift from first to third person perspective several times. The story should probably have all been third person. That said, an okay little story.
Not even entertaining.
A complete waste of time as it is so unrealistic.
If you are massively in debt, you DON'T pay out in a divorce, you divide the debt.
If you own a 2,000-acre farm and the state runs a highway thru it, you get compensated by the state and literally EVERY acre of land near that highway is worth a lot more money than it being just farmland.
Hint: The state would not be needing and taking that whole 2,000-acre farm, either.
I couldn't make it past page one.
Dumb, and boring. Stick to what you know. Or practice more, this was just lame.
A GREAT tale! Such a outstanding publication! A pearl published in a sea of trash and garbage. Perhaps you should mentor some of the loser writers! Thanks you for this piece.
Still reading, but wait. A $27 million dollar mortgage on a farm owned by a dirt poor farmer? That would be tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly payments. Something wrong here...
JPB
Very enjoyable story. Loved this line “ and then his dog died. (I figured the poor guy didn't have enough grief in his life.)” that was great. Thanks for writing!
"she cut him off entirely. Two and a half years." - She can't fuck him for fear of getting pregnant, but she can fuck other guys? She's obviously using birth control, so why not with her husband?
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"My legal team paid off the loans on the farm-$27,675,000" - He had loans over $27 million?!
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$97,046,504.76 minus $27,675,000 minus $231,000 equals $69, 140,504.76 so how does he have $70,926,800?
Would a South African understand the fortress joke? I hear that Texas jokes are much bigger there than here...
Chiefs loosing to Denver, very funny. You took a 50-50 shot on that and lost.
Cut to the little old homeless woman who wonders around town pushing her shopping cart full of her life’s possessions. The only words she ever mumbles are “what did I do with that lottery ticket?”
Lighten up, it made me smile!!!!!!
Feel good predictable story, but it made me feel good. Missed the PA Cash 5 400k lottery by one number…The last one drawn. So feeling good reading this was a good thing. Got 200.00. Yikes