Proselytizers Not Gobbling Up Time Anymore

Thom Sadoski of Rapid Lightning Creek Road has discovered a sure-fire way to get rid of pesky door-to-door missionaries. All you need is a knife and a turkey. A few years back, Sadoski was trying to decapitate a full-grown tom when two soul-savers happened by on their appointed rounds. The sight of a bloody man holding a knife and a twitching carcass so unnerved the proselytizers that they skedaddled. Thom hasn’t seen them since. That’ll teach them for not calling ahead.

Mr. Potatohead wows Washington

U.S. Sen. Larry Craig has made a splash on Capitol Hill since joining the GOP leadership - with “The Super Tuber.” Yep. Craig’s wiener recipe was the hit of the hill’s annual Hot Dog Lunch feed. So says the righty Washington Times. If you didn’t know it, July is National Hot Dog Month. Craig’s recipe involves a hot dog, an Idaho baking potato and mustard (for dipping). Directions: “Wash and dry potato. Rub with shortening or butter. Core out the potato center (end to end). Push hot dog through the center. Bake until potato is cooked through.” Hungry?

Lead-footed star

On “Entertainment Tonight” recently, “Dante’s Peak” star Pierce Brosnan - on location in Sandpoint, Idaho - admitted he’d been stopped four times here for speeding. (He didn’t say if he was ticketed, though.) Do you suppose he’s practicing for his next 007 chase scene? … Hauser Thoughts concluded its report of a July 10 council meeting with these intriguing lines: “Fun and excitement for the night was provided by two male neighbors on Wildwood Point Road, who will remain nameless (for now anyway). It was the most feckless, childish urinating match I’ve ever seen, all over the dozing of an unimproved public road right of way.” … I’m not sure this is tacky: A rock cruise on a Hagadone Hospitality boat Wednesday began with the Van Halen tune “Jump” - followed by the captain’s admonition to partiers not to. This only weeks after a Boundary County man jumped off a cruise boat and drowned.

Huckleberries

So what did the new Mr. and Mrs. Gomer Davis Jr. do July 13 just before Rev. John McMath pronounced them man and wife? A hula dance, naturally. They met while working aboard a Hawaiian cruise ship. Gomer pulled the wedding hula off, too - the only man I know who could have. … Update on the Coeur d’Alene Church League softbrawl game between the Nazarenes and the Assembly of God (Huckleberries, July 22): The league suspended three combatants for a game - two Nazarenes and one Assembly player. … The bumperstinker on a new sky-blue Chevy pickup adds nothing to the debate: “Wilderness: Land of No Use.” … Hmmm. The top prize in a Nature Conservancy North Idaho benefit? A 1996 Tige ski boat, of course. Can’t you just see yourself zigzagging across idyllic Cougar Bay in it? … What’s that background noise the Huckleberry Hound hears during weekend and holiday dispatches from the Bonner County Sheriff’s Department? “Mommy, mommy”? Is Sheriff Chip running a day-care center up there? … The Huckleberry Hound also hears Bonner County gendarmes ran a license check Wednesday on a 19-foot “Baja,” registered to the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife. Sounds like someone’s a long ways from home with state property. … Mike Murray’s dog, Bear, did a wonderful job as ring bearer Saturday at his master’s wedding in the Priest Lake woods to S-R staffer Susan Drumheller. Congrats to all three.

Parting shot

Those neo-Nazis on parade downtown July 19 had trouble communicating where they wanted their downed van taken. A goose-stepper with a thick accent told a wrecker driver to haul it to “Raw Sewers.” The driver, of course, wondered why anyone would want his vehicle parked at the sewer plant. Even a Sieg Heiler. Finally, he realized Col. Klink wanted the clunker moved to “Rosauers.” Gesundheit.

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