Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.
I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.
We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular. ' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas. ' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau. ' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
People always ask my mom what I did as a kid. My mom says, "He wasn't a bad kid. He was never an unruly kid, always listened and obeyed. "
I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.
There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars. "
I'm always wearing a Nebraska hat. Most of the time I'm wearing something that's got a Husker something on it. I make sure I have it on TV but I have it regularly.
To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.
My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Boom Bang a Bang was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didnt relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didnt want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.