Oklahoma.

Stone’s Throw Dinner Theatre will present Rodgers & Hammerstein’s "Oklahoma". Set in a Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love’s journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!

Friday & Saturday August 13-15 DESSERT ONLY performances- doors open at 7:00pm, show begins at 7:30pm.

Sunday August 15-Doors open at 1:30pm; show begins at 2:00pm.

August 19-22 and August 26-29, times will be Thursday-Saturday doors open at 6:00pm, dinner at 6:30pm and show begins at 7:30pm. For Sunday performances, doors open at 12:30pm, dinner at 1:00pm with show beginning at 2:00pm. 358-9665

I see where they’re sayin’ that usin’ a cell phone too much makes ya prone to have ringin’ in your ears.

Another study says that parents that spend a lotta time on facebook or emailin’ or textin’ all the time are takin’ quality time away from their kids.

Who gets paid to come up with this stuff? Doin’ anything in excess can cause problems of some sort.

As Mark Twain said: "First, girls, don’t smoke--that is, don’t smoke to excess. I never smoke to excess--that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Second, don’t drink--that is, don’t drink to excess.

Third, don’t marry--I mean, to excess."

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Dear Tom and Ray:

All of the cheapest cars these days seem to have drum brakes on the rear instead of disc brakes. But drum brakes have more parts than disc brakes, and are much harder to assemble (I know from experience). You’d think that would add assembly-line costs and that it would be cheaper to put the better disc brakes on the cheapo econo-cars. What’s up with that, guys? What am I not understanding? - Barnaby

Tom: The missing element is the parking brake, Barnaby.

Ray: Right. A drum brake also can serve as a parking brake. So you’re essentially getting two for one.

Tom: Disc brakes make lousy parking brakes. So if you put disc brakes on all four wheels, you then have to add two additional, separate drum brakes on the rear wheels to serve as parking brakes.

Ray: Or you have to add a very expensive, and failure-prone, component to the rear disc-brake calipers to make them work as parking brakes.

Tom: But drum brakes naturally make good parking brakes, because they have a binding, or self-wrapping, action (that’s also what makes them lock up, and makes them less desirable than disc brakes for stopping the car.

Ray: So if you sue drum brakes in the rear to stop the car, you already have your parking brake, and you save money that way.