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Al Batt: Feel free to sing along even if you’re not in the shower
“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime you’ll find. You get what you ...
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Al Batt: A Bigfoot saw me but nobody believes him
My name is Batt. I’m a private investigator.
Opinion
Al Batt: He didn’t know but he came here to sic ‘em
I’m trapped between two oceans. I often travel by automobile and when I do, I’m partial to roads. There ...
Columnists
Al Batt: Thinking of dead nettle while shopping the tall shelves
It might have been the best day in the history of the world.
Opinion
Al Batt: The vexatious fly nailed the screen test that time
It was the time of the screen door slams. I was trying to spell Czechoslovakia. I’d found a lucky ...
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Al Batt: I can’t part with my emotional support clutter
I can summarize the book in a single sentence. Get rid of things that no longer have a ...
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Al Batt: A lane was closed to ease the congestion out there
A turtle passed me. It was a bafflement.
Opinion
Al Batt: We take odd things and make them our things
Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt Why are the cardinals the last birds to leave the bird ...
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Al Batt: What did you learn or forget during school today?
I knew it was coming. It was an after-school special.
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Al Batt: By jingles, Oscar, Tony says they’re grrrrrrrrrreat!
I live near a phone. Just as most everyone does.
Opinion
Al Batt: The fair is where any problem can be solved with onion rings
It’s too hot, too humid, too rainy, too cramped. Too bad. Like moths to a lightbulb, we are drawn ...
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Al Batt: Would you like some flies with your toilet paper?
Fortunately, there is an improvisation exercise using fortunately/unfortunately stories. Participants take turns articulating one sentence at a time ...
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Al Batt: I’m not a lawn whisperer nor a lawn enforcement officer
Have you ever wondered how many people collect matchbooks?
Opinion
Al Batt: Tote that bag or go to tote bag camp somewhere
Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt The weather was close. That’s how my mother would have described ...
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Al Batt: Like men’s body spray, the fetid smell lingered
Cheap gas! I hit the brakes and swerved off the road because a gas station, long out of ...
