Brother Otis Drops Knowledge

Brother Otis came to visit me today, and to drop some knowledge. Here is what he said...

"This is my pin of a German 8mm, equivalent to the American Howitzer. They call them earth-shakers in Germany because they’re so destructive. That’s what men do, they destroy things and rebuild them, that’s what we always do. That’s why the extra-terrestrials came down to see what we’re doing. They have their own opinion about it. That’s why the Russians are working with us on the space station Mir."

"I be seein’ on TV that there are rich people, poor people, middle class, blue collar, white collar. A man’s got to take what he has and carve a niche for himself in this world. That’s what I try to do."

"I decided that if the Americans would not accept me as a fighter pilot, I’d just train myself to be a fighter pilot. I’ll probably get shot down for being over some other country’s airspace."

"I wash my hair with baby shampoo, try to calm down some of the strays, then I put Vitalis on it. I stopped using Afro-Sheen, I didn’t like the way it made me feel, so I use that hair tonic, Vitalis. It makes my hair feel slick like an Italian’s. You look like you could be Russian, Cheryl. Can you speak Russian?"

"My daddy was stationed in Baltimore in the Navy, but he got to go out to the ocean and see them otters. You know otters? They be like beavers, but they slickier than that, they just slide through the water."

"When I was a boy, I attempted to dam up a river, but when I came home from school, the dirt had wiped out my work. That’s how I learned that I could not dam up a river, leastways the way I was doin’ it, with a shovel."