- By Jim Evans
- Entertainment
SMART TALK
by Dr. Winton "Windy" Prolix
A LITTLE WAYS: At the Center for English as a First Language, we often gather a the Fowler Lounge Fridays after work. We like to do this because we can unwind right on Center grounds, and we dislike this because we don't get out of Underbelly.
Staying in town means we see the commercials for Johnson's Used Car's: "This is Honest Al Johnson sayin' Y'all come on in to Johnson's Used Car's, just a little ways down from the Hotel Inn, rot here'n Underbelly, Texas."
This after a week of asking patients if they wouldn't say Just a short whiles, or Get out of my ways, or Where there's a will, there's a ways, why, oh why DO they say something's a long ways off?
And we've invited Al to come to come in for treatment, free of charge. His answer? "I talk as good as anybody anywheres around here. Shoot, I talk as good as my cousin Hubert Johnson, and he's the arts and gun show critic for the dadgum Underbelly Prerecorder. 'Sides, if they buy cars off me anyways, I could care less."
You can see why our staff psychologist, Dr. Viva Palaver, has a full schedule.