Tom Spence

Out of the Box 15 Let's Go Shopping See if you can identify these companies and stores that either are or were once were nationally prominent.   Each has a clue and the company's initials.   Here's a sample: Roundabout metropolitan journey:   CC Circuit City Shakin Bacon:   PW Playthings identity:   TRU Domicile Station:   HD Better than better purchase:   BB No nights out:   DI Sheep's Value:   W Construction Quadrilateral:   BS July 4 th accommodations:   HI Charred venison:   S & R Alabama guardians:   MW Painful vehicle bailment:   HR a C Super small, hardly hard:   M Don't give up too soon, but when you can't wait any longer:  Follow this link .

We have a colorful language that includes idioms and phrases that make sense only in a narrow context.  While these aren't quite oxymorons; there is a strange sounding relationship between the object and its material modifier.  Consider the clue and then unscramble the anagram.  Have fun. Clue                              Anagram                                  Answer Skeet                           EGO PLIANCY:                    Clay Pigeon Kaw-Liga                    ADD ONION WINE:            Heavy on the gas        TEA OF OLD:                                    SCUBA ancestor        LONG I RUN:                        Error free fielder         OLD GG LOVE:                    Picnic ware                 A RANCH PIPE:                   More picnic ware        STRAW LEVIS REPLICA:  Drink enabler              PIG'S CLASS SLATE:           Wood smoother           DRAPE SPAN:                      Political boundary      AN IRONIC RUT:      Foll

I have published this in many places, but thought now would be a good time to put it forth once more. GRUNT A few years ago, Jeff Foxworthy had some fun with a cultural background he simply classified as redneck.  Having spent 20 years in the Marine  Infantry, I offer a similar perspective on that calling simply know as grunt . You might be a grunt if… You can't make sense of any of the abbreviations used by the New York  Stock Exchange, but know by heart the trading value of every component of a C-Ration  or MRE . When buying a new house, your first examine fields of fire and dead space in the front yard. Within two hours of moving into a new home, you post a fire plan sketch in the kitchen, master bedroom, and forward one to the commanding officer of your new duty station. During a chance encounter with homeless people, you find yourself leading the discussion on the insulation value of cardboard. You still carry a John Wayne  (P-38) around y

Author Tom Spence to sign books at the Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home Retired  Marine   Corps  officer,  pastor , and western Oklahoma’s most prolific author  Tom Spence  will be at the Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home on Friday, 17 August 2018 for a book signing from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the campus library. Tom will have several of his titles, but the featured book will be  Throw Away Kids:  Are we concerned enough to get involved? Tom  will also feature a good down home baseball story for the children— Tough Day at the Plate .  Tom’s books will be available for a  donation  to the Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home.  For those already interested, his books may be viewed at this author page at Amazon.com . Tom, Just who are you to talk about some else's children? That's a fair question. I don't like people or organizations or the government messing around with the inner wor

Out of the Box 1:  Only the Beginning The Answers WAIT!  If you just happened upon this post, first follow this link to the brain teaser. 10        A in the B of R             Amendments in the Bill of Rights 2          M for SS             Mules for Sister Sarah 2          RD in a YW             Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood 12        AM             Angry Men 52        W in a Y             Weeks in a Year 300      P in a PG             Pins in a Perfect Game 366      D in a LY             Days in a Leap Year 2          DD in DJ             Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy 4          S in a Y             Seasons in a Year 2          S of R in a B of KRB             Scoops of Raisins in a Box of Kellogg's Raisin Bran

Retired Marine Corps officer, pastor , and western Oklahoma’s most prolific author Tom Spence will be at the Cumberland Presbyterian Childrens Home  on Friday, 17 August 2018 for a book signing from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the campus library. Tom will have several of his titles, but the featured book will be Throw Away Kids:  Are we concerned enough to get involved? Tom will also feature a good down home baseball story for the children— Tough Day at the Plate .  Tom’s books will be available for a donation to the Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home. For those already interested, his books may be viewed at this author page at Amazon.com . Tom Spence Curriculum vitae Tom Spence is a retired United States Marine Corps officer.  He served in command and staff positions in all 4 Marine Divisions, at Marine Corps Schools in Quantico Virginia as both student and instructor, as a series commander at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and as a program manager for Ma