Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Zundfogel and Cub Driver, thanx for collecting Lawdog's stories.
Lawdog, thanx most of all for telling them.
Here's hoping that someday you finish the tale of The Pink Gorilla. But I can wait. (And, IMHO, you will NEVER top the story of The Python. I wish your mother had met my mother. Heck, I wish your father had met my father. Double heck--I wish I'd known you as a kid.)
Regarding your writing, there is an important discovery to be shared here with the world. To wit: THE SPIRIT OF MARK TWAIN HAS NOT BEEN LOST TO AMERICA!!
Which sage once observed that, "The difference between the right word, and the almost right word, is the difference between the lightning, and the lightning bug."
Keep pickin' out them lightnings, Sir!