Cal.E.'s Korner

C.: Hey, d.c., your short story, MUDER OR MERCY? Got a lot of views. I’m not feeling it today, so I was wondering if you had produced any ideas for new stories.

d.: As a matter of fact, I have. I’m working on a screen play now called, “Harry Potty Mouth.” It’s about an adolescent who uses profanity to get his way.

C.: And that’s different from rea life how?

d.: Well…I didn’t say that it was a fantasy script, but I see your point. Why don’t you try to produce some ideas? I did entrust the writing and producing of our blog to you if I remember correctly.

C.: Yes, you did. Let me think…How about Frontier Gambler?

d.: What’s the premise?

C.: I understand that, at the genesis of this country, there were quite a few men who would travel around to different places and gamble. The thinking was that once they had been identified in one place, no one would want to gamble against them if they were successful. Most people thought that they were more dishonest than lucky, though.

d.: Okay, but that story was told in the Kenny Rogers’ movie called “the Gambler.”

C.: True, but this will combine the aspects of that movie with the  legends of such honored frontiersmen as Davey Crocket and Daniel Boone.

d.: So, you think Davey Crocket may have been playing a hand of Texas Hold’em when he was killed at the Alamo, and that’s why the Alamo fell the Santa Anta’s troops?

Because the men were playing cards and unaware of what was going on?

That’s contradictory to what most history scholars think caused the fall of the Alamo. Many put the blame on Sam Houston and his troops for delaying their support.

C.: Then why are so many things in Texas named after Sam Houston?

d.: From what I understand, Houston didn’t like the Texian army he was assembling. It took a lot of training to whip these raw recruits into effective soldiers. As a result, Houston had ordered Jim Boie and his troops to abandon the Alamo, but not everyone respected Houston’s command. That may be why Houston didn’t send troops to the Alamo in time to defeat Santa Ana and his army. Instead, his troops retreated and then defeated Santa Ana at the battle of San Jacinto.

C.: Where you went to nursing school?

Why did they build a college on a former battle ground?

d.: No, it’s just that some people thought that was so significant that they named buildings and other things for important, historical happenings…

C.: Like the San Jacinto River?

d.: No, I think that river had already been named before that battle…

C.: And your old nursing school is on the banks of that river, right? And you could just take a paddle boat down the river from where you live and avaoid al the infamous Houston Traffic?

d.: Well…no.

C.: Well, there is a San Jacinto county in Texas. Is that where your old college is located?

d.: No, it’s in Houston, in Harris County.

C.: So, why is the school named San Jacinto College?

d.: IDK Cal.E. I suppose it was a cool sounding name.

C.: Hmm…is that why you named this blog for me, because “Cal.E.’s Korner sounded better than “d.c.’s drivel’? And now, you’re telling me to write the script for MY blog when it was, in fact, you who started it?

d.: Er…That; s all the time we have for today, folks. That’s the end of this cat ta(i)le.

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