[Scoutmaster]

I just like to look at things from different angles.

Yes, you do. And that's not a bad thing - my best friend in college used to tell me she'd yet to see the sheet music for the drummer I marched to (he said, ending his sentence with a preposition).

"Lincoln" is an ongoing thing with the senior high youth and me. One of the church families is heavily (heavily, heavily) into soccer and always sponsors a female foreign exchange student into its family of three girls. Two and a half (?) years ago, they sponsored two high school juniors from Germany. During a discussion in youth group, one of the German girls said they referred to the eldest girl in the host family as "our American cousin." I quipped "I'll bet Abe Lincoln gets a kick out of that."

I was greeted with puzzled looks from everyone except one bookworm youth who almost swallowed her gizzard laughing. After we had administered CPR, she explained the joke. Since then, any youth who finds something funny on the Internet involving Abraham Lincoln and the assassination forwards it to me, or prints it out and brings it to youth. We not learn about God, but we know all about Dr. Samuel Mudd.

[Tax-chick]

I recently read a book about the Booth family, of “John Wilkes” fame. I’ll specify it when I can get my library catalog to pull up.

[HKMk23]

yelp management is simply humorless; the entry you posted has been removed. A subsequent entry attributed to one Abraham L. of Springfield, IL remains, but has been filtered.

“The acoustics left my ears ringing and with a splitting headache. I need to return there like I need a hole in the head. That’s the last time I see “Our American Cousin” there again.”