Title: Uncle Al's geezer salad : a mixed bag of reports on overlong repair projects, smart remarks from dogs, and a whole lot of one man's decline into mental cottage cheese /
Authors: Sicherman, Al.
Publisher: Syren Book Company,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Do-it-yourself work Humor.; Dwellings Maintenance and repair Humor.; Home economics Humor.; American wit and humor.
Abstract: For close to 20 years, Al Sicherman wrote a hugely popular column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Here he offers an assortment of those delightfully entertaining reports: the solution to the mystery of underwear in the gutter; tales of household and automotive repairs gone horribly wrong; observations on "increasing geezerification" and much more.
Contents: Speak, Lucky! Or, on second thought -- A doubly bang-up day -- Up a tree for Christmas -- On the cutting edge of economics -- What a tangled web we weave -- How much is in the glass? -- Voyager's message to the stars -- The joke that never fails -- Underneath it all, a loss -- Credit where credit is due -- One man, two cars -- Outsourcing's circle of cutbacks -- Floored by flooring -- A waltz in two flats -- Looking for closure -- Strking a lucky bargain -- The struggle to embrace change -- Martian to a different drummer -- Getting older in multiple ways -- Funnel vision -- Buns not found in the oven -- It's all dog food -- Aspiring to be a big loser -- Top down in the 8-track lane -- How to sink a vacation -- Waiting for the perfect moment -- Losing the way to the will -- Rollin' in the flivver -- Not etching to please -- Soap is too soon parted -- Leapfrog revisited -- Americans sort-of in Paris -- What lane is this again? Oh, memory! -- Hard charging into the future --^